Jeremy Roenick, on of the game’s all-time greats, gives high-praise to Mike Keenan.
“Mike Keenan was one of the craziest sons of bitches I’ve ever seen,” Roenick said to chuckles. “He scared me into adapting the way I play. I was at Kalamazoo and he grabbed me by the throat and said if I didn’t hit the next guy I saw, I wouldn’t play a game in the National Hockey League. I saw the look in his eyes, and I really believed him.”
His eyes starting to water, Roenick continued, “I really believe because of him. … He’s why I played the game the way I played it.”
Roenick was a goofy son-of-a-gun, himself, but the guy played extremely hard and will be missed in the NHL.
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