Derek Boogaard's shocking death came with a great deal of mystery. A 6-foot-7 hockey tough guy, Boogaard was a fan favorite with the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers before he died at age ...

Derek Boogaard "The Boogey Man" 12 of 60. Not too many people wanted to mess with Derek Boogaard while he was in ... Arbour was one of the first NHL players to take the ice wearing glasses.

In this Nov. 4, 2010, file photo, Philadelphia Flyers’ Jody Shelley, left, and New York Rangers’ Derek Boogaard fight during an NHL hockey game in Philadelphia. Boogaard suffered from chronic ...

Len Boogaard still searching for answers in death of son May 17, 2015 at 6:08 p.m. | Updated July 8, 2015 at 10:11 a.m. Four years have passed since former Wild player Derek Boogaard died because ...

Derek Boogaard of the Minnesota Wild and Wade Belak of the Nashville Predators spar at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in December 2009. Boogaard’s father is trying to determine whether ...

But Len Boogaard is continuing his often-solitary quest to find what extenuating factors might have led to his son"™s death, knowing full well, he says, that Derek "œwas an addict." ...

On the fourth anniversary of enforcer Derek Boogaard’s death, we present this column, which later appeared on SI.com on June 18, 2012, about the troubling issue the tragedy raised. UPDATE ...

Derek Boogard couldn't count the number of times he'd gone dark due to blows to the head. Scott A. Schneider/Getty Images Todd Fedoruk, "The Fridge," wanted a piece of Derek [Boogaard]. The puck ...

"Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard" grew out of the three-part New York Times series John Branch wrote after Boogaard's death. At times, the book feels padded-out. Branch gives blow ...

For a brief and bloody time, Derek Boogaard was among the most feared players in the NHL. He spent nearly all of his six years in the NHL with the Minnesota Wild. He died of an accidental drug ...

Derek Boogaard was an NHL enforcer, and his job was to fight. In 2011, at the age of 28, Boogaard was dead of an accidental overdose.

Boogaard began purchasing the pills in November 2010, driving from Manhattan to Huntington, N.Y., where Hart had moved. Boogaard suffered what ended up being a season-ending concussion in December.