My All-Time Tough (‘n’ Good) Team

Last week, good friend and fellow tough hockey aficionado Tom Blanciak asked me to compile my all-time toughest and most intimidating team by position. So once more I thought I’d break from the norm and share my choices with our PenguinPoop faithful.

For the record, the four guys I would’ve avoided like the plague (or “run away, run away” from as the brave Sir Robin wailed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail) were Bob Probert and Bruise Brother Joey Kocur, Philly’s mallet-fisted lefty Dave Brown and Nick Fotiu, a former NYC golden-gloves heavyweight champion.

Kocur and Brown were especially scary because they punched so hard. The former once cleaved Craig Coxe’s helmet in two with a blow…