Derek Boogaard

Derek Boogaard
Date of birth	June 23, 1982
place of birth	Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Canada
date of death	May 13, 2011
Place of death	Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
Nickname	Boogey Man
size	201 cm
Weight	120 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 7th round, 202nd position Minnesota Wild
Career stations
1999	Regina Pats
1999-2001	Prince George Cougars
2001-2003	Medicine Hat Tigers
2003	Louisiana IceGators
2003-2005	Houston Eros
2005-2010	Minnesota Wild
2010-2011	New York Rangers

Derek Boogaard (born June 23, 1982 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , † May 13, 2011 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA ) was a Canadian ice hockey player . He played in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers in the position of left winger . His brother Aaron is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Derek Boogaard began his career as a hockey player in the Western Hockey League , where he was active from 1999 to 2003 for the Regina Pats , Prince George Cougars and Medicine Hat Tigers . He also played in the 2002/03 season for the Louisiana IceGators from the East Coast Hockey League , to which he had switched in the middle of the season and had made his professional debut. During this time he was selected in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft in the seventh round as the 202nd player of the Minnesota Wild . After playing for their farm team , the Houston Eros , in the American Hockey League from 2003 to 2005 , the attacker was only on the ice for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since the 2005/06 season . In total, the Canadian completed 255 games for Minnesota and scored 14 points scorer .

At the beginning of the 2010/11 NHL season , Boogaard signed a four-year contract with the New York Rangers . On December 9, 2010, Boogaard was involved in a fistfight with Matthew Carkner during a Rangers game against the Ottawa Senators . In this fight, the player suffered a traumatic brain injury and a shoulder injury that excluded him from playing for the rest of the season.

On May 13, 2011, he was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment. Boogaard died "of an overdose of the highly effective pain reliever oxycodone in combination with alcohol" without suicidal intent.

Game style and death

Boogaard was mostly used as an enforcer within his professional career , within this role he fought a large number of fistfights and as a result suffered numerous injuries in the head area such as concussions and intermittent dementia , which ultimately led to Boogaard's disease from a chronic traumatic encephalopathy , the post mortem was diagnosed, were responsible. Due to the frequent injuries, Boogaard developed an addiction to pain medication, for which he went into treatment twice under pressure from his respective clubs. The direct connection between the consequences of Boogaard's style of play and his death, combined with the short distance in time to the deaths of two other NHL players who embodied similar types of players as Boogaard, sparked a discussion within the North American ice hockey scene about reducing health risks for players and the general raison d'être of fistfights in the game.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/2000	Regina Pats	WHL		5	0	0	0	17th		-	-	-	-	-
1999/2000	Prince George Cougars	WHL		33	0	0	0	149		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Prince George Cougars	WHL		61	1	8th	9	245		6th	1	0	1	31
2001/02	Prince George Cougars	WHL		2	0	0	0	16		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Medicine Hat Tigers	WHL		46	1	8th	9	178		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Medicine Hat Tigers	WHL		27	1	2	3	65		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Louisiana IceGators	ECHL		33	1	2	3	240		2	0	0	0	0
2003/04	Houston Eros	AHL		53	0	4th	4th	207		2	0	1	1	16
2004/05	Houston Eros	AHL		56	1	4th	5	259		5	0	0	0	38
2005/06	Minnesota Wild	NHL		65	2	4th	6th	158		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Minnesota Wild	NHL		48	0	1	1	120		4th	0	1	1	20th
2007/08	Minnesota Wild	NHL		34	0	0	0	74		6th	0	0	0	24
2008/09	Minnesota Wild	NHL		51	0	3	3	87		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Minnesota Wild	NHL		57	0	4th	4th	105		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	New York Rangers	NHL		22nd	1	1	2	45		-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				174	3	18th	21st	670		6th	1	0	1	31
ECHL total				33	1	2	3	240		2	0	0	0	0
AHL total				109	1	8th	9	466		7th	0	1	1	54
NHL overall				277	3	13	16	589		10	0	1	1	44

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Derek Boogaard at hockeydb.com (English)
• Derek Boogaard at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Sports Network: Rangers Sign Enforcer Boogaard ; Message on tsn.ca from July 1, 2010. (English)
2. ↑ spiegel.de: New York Rangers mourn Derek Boogaard ; Message from Spiegel-Online dated May 14, 2011.
3. ↑ nhl.com: Rangers forward Boogaard dead at age 28 (English)
4. ↑ Boogaard died from overdose ; Report on sport1.de from May 21, 2011.
5. ↑ cba.ca Boogaard had brain ailment caused by blows to head: report
6. ↑ epsn.go.com Enforcer's family vs. the NHL - Boogaards' lawsuit should cast light on opioid addiction, overdose deaths
7. ^ Edition.cnn.com Three hockey enforcers die young in four months, raising questions