That group includes ex-NHLers Derek Boogaard, Reggie Fleming, Bob Probert, Larry Zeidel and most recently Jeff Parker, as well as four former junior hockey players—all of whom committed suicide ...

Sean Avery was always cut from a different NHL cloth. An accident waiting to happen on the ice, he was most unhockey-like away from the rink, interning at Vogue and taking in fashion shows. It ...

Through the night and into the next day, as the scrolls across the bottom of television screens spread the news of Derek Boogaard’s death in May, the calls of condolences came, one after anot… ...

Yet by all accounts his troubles ran nowhere near as deep as those of Derek Boogaard and Rick Rypien, tough guys to whom Belak has inevitably been compared because they too were found dead in what ...

Rypien is the second NHL tough guy to die in the off-season. Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard died in May due to an accidental mix of alcohol and the painkiller oxycodone.

Aaron Boogaard faces charges in connection with Derek Boogaard's death and also faces immigration charges.

After that, nobody wanted to fight Derek Boogaard. The guy they called the "Boogeyman" stood a towering 6'7" and weighed in at 265 lbs.

Oh what a difference two weeks can make. I had planned for this blog to describe some of the highlights of what has been the most exciting spring of Stanley Cup hockey I can remember. It was going ...

Sean Avery, left, and other members of the New York Rangers leave Derek Boogaard's funeral in Regina, Saskatchewan, Saturday. The 28-year-old was found dead on May 13.

More than 35 members of the Rangers organization attended the funeral of Rangers forward Derek Boogaard on Saturday at the chapel of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan.