Tag: NHL
Matt Cooke: The Player the System Built Vancouver drafted Matt Cooke 144th overall in 1997, a pick teams ...
Derek Boogaard: Made Into a Weapon Before He Had a Choice Derek Boogaard grew up as the son ...
Wade Belak: The First-Round Pick Who Became an Enforcer Quebec selected Wade Belak 12th overall in the 1994 ...
Most enforcers waited for trouble. Matthew Barnaby started it. Over 14 seasons, he spent 42 hours and 42 ...
Jon Cooper was never supposed to be an NHL coach. He was supposed to be in a courtroom. ...
Mike Danton made the NHL, then tried to have someone killed. The hitman was a cop wearing a ...
Todd Bertuzzi didn’t just end a man’s career over a legal hit, he exposed something the league didn’t ...
Threatening calls came to his home. His coaches knew. Teammates noticed. Reporters asked questions. The NHL looked the ...
He dropped gloves, absorbed punishment, and did the job nobody wanted but everybody needed. Then his best friend ...
This isn’t really a hockey story. It’s about what happens when we tell someone to be tough for ...
