Posted on 09/01/2011 10:56:32 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
An enforcer does not only protect the skill players through intimidation. Hockey is a game of emotion. If yeor teamate just pummels an opposint player, for good reason, everybody has an extra jump in their skates. The momentum of a game, and the outcome, can change on a dime, all bucause of a good scrap.
I can see his wife kicking his rear end maybe.
In her prime, she probably could have done the same to us.
In retrospect, it probably was an accident, but not in the sense of taking small amounts of both drugs. Someone just tried to get a little too high, and miscalculated.
buccaneer81 is right that accidents like this can happen. In coroner-speak, “accident” just means that the person didn’t intend to kill himself (and wasn’t intentionally killed by someone else). It’s not a comment on his level of moral responsibility for his death.
In Boogaard’s case, he was given the drug by his brother, who was charged with a crime. I don’t remember the exact charge or status of it, but I’m not sure that that death is still classified as an accident.
I can run pretty fast.
Had experience running from mad, well never mind.
Derek Boogaard was a drug addict. It was reported that he died while celebrating getting out of drug rehab. I don’t suppose he meant to kill himself but I don’t call that an accident either.
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