No doubt lots of people find the NHL rulebook to be nothing but incomprehensible arcana. We say "two-line pass," and they hear "blah, blah, bluh." For them, promoter Darryl Wolski had the bright idea to excise all that troublesome business with the stick and puck that takes place between fights, and call what's left
Battle of the Hockey Gladiators, a pay-per-view TV event to be held this August in Minneapolis. Among the goons will be 10 former NHLers, including all-time greats like
Mike Ware (five games, one assist, 15 penalty minutes in the NHL).
Not everybody's excited in a good way. USAToday reports that Wolski "says his people have told him [the event] is 'a travesty.'" He needs to get new people.