Player Discussion Donald Brashear

[Rongomania]

There's a Tim Hortons in White Plains and I'm not impressed with their coffee. People love this place. Not so much.

I will never understand why there was one on W72nd when I was working over there like ten years ago. It's like Dunkin's weird Canadian brother.

 

[Thirty One]

Someone said on the main board his friend just had opened that Tim Hortons up and he said he would help out to create publicity for it. I’m a little more inclined to believe that story to be honest.

His friend kinda sucks at creating publicity then.

“He’s an employee, that’s all. We have just started, he is here to help me,” Sévigny told the Journal. “We’ll take it one day at a time.”

 

[eco's bones]

The reality is that we’re only now starting to see the impact of the enforcer culture that existed between the late 70s through the 2000s.

We don’t really have a good benchmark prior to that time period, and we won’t know how the 2010s and beyond will look for another 20 years or so.

Now having said that, I think we also have to take into account some of the circumstances surrounding the enforcers who have passed.

Some of them battled some serious drug problems or had significant issues away from the rink. Those seem to be the names that are popping up the most. Additionally, we don’t know the true percentage of enforcers who have or will develop problems as a result of their role in the NHL.

There are likely many non-enforcers who actually took as much, or maybe even more punishment as a result of the amount of time they played and the punishment they received.

But this is all something that deserves serious monitoring and evaluating.

FWIW I think the NHL trying to walk away from these former players and the issues they have from playing the game--that the NHL at one time marketed and promoted is shameful. I don't think a lot of us understood the damage that was being done to numerous lives at the time but it's more than apparent now and has been for a long while. The NHL needs to stand up and take responsibility and really try to help instead of bogging the process down with denials about their own culpability.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

His friend kinda sucks at creating publicity then.

“He’s an employee, that’s all. We have just started, he is here to help me,” Sévigny told the Journal. “We’ll take it one day at a time.”

I mean the whole hockey world is talking about his Tim Horton's, so I say he did a pretty good job getting some pretty amazing free advertising