Donald Brashear Not the First Hockey Alum to Shed Skates

It shouldn’t be too surprising to discover Donald Brashear isn’t the first LNAH alumni to make his way to the fighting cage.

The league is far better known for its fisticuffs than its stylish play, as evidenced in the documentary film, The Chiefs, which follows a team not at all unlike the Charlestown Chiefs of Slap Shot infamy. The league is so fight filled, in fact, that even retired NHL bad boy Jimmy Mann finds it repugnant.

“Goons are in a league we have, this Quebec league here,” started Mann, who incidentally detests the term ‘goon’ in almost every instance. “Guys that can’t hardly skate, and all they want to do is fight every game.”