There is a performative contradiction in hockey.
Hockey is a team game played in part to rehearse positive adaptation. In the rush to fight and win supposed players handicap themselves and teamplay abilities. In doing so they shield the game from this positive adaptation process which further veils any direct references to solidarity and transcendence.
This play limitation opposes player dignity and excellence. Therefore the game has a performative contradiction.
A Two way hockey as I think about it brings those deeper cultural dynamics referenced earlier into clearer intelligibility inside the game. This will afford players a more direct opportunity to overcome harsh realities. Articulating why this grappling process is important, why these dynamics are essential to any thriving hospitable humane game I will not.
The fate of hockey lies with the appetite hockey fans have for an illusion at the expense of forging truly strong characters who play together in innumerable ways. We must afford players the opportunity of choosing between the two.