Ice Hockey Enforcer

The term is sometimes used synonymously with fighter tough guy or goon.

Ice hockey enforcer. This is a list of enforcers who have played in the national hockey league. Enforcer or policeman is an unofficial role in ice hockey. An enforcer s job is to deter and respond to dirty or violent play by the opposition. An enforcer s job is to deter and respond to dirty or violent play by the opposition.

Ice hockey is notorious for brawling at least in north america s national hockey league. While no hockey player is officially listed as enforcer on the depth chart these guys might as well have been. At 6 6 240 lbs grimson was a monster compared to most others that. Enforcers are different from pests players who seek to agitate op.

The following are currently active nhl ice hockey enforcers and current minor league enforcers with nhl experience listed alphabetically by their last name. Some clubs still employ an enforcer but they are slowing being phased out of the game. When such play occurs the enforcer is expected to respond aggressively by fighting or checking the offender. With jay baruchel chris chelios brett hull howard bloom.

Enforcers are expected to react particularly harshly to violence against star players or goalies. He would fight almost every game mashing his fists into a pulp that doctors were. Enforcer is an unofficial role in ice hockey. Enforcers are expected to react particularly harshly to violence against star skaters or goaltenders.

This is a violent position in hockey and very controversial. Directed by brett harvey. Discussing bobby robins and zac rinaldo steve lepore of rolling stone wrote the two are what s known throughout hockey as classic enforcers. A hockey enforcer is a player who tries to protect their teammates by typically engaging in fisticuffs with opposing players often the other team s enforcer.

On ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the world s most prestigious hockey league only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself. The role of the enforcers who do most of the fighting is the focus of a new film goon. They can skate a little bit will maybe pop in a goal or two but are there primarily to protect his teammates from the other team s goon. Ewen would go on to play 11 seasons a soldier in the vast army of so called enforcers in that era of the nhl.