I am not qualified to judge what they are doing as wrong or right .....
As I understand it fighting is also penalty in Hockey. Certainly not an expert but hockey combatants get sent to the penalty "Box".
It has just always "appeared" to this viewer as if the referee's (in hockey) just monitor the ongoing fight and simply wait around to enforce the no fighting rules when the violators are done committing their violation.
Just a different philospohy from Basketball I guess.
I feel that a NHL hockey referee just watching two go at it looks strange to me.
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