As NHL commissioner Gary Bettman spoke about the future of fighting in hockey at an NHL Board of Governors meeting this week, that question kept nagging at me. As in, what if there is in fact a link ...

That was the 70th fight of his NHL career, and by midday Saturday more than 80,000 people had watched replays of that fight on YouTube. Boogaard signed a four-year, $6.5 million deal with the Rangers ...

Derek Boogaard had CTE – a progressive brain disease linked to concussions. Dec. 6, 2011— -- Derek Boogaard, the former National Hockey League player who died from a drug overdose at age 28 in ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by former NHL player Derek Boogaard’s parents, who blamed the league for their son’s brain damage and addiction to ...

It may be weeks before authorities know exactly how and why New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard died, although foul play was not immediately suspected. The 28-year-old player was found dead ...

News that teammate Derek Boogaard's death was ruled an accident due to a mixing of alcohol and the powerful painkiller oxycodone hit the Rangers' Sean Avery pretty hard. The gritty left wing had ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Boogaard, a 28-year-old member of the New York Rangers who was regarded as one of the toughest fighters in the National Hockey League, was found dead Friday. The Rangers did not ...

Bellingham neighbors react to FBI investigation of man accused in D.C. terror attack Neighbors at the Walton Place apartments in Bellingham were woken up Thursday ...

(AP) Joanne Boogaard watched her son Derek duke it out on the ice with other NHL tough guys for six seasons as one of the most feared enforcers in the game, a 6-foot-7 brawler who was not there to ...

Derek Boogaard, the ungainly 6-foot-7 hockey enforcer who went from the Aeros to the NHL’s Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers, has died at the age of 28. We profiled Boogaard in 2004, pairing him in ...