NEW YORK -- The father of a New York Rangers player who died in 2011 of an accidental overdose says his son was no friend of the ex-minor league player who sold him Percocet. Len Boogaard wrote in a ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard had been out of drug rehab for just one day before his younger brother gave him an unprescribed narcotic pain pill at the start of an evening of ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The brother of former Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers player Derek Boogaard, who died from a drug overdose in May, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHELSEA (WABC) -- The son of former New York Islander Gary Hart was arrested Tuesday in connection with the drug overdose death of former New York Ranger Derek Boogaard. Jordan Hart was taken into ...

The tragic death of New York Rangers forward Derek Boogaard shocked the National Hockey League. Now, sports fans are left to wonder: did the violent nature of Boogaard’s game play a role in his demise ...

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 ...

The NHL family sends its deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Derek Boogaard, to those who played and worked with him and to everyone who enjoyed watching him compete. Glen Sather, the ...

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 ...

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