December 7, 2011
Glass Not About to Change his Game
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Ask Winnipeg Jets’ tough guy Tanner Glass about Derek Boogaard, or head injuries, or brain damage from fighting, and he shrugs.
“I don’t think it’s much new,” Glass said Tuesday. “We’ve known about that in boxers and fighters for years. It’s a risk that every guy who drops the gloves assumes.
Glass, 28, is not your typical NHL combatant. He spent four years playing hockey in the Ivy League at Dartmouth College, a place better known for producing Nobel Prize winners than hockey pugilists.
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