Most interesting NHL player of all time?

[carjackmalone]

Tommy Burns

 

[Hippasus]

Frank Frederickson should also be in consideration.

Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants, fights in the First World War for Canada and is part of the Royal Flying Corps. Gets sent to Egypt for training, and on the way back to the UK the ship is sunk, but he survives. Post-war he leads the Falcons to the Allan Cup and they win the first hockey gold medal in the Olympics. He stops in Iceland after the Olympics to help start up their airline industry, and is the second pilot in the country, but moves back to Canada in October 1920, where he turns pro in the PCHA, and is one of the better players in the league, helping Victoria win the Cup in 1925 and reach the Final in 1926. Joins the NHL when the leagues consolidated the next year. After retiring as a player he coaches at Princeton, where he shares a mutual interest in the violin with a professor of physics there, a German immigrant named Albert Einstein.

Now, that's a life.

 

[iamjs]

Pinchevsky: The interesting life of Brent Burns

Between the missing teeth and tattoos and the Chewbacca mask at the All-Star Game, you might think you know Brent Burns. Turns out, the NHL's most interesting man has plenty more up his sleeve.

www.espn.com

I was kinda hoping for more.

The article gives the intro about "being more than his missing teeth, tattoos, and Chewbacca mask", but goes on to primarily talk about his missing teeth, tattoos and Chewbacca mask.