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Ice Guardians Page #10
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- 2016
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If you know the opponent's
injured or he can't fight,
out of respect, you just kinda
like, let him be.
Or if that guy had just
gotten called up,
and instead of comin' up
and whackin' you,
spearin' you,
'n says,"hey, y'know
if I don't do it tonight,
then I'm gonna get sent down."
Then you're like, "I gotcha, kid."
There's many a'times that...
a heavyweight would come over
and say, "We're gonna go now"
And I'd say, "How 'bout
at the start of next period?"
I'm just at the end of a shift.
I'm done.
And you're the bigg est guy
on the team right now
and I'd rather be ready.
So we'll be fightin' in the
second period, not right now.
OK! Sounds good.
Oddly enough,
the guy that you're squaring off against
probably understands
a lot more about your role
and your day to day... mentality,
Especially come game time,
than all those teammates
and other people that you live with
because he's doing the same thing.
We don't wanna hurt the other guy,
but we do want to hurt the other guy.
It's a catch-22.
Sometimes even before
the linesmen get in,
you're tappin' each other
on the back, sayin' "good fight"
and you skate off.
There's been a number
...got punched in the face,
punched people in the face
and later that night,
I've gone, had a beer with them.
It's almost like two warriors
looking back at their careers
and saying, "Hey, you know what...?"
"We made it out the other side."
And forever they'll have
this, sort of... unspoken bond.
It all seems wildly entertaining
until something like this happens.
You never like to see another player
y'know, unconscious on the ground
thinkin' that you did that to them.
You deal with it and you
make your decisions
based on adding all those
different pieces up.
People say, "Do you feel bad?"
"Do you feel bad about...
That fight with Westgarth?
You knocked him out cold."
The simple answer's "No."
I don't feel bad about the things I did
because they're not done
in a malicious way.
Not everyone's wired the same
but... that's my viewpoint.
I guess... y'know, some guys
have beaten some guys up
they feel bad about it.
In the heat of the moment, you don't.
It's a conflict.
I probably... should lie on the couch...
For a long time.
And discuss this to get it outta my...
y'know, get it straight.
I don't think
an enforcer feels bad about it
because he understands
what it brings to the table
and he sees the big picture.
No, I never did...
but I know guys that did.
I know Derek Boogaard
was a guy that hurt me real bad
We ended up playing together after that.
We actually sat down and spoke about it,
as teammates now...
I was taken back by the fact that
he was actually worried about me.
He's like
"Y'know, I'm sorry about that."
I was just like
"Man, don't ever say that."
I would've done it to you
in a heartbeat.
If I could do the job and
win the fight without...
...causing bodily harm,
But, uh, the people that I...
did it to...
were enforcers as well
so they, they knew the risk.
I coulda been on the other end of that.
We all had a choice.
You're not there because
somebody held a gun to your head
and said, hey this is the
role you're gonna play.
If I get knocked out,
I'm not gonna be mad at
the world or the establishment
for putting me into a hockey fight.
I mean, I chose that path,
I chose that role.
and the circumstances,
whatever they'll end
up being are... y'know...
Are up in the air.
There's a bigger message in that act.
So, apologizing for it
I didn't...
Think about it.
Because I didn't think I had to
apologize for... y'know,
doing my best.
Once was bad enough, twice was shocking,
and now for the third time since May,
A few years ago...
Rick Rypien died.
Wade Belak died.
Derek Boogaard died.
It was an incredibly sad time
for the NHL as a whole.
I mean, to lose three young players,
two of whom were still playing.
I fought two of 'em.
I've had three or four fights
with Wade Belak.
I fought Derek Boogaard twice.
And y'know, being two guys
that are in my role, y'know...
it really hit home for me.
They're my brothers in hockey
and brothers as enforcers too.
It's a sad thing.
They were all tough guys.
And the natural, kneejerk instinct is
"Well, they were fighting
and they died..."
"They must have died from fighting."
It certainly was horrible.
It was unfortunate.
And anyone who said it was
just a coincidence got derided.
Oh, you're an ostrich in the
sand, burying your head.
You have to wake up to the realities...
that now this role has a body count.
A lot of people...
Especially in the media,
they wanna tie
personal problems to the game.
He's a hockey player.
"So everything the hockey player does...
must be tied to hockey."
If a player is
playing in professional hockey
for 10-20 years,
whole run of other experiences
that don't relate to the sport.
The tendency is to say that
all the problems were caused by the fact
that they were an enforcer.
Or that they fought in hockey.
Whereas it completely
ignores the fact that
they have a whole life
outside of hockey.
They have a family, they have tragedies,
they have all these other
elements that are going on.
You've gotta be pretty nave to think
there's not an alcohol and drug problem
in any professional sport.
I mean a lot of guys get
hooked on painkillers,
sleeping pills, anxiety stuff.
There's a whole lot of things
that guys have issues with.
or someone they know
suffer from addiction
in some way, shape or form
regardless of where you come from.
It doesn't discriminate against
who you are or what you do.
Millions of people deal with
mental illness and drug addiction
that are not enforcers.
So it's not really
that, y'know, strange to think
that within our small community
of enforcers,
there's people that don't
deal with it as well.
"Live hard, play hard."
That was the mentality
back when I was...
as you can the night before
and make sure you show up
to practice the next day
and that was the mentality.
And I just thought I was living...
The "pro" life.
Goin' to parties, have a good time,
doin' some drugs
and that's where it would end.
But now I'm 26, 27 years old
and I'm grabbing as much
cocaine as I can
with as much booze as I can,
I'm turnin' my phone off and
I'm lockin' myself in a room.
27-year-old kid, living my dream.
I'm at the top of my profession
...I can't look at myself in the mirror
when I'm brushing my teeth
in the morning
because I'm disgusted with
where drugs and alcohol took me.
It took me to a very, very dark place.
I wasn't drinkin' and
druggin' because of fighting.
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