{"id":208767,"date":"2025-10-13T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:08","slug":"longtime-nhl-enforcer-donald-brashear-comes-out-of-retirement-at-53-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208767\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime NHL Enforcer Donald Brashear Comes Out of Retirement at 53-Years-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/604436.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear with the Rangers\" title=\"Former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear with the Rangers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Fox Sports<\/p>\n<p>Longtime former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear, who last played in 2009-10 with the New York Rangers, is back in pro hockey at 53 in Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>Former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear is back in hockey and isn&#8217;t letting his being 53 years old slow him down.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s signed a contract with the Corner Brook Royals of the Central Western Senior Hockey League and he&#8217;ll be competing against the other 3 teams in the League, which include the Deer Lake Red Wings, Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts and the Stephenville Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>During Brashear&#8217;s NHL career, he was one of the most feared enforcers to tie up a pair of skates. He played in 1,025 NHL games and had an astounding 2,635 penalty minutes, many of them from fights. As far as points, he had 205 (85G, 120A).v<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, his total penalty minutes were tied for the 15th most in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Brashear was also the victim of one of the most stunning on-ice acts of violence in professional sports history, as he was slashed in the side of his head by Boston Bruins forward Marty McSorely in 2000 as a member of the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>During his NHL career, Brashear also played with the Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Brashear Continued Playing Long After NHL Retirement<\/p>\n<p>Brashear wasn&#8217;t able to secure a new contract for himself after last playing in the NHL with the New York Rangers, and signed in the LNAH with Sorel-Tracy GCI.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he went overseas and signed a contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League. In 2015, he was back in the LNAH with Thetford Assurancia.<\/p>\n<p>Several years later in 2023-24, he played for Jonquiere Marquis, also in the LNAH. He had 45 penalty minutes in just 24 games. Later, he was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/nhl\/news\/former-nhl-enforcer-donald-brashear-retires-from-pro-hockey-at-age-52\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an assistant coach<\/a> for a new LNAH expansion team in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HouseOfHockey<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>5 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a072 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Longtime NHL Enforcer Donald Brashear Comes Out of Retirement at 53-Years-Old<\/p>\n<p>Was Donald Brashear the best enforcer of the last 25 years?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Fox Sports Longtime former NHL enforcer Donald Brashear, who last played in 2009-10 with the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,101691,101692,101690,448,752,82,452,754],"class_list":["post-208767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-western-senior-hockey-league","tag-corner-brook-royals","tag-donald-brashear","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}