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December 6, 2011

Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer

Dead of an accidental overdose at 28, Derek Boogaard rose from Western Canada’s rugged youth leagues to become on of Hockey’s most feared pugilists. Along the way, what happened to his brain?

  1. Part 1: Learning to Brawl

  2. Part 2: Blood on the Ice

  3. Part 3: A Brain ‘Going Bad’

John Branch New York Times Dec 2011 40min Permalink