We're into the dog days of summer, and thus, the hockey schedule is less intense than usual (except for our print team, hard at work on our annual Yearbook). Free agency has more or less sorted itself out, as has arbitration. If you get a trade, you're lucky. So with that in mind, we decided to drop a special package on the website.

You've heard of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, right? Well, this is Enforcers Week on THN.com, and we've got a whole slate of articles coming in the next seven days.

Fighting is down in the NHL and well on its way to becoming extinct in major junior. You're allowed to feel however you like about that. Heck, even among our writers, there are some who are completely against fighting, some who still vouch for it, and some who fall somewhere in the middle. Enforcers Week isn't an endorsement for the future of fighting, but it is a chance to take a closer look at an aspect of the game that has captured imaginations around the world. Even to this day, those who don't know anything about hockey know that you can fight during games.

So we're here to have fun. Enforcers have an outsized role in hockey lore, whether it be the Broad Street Bullies, Bob Probert, or even Tom Wilson insurance, to name a more recent example. Not surprisingly, most of cinema's famous hockey movies have been steeped in fight culture, from Slap Shot to Youngblood to Goon (Disney's Mighty Ducks being the obvious exception).

Check in every day this week for new articles under the Enforcers Week banner, along with our usual collection of non-fighting blogs. It's time to put on the foil. Let's go.