The hockey fight itself is a blur — a minute of pure survival-mode adrenaline. But the mental toll behind those fights is significant. 'That’s the part people don’t know about.' m_bultman and RobsonDan on what it truly means to be an NHL enforcer.
through a nine-season career that ended in 2014. “I don’t want to be embarrassed.”
The fights they were bracing for might take 30 seconds or a minute. But the anticipation could weigh on them for hours or even days beforehand, and the fight itself demanded its own form of preparation.Whether it was visualization or outright watching tape on potential opponents, players wanted to be ready.
On a game day, Roy says, he would wake up at home, get a coffee, then open his laptop. Watching fight tapes “would kind of jack me up,” he says, so he’d watch around five to seven of them before getting dressed, showering and getting in his car.“And all I’d do is just think about my fight and visualize in my head continuously,” he says.“I prayed before every game,” he says. “I would always pray that I don’t get killed and that I don’t get hurt. And that I don’t hurt the other guy.
It could be even more complicated by the sometimes limited ice time for enforcers. Grimson hated to wait for a fight, but knew that in a limited role he could be sitting for a period or more before something would happen in a game that would require his presence. It was difficult for the 6-foot-6, 240-pound enforcer to shift from being stone-cold to ramping up the adrenaline needed for an altercation, he says.
Those who spent their careers fighting were not, in reality, always so eager to do so. But whether it was a way to make a name for themselves in the lower levels, a path to an NHL job, or simply out of a sense of duty to their teammates, they accepted it as their “job.”
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