Awesome profile of Washington Caps enforcer Donald Brashear by Washington Post columnist Mike Wise over the weekend.
Brashear's childhood wasn't happy.
I'll leave it at that. Read the story.
My only problem with the piece, really, was the part where Wise quotes Brashear saying the sort of goon hockey that he's mastered—when he drops the gloves, he's as [...]

The Caps/Rangers series, which concludes tonight, has had plenty of great hockey.
But the matchup has gotten to the top of the local sports heap—Brian Orakpo's introduction to the local media at Redskins Park got poleaxed by Donald Brashear's banishment—because of all the quasi-hockey incidents: the pre-game tussles, intra-squad domestic issues, some biting, world-class gooning, and [...]