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Colby Cosh on chunkheads, shot blockers, rhetoric and reality

The sport’s most stubborn ritual forces the conversation on the NHL’s opening night

Boogaard, Rypien, and Belak, too, were each well liked and respected. They will be unfairly lumped together because of their deaths rather than their lives — they were different players in different circumstances — but the common theme after their departures was how much each of them was loved.