Account of the life and shocking death of the toughest man in hockey - Derek Boogaard. It's a book that raises deep and disturbing questions about the systemic brutality of contact sports--from peewees to professionals--and damage that reaches far beyond the game. Derek Boogaard was a mountain of a man who lived an almost mythic sports story. But at 28, his death from an overdose of painkillers in the wake of a series of concussions helped shatter the silence about violence in professional sports.
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