Joe Kocur

We're gonna, uh, take a break and pay some bills.

This is Gloves Off, Darren McCarty, Joe Kocur, and our special guest, Brett Hull.

We'll be back in a few.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to the fifth annual Joe Kocur Foundation for Children golf outing.

Thank you to our friends at Anheuser-Busch for supplying the beer.

We're getting ready to watch the Lions win their first Super Bowl this year, drinking the official beer, Bud Light.

All right.

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I was, I was having a coffee with Joey Kocur.

And, uh, you, you know, you guys played ball together, and he was a little bit ahead of you with the Blades, right? But he's, and uh, he was asking me who I was having on the, uh, podcast coming up, and I said, "Uh, Killer"

Killer"And he goes, "You, you gotta make sure you ask him who gave him the nickname Killer" 'cause he goes, "I..." He'd had no idea.

Yeah

... you know, Joey Kocur wasn't playing that year but came in the league.

He was at the Yorkton camp.

And I go, "What am I in for here?" Because I, I was a pretty physical kid, but I'd skill like everybody at that age and, and you gotta understand, boy, I, I've gotta maybe be able to do a little bit of both if I'm gonna get noticed.

I'm thinking the other-

And, and that, and that comes down, that comes down to can Jacob Markstrom be the goaltender that we believed he could be, you know, going back a few years? Like, when he signed with the New Jersey Devils, or sorry, when he was traded to the New Jersey Devils, could he be the guy that everybody expected that he was gonna be?

Yeah.

I do believe that in front of that defe- or behind that defense, which is very good, the, the addition of Brady Tkachuk, Alexander Barkov back in the lineup, like, they intrigue me a lot.

Jordan Binnington's in a contract year.

Yeah.

Joel Hofer ... has been the guy that they have believed will be the, the next guy to take the reins, and I still do believe that-

He could be the next Team Canada goalie.

... stake a claim.

Like Bob Probert and Joey Kocur and all the guys that were there.

There was a lot of tough guys in those games.

But I mean, that was just part of it that was really cool.

"I would like that, 'cause they'd be standing up every, you know, two minutes.

I get on the ice once a sh- period, and they stand up and they know something's gonna happen." But other than that, I, you know, 'cause I always had to be ready for the Dave Brown, Joey Kocur, Rob Praveir.

Go down the list.

Yeah.

... just getting warmed up.

[laughs] And especially your age.

Like Joey Kocur, I've talked to him.

He's here in Michigan, so we're kinda close.

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You know what you get when you Google toughest sports team ever? You get NHL tough guys from Sask: Kelly Chase, Joey Kocur, Kerry Clark, Wendell Clark, Barry Melrose, Killer Kaminski, and two farmers, and that was a Saskatchewan softball team.

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