At a time when the NHL wants to avoid another black eye from fighting, Derek Boogaard is aiming to help youngsters do the very same. By teaching them how to fight.
The Minnesota Wild enforcer and his younger brother Aaron, a former Wild draft pick now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, last week hosted the second Derek and Aaron Boogaard Fighting Camp in Regina.
The one-day academy is more or less what its name suggests. For $40, players between the ages of 12 and 18 receive hands-on (fists-on?) instruction in the art of on-ice scrapping from two of the toughest customers in pro hockey.
What's your take on this? Is teaching kids how to fight on the ice preventive medicine or just plain goonery? Or is it more complicated than that?
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The Minnesota Wild enforcer and his younger brother Aaron, a former Wild draft pick now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, last week hosted the second Derek and Aaron Boogaard Fighting Camp in Regina.
The one-day academy is more or less what its name suggests. For $40, players between the ages of 12 and 18 receive hands-on (fists-on?) instruction in the art of on-ice scrapping from two of the toughest customers in pro hockey.
What's your take on this? Is teaching kids how to fight on the ice preventive medicine or just plain goonery? Or is it more complicated than that?
More...