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Originally Posted by johnnyshaka
The "fear" of having a guy like Messier, who isn't really an enforcer, mess your face up because he can and doesn't give a shit what you or your "tough guy" thinks about it is why you didn't see those guys get targeted very often. Call it "respect" or "intimidation", regardless, it worked.
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Except that in the example above, if the guy doesn't care about getting his face messed up, how is this a deterrent? How far back are we going, because I still remember Scott Stevens knocking Ron Francis (and basically the Hurricanes because of it) out of the playoffs before they really started cracking down on enforcers over the last few years.