Drop the gloves gives this offering:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?columnist=frei_terry&id=2595580
I thought he made some very excellent points such as
``The true enforcer, in fact, always was more deterrent than combatant.''
and
``The true enforcer wasn't so much part of the slug-vs.-slug sideshows that make it onto the unofficial Ring Record books of the sport, as he was the guy who ... always ... was ... there.''