Debates Renewed on Visors and Staged Fights Visors and fighting in hockey are in the headlines again after two prominent injuries. On Tuesday night, Rangers defenseman Marc Staal took a deflected puck to the eye while not wearing a visor. Then, on Wednesday, the Maple Leafs enforcer Frazer McLaren knocked out the Senators rookie David Dziurzynski during a staged fight 26 seconds into Toronto's 5-4 win against Ottawa. "We had a flat start last game," McLaren told reporters after the game. I was just trying to get us going early. He said he asked Dziurzynski before the game if he wanted to fight and "he said no, and so I didn't think we were going to go, and then he ended up dropping his stuff when the puck dropped." Don Cherry weighed in on the fighting debate Saturday night in his Coach's Corner segment during "Hockey Night in Canada" on CBC. "McLaren should never have done that," Cherry said. I'm telling him right now, I love the guy, but you don't do that. The code of the sport, Cherry added, holds that "when you're a super heavyweight, you don't get a kid like that." Despite the silence that fell over Air Canada Centre crowd as Dziurzynski lay motionless on the ice, Cherry proceeded to blame the news media for disliking fighting. Let′s go over again who does not like the fighting? First of all, the media does not like the fighting," he said. They get in free, and half of them wouldn't even be there if they could. There's a good meal and the whole deal. Who likes fighting? First of all, the players like fighting, the fans. Cherry went on: "Fighting is in the game. Fighting should be in the game. The Ottawa Senators announced Sunday that Dziurzynski still had symptoms of the concussion he suffered during his fight with McLaren and that he had not begun the return process. Staged fights are generally orchestrated beforehand by the players who will fight. Such fights also result when coaches send their tough guys out on the ice. Critics say the league should look at removing them. It is generally accepted that fighting resulting from an emotional event within the game is part of the sport. As for visors, the players union continues to oppose making them mandatory, and without the union's consent, no such rule is possible. The N.H.L. general managers are scheduled to meet in Toronto on March 20, and there is no word on if the topics of visors or staged fights are on the agenda.