this article floored me. thanks for the link.
i thought this video of brashear with two children at kettler was worth posting alongside it.

link to the video that brashear mentions near the bottom of page 4.

here’s the passage from mike wise’s story:

Today, Brashear maintains his own Web site that documents his fights. It includes videos of many of them, including one entitled, “Don Delivers A Beatdown,” a malicious free-for-all in a semi-pro game. “That’s not who I am,” Brashear said, adding that he is taking steps to remove it from the site. “I didn’t want to fight any of those guys, but managers [of teams] paid them money to fight me. They just kept pushing me and pushing me.”

and this is how the video is introduced on brashear’s personal website:

Watch this video of Don handing out a beat down. Poor guy! :)

I’ve tried for a few days to articulate how this article has made me feel, I don’t think I have the words to fully express it.

Ok, so now I see why my FanPost was deleted. Exact same quote, too!

/slaps forehead

This article made me angry at his fathers. The fact that any “man” could do things like this to a child is beyond me. It was also terrifically ironic (in a sick, sad sort of way) when they interviewed his father and the guy said he couldn’t watch hockey because it’s too violent.

It’s uplifting though that he was able to be a professional athlete and get out of that situation. I just hope he can continue doing good things after his hockey career is over.