1. Psychological Momentum in Hockey: Does fighting affect outcome?
Change in behaviour resulting from an event or series of events.
Affects either perceptions of competitors, or quality of performance and outcome of competition.
Positive Momentum: everything goes right
Negative Momentum: everything goes wrong

2. Momentum Shifts Momentum gained by: Momentum measured by: Scoring
Great saves
Killing a penalty
Big hits
Winning a fight
Momentum measured by:
Winning the game

3. Is fighting a rewarded tactic?

4. Visualization Questions
Following a fight, who benefits?
Leading vs. trailing team
Home vs. away
Fight winner vs. loser
What else matters?
Remaining time
Size of score differential
Particular fighters or teams