Red sweaters not responsible for black and blue players
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(PHOTO OF RYAN McKIEÏ㽶ÊÓƵN BY ANDREW DOBROWOLSKYJ)
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By Misty Harris
Postmedia News
Reporting in the journal "Social Psychological and Personality
Science", researchers say no matter how they measured, there wasn't
a shred of meaningful evidence that black or red jerseys lead to a
spike in aggressive behaviour, among current NHL players. However,
one hockey historian throws caution to the wind.
"Intimidation in the NHL used to be a much larger factor than it is
today," says Earl Zukerman of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in
Montreal. "I think if you applied the (current) study to NHL fight
data from the 1970s and earlier, you may come up with entirely
different findings, as that was arguably an era where fighting and
other roughhouse tactics were almost encouraged."