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Time to end bloodshed in NHL playoffs

Playoff violence has become vile

By Kevin Paul Dupont

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 19, 2012

There is blood on the NHL’s hands, and that appears to be very good business, at least for the moment. Only a week into the Stanley Cup playoffs, NBC’s ratings are trending upward, and most everyone attributes the increase to the type of mayhem and anarchy that was on display Sunday between the Flyers and Penguins.

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