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:".... Players in the old N. H. L.

routinely tried to injure one another, and whether or not they stood up for teammates in such instances, it got so bad that in 1959 the Rangers ’ Andy Bathgate was compelled to write an article for True magazine, headlined “ Atrocities on Ice .” As this post from the blog Fellowship of Hockey relates, Bathgate ’ s article actually named the league ’ s guiltiest parties when it came to spearing: Montreal ’ s Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson, Boston ’ s Fern Flaman, Chicago ’ s Ted Lindsay and Pierre Pilote, and Lou Fontinato from Bathgate ’ s own Rangers.

“ None of them seems to care that he ’ ll be branded as a hockey killer ,” Bathgate wrote — for which the N. H. L.

fined him and installed a rule, still in force, prohibiting players from writing articles of this nature ..."