It announced via their social media accounts on this week that they've decided to ban fighting and if a fight is to take place within a game, there will be severe punishment, with both players being ejected, similar to IIHF rules.
The QMJHL's rules for fighting, effective for the 2023-24 season, are as follows:
For safety reasons, it's understandable as to why they're doing it, but fighting will always be apart of the game of hockey. If there's a big, dangerous hit that injures a player, someone now can't come to the defence of their teammate without being ejected from the game.
It's going to be interesting to see how banning fighting will do for the league and if any other leagues across Canada and the United States follow them in the coming years.
The QMJHL has announced that fighting has been banned starting this upcoming season.
The rules now state that fighting will result in an automatic ejection with other supplemental discipline to follow.
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