Tuomas Grönman to remember how the NHL’s legendary fighter Bob mr. probert was sitting in the locker room quietly and stare at nothing.Bob mr. probert was known as an NHL tough as the fighter of the 1980s and ‘ 90s. GETTY IMAGES

didn’t want to fight.

remember, vividly, how the NHL’s all-time-famous hard fist had embarrassed the Chicago Blackhawks ‘ training camp in 1996.

as Soon as camp begins, game day help wanted young goon you challenged the old master to fight like little hyenas.

– Every guy wanted to fight with a legend. He gets pissed it. Him take so much from. He rush’d to them, that is, go away, Grönman tell.

He was so tired of the job.

Fatigue, fierce style of play and heavy lifestyle by, took Probertin grave 45-year-old, in the summer of 2010. This weekend in North America appeared in her documentary film, Tough Guy: The Bob mr. probert Story.

cocaine tuomas Grönman was Probertin team guy. ASKO TANHUANPÄÄ

the Trailer is not pretty at all. It doesn’t much romanticize target but underlined the tragic human fate, the big man, who didn’t get off the intoxicants, nor the role that he had been given.

Image goes down cocaine, a serious tv news broadcasts and with my head down a teammate, I sighed: Not this again.

I Was drunk and I came over the border, are Probertin first words in the trailer.

the Voice belongs to penance, a little vaikeroiden. The words refer to the events of 1989, when mr. probert was carrying from Canada to the united states of 14 grams of cocaine, which he had shoved the panties.

He sat three months in prison.

teddy bear

mr. probert was a spectacular revelation.

He was such a teddy bear. Fucking a big, long arms and huge syliväli, Grönman describes the 191-centimeter and more than a hundred pounds of kanukkia, who was both admired the cult player that dreaded problem case.

I Know his reputation, when I go there.

Grönman was in my twenties newcomer kit from Turku, which place blackhawks in the locker room happens to be Probertin next to it.

He was really friendly and nice for young guys like me. Not in any way scary. Nothing of arrogance.

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Teammates called Probertia Probie.

– Probie was so calm, quiet, somehow a bit sad looking, Grönman tell.

He was a bit of a sad character. Think about it, that was all right. He sat and stared into the void, was minding my own business, languid.

the Fighter role was heavy. It is clear. Probertista would have been something else. Prove it by the statistics. Season 1987-88 he made a Detroit Red Wings shirt in 62 (29+33) with power points and he was elected to the NHL all-star game.

Detroit-a career ended with the loss of passports in the summer of 1994, when the club got kohuista enough. Lockout after mr. probert moved on to Chicago. There was as head coach Craig Hartsburg , who wanted to fist swings and excesses.

– All the other clubs were understood, that it was no longer the thing. Our head coach, we should fight with. We had five of them in the team, Grönman amazed.

– Not fucking. The three of them couldn’t even play.

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the ‘ 90s was the Chicago Bulls in gold-time. Black hawk eyes get worse. It’s trying to be rugged and very bony, which was desperate to wallow in the time that was already gone.

We had an unwritten rule that you didn’t get to play with visor. No one had, Grönman tell example.

We were encouraged to play. It was old-fashioned. Not that it won at that time. All of the games was lost.

Grönman started the season skipper Chris Chelios in the kit as a pair. Finnish broken shoulder, which left her as the only remaining Chicago-the season in match number 16.

mr. probert played the full 82 games, scored 23 (9+14) points, and take 326 penalty minutes.

Passion waned substance abuse problems suffered Bob mr. probert have to deal with the authorities. ZUMAWIRE.COM / MVPHOTOS

the blackhawks for the period 2000-01 piloting Alpo Suhonen spoke Probertista last summer, the evening paper of 70-year interview. Suhonen mentioned that mr. probert was the NHL’s rehab program, which from him was taken once a week for blood tests.

I Talked with him a lot. Mr. probert would have liked to play more and fight less, Suhonen said.

his destiny to turn my head for good fights. That fight was terrible to watch.

Also Grönman remember how Probertin ”had to piss in a jar”. Zero tolerance was a lifeline.

mr. probert followed it, which told me that season (1996-97) full match amount.

But it did not appear that he had more passion for ice hockey – it was more like it, that does now today.

Probertin career is waning to an end in 2002. Statistics missed a total of 935 NHL regular season match in Detroit and Chicago, among them, 384 (163+221) power points and exactly 3 300 penalty minutes, the sixth-most in league history.

Heart

It was the heat wave’s peak, 5. July 2010, when Probertin heart gave out in the middle of the hot summer day when he was boating with his family and his wife’s parents. Father-in-law recovery companies do not rescue the father of four children.

the Family gave Probertin brain sports medicine studies. They found out that he had a degenerative brain CTE-a disease that is closely related to alzheimer’s disease.

the Same three-letter diagnosis is given to many others die before their time for NHL players. What unites them all is a fight and countless concussions.

– it’s Not a coincidence, that these players have had problems, Grönman sighs.

the use of Substances and CTE caused both melancholy and depression.

He remembers Bob Probertista a beautiful wife, a motorcycle hobby and how tired he was to the role.

– There in training camp too, he then finally had to fight.