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Fighting as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy: The American Hockey League

In: Breaking the Ice

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  • Duane W. Rockerbie

    (University of Lethbridge)

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This chapter tests the argument that fighting in minor league hockey is a profit-maximizing strategy, using the American Hockey League (AHL) as an example. It could be that hockey players in the AHL have differing motivations for aggressive play than players in the senior NHL. Players in the AHL earn much lower salaries than their NHL cousins, so being promoted to the NHL results in significant financial rewards. Some AHL players might use an aggressive style of play as the ticket to the NHL, believing that there is a role in the NHL for tough players to protect the more skilled players from intimidation by other teams. Alternatively, fighting in the AHL could be the result of owners and management encouraging aggressive, physical play to attract fans to games. This chapter attempts to determine why fighting is more commonplace in the AHL than the NHL using an econometric model.

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  • Duane W. Rockerbie, 2017. "Fighting as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy: The American Hockey League," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Bernd Frick (ed.), Breaking the Ice, pages 17-37, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-3-319-67922-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67922-8_2
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    1. Rodney Paul & Andrew Weinbach & Nick Riccardi, 2019. "Attendance in the Canadian Hockey League: The Impact of Winning, Fighting, Uncertainty of Outcome, and Weather on Junior Hockey Attendance," IJFS, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-11, February.

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