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The topic of fights in hockey<\/a> has been long debated, but now one professional league has decided to put an end to it.<\/p>\n

New Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) Commissioner Mario Cecchini announced a ban on fighting, starting next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The QMJHL is one of the three junior leagues in Canada.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen what the other two leagues, the Western Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League, will do in reaction to the QMJHL’s decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“We obviously have to improve on these situations and even eliminate them in some cases,” Cecchini said of fighting and hazing.<\/p>\n

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He also expressed his belief the rule change is pivotal to changing the league’s culture.<\/p>\n

“How do you make a culture change? With a lot of determination, with a lot of conviction and with a lot of precision and clarity in how you expect everyone to behave,” Cecchini said. “For me, that\u2019s going to be paramount.”<\/p>\n

Cecchini replaced Gilles Courteau, who announced his resignation earlier this month amid intense scrutiny among the province\u2019s politicians over hazing and initiations.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old Courteau announced his departure after 37 years leading the junior hockey league and just a year away from his planned 2024 retirement.<\/p>\n

The QMJHL governors<\/a> recently voted on a new rule that would penalize players involved in a fight. The players would be subject to a game misconduct. Officials did note that if one player is defending himself against an obvious aggressor, he could avoid punishment.<\/p>\n

The president of the QMJHL executive committee, Richard L\u00e9tourneau, later confirmed the league was going ahead with a fighting ban.<\/p>\n

“Yes, fights are prohibited,” L\u00e9tourneau said. “Now, the details have to be finalized. We have an expanded hockey committee made up of general managers, coaches and owners, to come up with a way to apply this rule and have it accepted by the minister and have it ratified at our June members\u2019 assembly.”<\/p>\n

In September 2020, the QMJHL changed its rule on fighting<\/a>. Violators faced a 10-minute misconduct instead of the usual five minutes for a fighting penalty. If a player was involved in three fights in a single season, he would be subject to a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n

The rule change was in response to the Quebec Minister for Education’s<\/a> threat to withhold financial aid from the league’s Quebec-based teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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