As even the casual puck fan knows, hockey teams usually carry at least one “enforcer” whose job description is as follows: Try your hardest to beat the living daylights out of an opponent. The ...

Chris Simon, then of New York Rangers, in 2004 - Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images Chris Simon, who has died aged 52, was one of ice hockey’s toughest “enforcers”; he ...

The unwritten code of enforcers is a set of guidelines that dictate when and how fights should occur. According to Olivier, this code is a mix of common sense and mutual respect among players. Key ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, authored by doctors from Columbia University and Rochester’s Mayo Clinic, found NHL “enforcers” — players who got into more ...

A study from Columbia University shows that players who spent their careers in the NHL as enforcers tend to die 10 years earlier than other players. According to the Canadian Press, the researchers at ...

MINNEAPOLIS — There isn't a day that goes by where Chris Carroll doesn't think about his brother, Andrew who died by suicide in 2018. "He made everyone feel like they were his best friend," Chris said ...

The New York Rangers’ 6-foot-7, 21-year-old center made his NHL debut on February 18, already making history as the first forward to make his debut in an outdoor game. No one cared about that piece of ...

There is no athlete quite like the hockey enforcer, a man and a role viewed alternately as noble and barbaric, necessary and regrettable. Like so many Canadian boys, Derek Boogaard wanted to reach the ...

I readily admit that I am not the most knowledgeable or biggest hockey fan in our P-B Sports department, let alone the outside world. That's partly because I was turned off long, long ago by the ...

The ongoing story of hockey players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) took another step forward with the publishing of the largest-ever study on the brains of male hockey players – a study ...

PHILADELPHIA – One has blur-inducing speed, the other is what head coach Nick Sirianni called a “hockey enforcer.” Neither one of them is named A.J. Brown, who the Eagles introduced on Monday, just ...