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Point Shots: The benefit of using hits instead of penalty minutes

By Jim Wilkie
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Ever since ESPN.com first offered fantasy hockey in the 1990s, I've had qualms about having penalty minutes as a category in the game. I know I'm not the only one who felt it was unnecessary to include a statistic that, more often than not, hurt a player's real team instead of helping it. But with no other way to value "toughness," I brushed it off and squeezed the most I could out of Donald Brashear and Georges Laraque for many years. Things have changed this season. Thankfully, ESPN now offe ...

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