Will hockey fights be a thing of the past?

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I grew up a fan of an orginal 6 team. Hockey was one of the most popular sports in America when I started watching. One of the biggest things that made hockey stand out from the rest other was that fighting was allowed. I am talking about real mono e mono tough guy stuff. Not the staged sporadic grabbing matches you see today in the NHL. The NHL is moving in a different direction now. For better or worse depending on your view. My view? I think for the worse. I think now with the league cracking down on fighting and the amounts of fights in the NHL being the lowest that they have ever been it has taken some of the passion and emotion out of hockey games. You don't have true rivalries anymore. In my opinion the last great rivalry was Detroit and Colorado. Now that was a blood fued. The hate and animosity in those games could get anyone to tune in. And oh boy were there real fights, bench clearing brawls even. Heck even the coaches were yelling at each other. You don't see that today and probably never will. Sorry to the younger generation that missed out on that or earlier era's. Yeah, you get to see skill, but rarely do you get to see fights, and I believe you will never see a great rivalry again. The NHL has changed too much. Before I go too far off topic though. With the decrease in fighting and rumors that the NHL is thinking about doing away with one of the NHL's oldest traditions, is this the end of fighting in hockey? What do you think? Do you think if it does eventually get banned do you think this will help or hurt the game?