Connor McDavid, who is widely considered as the best prospect in hockey since Sidney Crosby, did something earlier this week that is very unusual for a player of his caliber. He got into a fight. To make matters worse he broke his hand and will be out for up to six weeks leaving his participation at the World Juniors for Team Canada up in the air.

In his latest column, TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button wrote about his thoughts on the incident and whether McDavid should be fighting at all.

"Connor McDavid should not be fighting, ever," said Button. "A game built on warp-like speed and quickness, brilliant puckhandling abilities and a mind that processes the game at speeds only seen in Silicon Valley, should not include fisticuffs."

Button says McDavid is far too valuable as a player and is no help to his teammates when he's sidelined nursing a needless injury.

This is what We Said. Here is what You Said.

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LA Roche - It's easy to say he shouldn't have fought after the kid broke his hand. If he didn't break it, you'd all be praising him for sticking up for himself.

Drew Murphy - If he thinks he can handle his own and is willing to fight then let the kid fight simple as that. Its his choice if he wants to or not.

Michael Glazier - I agree totally. If you're going to have a player that's going to be the next Gretzky then you better trade off something so you can get a player and who will protect him by fighting and just ensuring he is not going to get any cheap shots.

Jim Goodine - Emotions run high in the game. It will happen at times and he knows that. He can't expect someone else to always jump in for him and he can't run from it. Bravo Connor for standing up for yourself!

Josh Andersen - Stars shouldn't be fighting, they should have players standing up for them. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do. He made the choice. Now he has to accept consequences.

James Rodrigues - Never. Losing him for 5 min while the other team loses anyone of lesser importance isn't a good trade off.

Brandon Aspeck - Why not? Iginla did it, Crosby did it, Lord knows that Ovi could if he wanted to at that size, so why not him?

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Patrick Larochelle ‏@crosby007 - @CraigJButton I don't know what McDavid was thinking.He should't fight.It's not part of his game..That's a bad news for Team Canada.

Morgo ‏@Morgo_82 - @CraigJButton he's young, he likely still has trouble keeping his emotions in check. Too bad he had to learn the hard way.

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Drew Martin - Life lesson for Connor.  He's a game competitor and chose to chuck the knuckles in the heat of a game.  He took a big risk and it cost him in the form of a broken hand.  In the short term it's a bad result for him, bad for his junior club and bad for Team Canada.  Hope he heals quickly and gets back out on the ice ASAP. 

The-Van - So what's he supposed to do it an opponent jumps him? Not fight back and defend himself? I know that's not what happened here, but with the way hockey is getting softer and softer, his team probably doesn't have anyone to step in and fight for him when he's getting picked on.