Have you ever been to a professional hockey game?
True there is some off what you are mentioning, but there is also a tremendous amount of skill, speed, creativity, and clean body checking ( yes there is a proper way to do this ) .....
Plus it's a contact sport and the lads playing are well protected. Hockey gear today is much different than it once was. It's not that far from armor.
As far as being brutal, you could also say that about.
- American Football
- Basketball
- Baseball ( bench clearing brawls, pitchers beaning batters etc. )
- Soccer
- Insert many other professional sports here
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