NHL - PLEASE STOP TRYING TO MAKE HOCKEY NOT HOCKEY

In this little pre-season brew-ha-ha, one thing is for certain; the NHL rules committee is getting drunk on it's own stupid power. I sorta get the goalie pad thing but don't get the over-the-glass thing. I don't understand being able to face wash someone but not get punched in the face for doing it. There definitely should be no-touch icing but instead they decide to worry about head injuries that may be related to fighting.

I'll let you watch the video before we comment on the peculiar beginnings to it.

Did you notice the way that they hugged each other at the start, tapping the other's helmets off? That's to get around a rule that gives an extra 2 minutes to 'any player that removes their helmet for the purpose of fighting'. 
-Seriously? 

It's pretty bad that most of the real fighting has gone out of the game, leaving only those lame-ass glove in the face scrums that are even more pointless and time-consuming than a WWE's time with the microphone.

But now the league has decided that any player that dares to show a modicum of personality (in one of the few avenues left available to him) they will receive an extra two minutes? Come on, NHL. Embrace your heritage, not hide from it. Not one fan ever has said "ah, what the fuck man? That guy took his helmet off to fight? That should be a penalty!"

We here at Ogieoglethorpe (so, me basically) says if someone wants to take a few extra punches to the head instead of having to dish out the extra dollars to replace a broken helmet, let'm. I get the concussion argument but really, these guys aren't out to break their hands or the other guy's heads. They are just trying to win a job, as politely as possible while punching someone. That's why they have their code.
 
The only other way this is going to go is that every enforcer that follows the code will be sitting for 7 minutes each fight if their opponent takes off their helmet and face scorn and ridicule from myself (and others) if he doesn't.  

Oh yeah, it should go without saying that it was very 'gallant' of them to take each other's helmets off before engaging in an actually pretty good tilt.