I think what has happened in Hockey is they have unintentionally interfered with the natural law of how shyte works. You run a guy, someone drops the gloves etc...now you run a guy, the players look up at the clock to see if there are any penalties.
Gordie Howe was one of the dirties players ever, his favorite infraction was an elbow, not driving someones head into the boards, Gordie Howe dropped the gloves often.
