For those with short memories, it is not even remotely unusual for award-winning National Hockey League players to have a dark side.
Some darker than others.
Eddie Shore, Terrible Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe’s famous elbows were lethal weapons. Mark Messier’s might have been carved from the same stone as Mr. Hockey’s.
Scott Stevens’ roll call of open-ice concussion victims would have gotten him suspended for life in today’s NHL, although no doubt he would have adapted to live within the rule book.
Chris Pronger? The guy had a rap sheet longer than Clyde Barrow’s.