In the words of the great British poet, Sir Michael Philip Jagger:

"You can't always get what you want,
No you can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find,
You get what you need."

So as badly as coach may want a fight to send a message, if we're down by five late in the third, I'll be abandoning strong defensive positioning for the sake of landing a crushing hit on the opposition. By body checking their star player into the middle of next week, that'll send a message just as clearly, but without resorting to fisticuffs, and/or breaking the rules and incurring the wrath of the officials.

The point being, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and a stiff open ice hit lets the other team know that tonight's lopsided loss was just a one off. In other words, the big hit was just a receipt. Our team still has a lot of 'fight' left in us, and the opposition can expect nothing less than stiff competition in any and all future games! (And that's not a prediction, that's a spoiler alert)!

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