I gotta say, I no longer get much of any joy in watching hockey fights.
When I was younger, my inner neanderthal fucking loved watching grown men on skates bareknuckle box (of course being oblivious to the long-term health impacts).
Aside from the obvious long-term health implications, the other new development is that basically everyone in the league wears a visor now. So even if you do 'land' punches, most often you're just punching a piece of hard plastic. Idiotic. And it is illegal to remove helmets before fighting and obviously you want them to protect your head.
So what's the damn point anymore? For it to be a 'fun' thing to watch, you need to get rid of visor-punching, imo. But to do that, you have to deliberately risk the health of your players for what is literally an illegal sideshow to the actual game itself.
Moral of the story, time to get rid of fighting. Or, fully embrace our neanderthalic roots and at least make it entertaining again by doing something about visors (which, for the record, is dumb, but I prefer it to the current shit)