Last night on "Coach's Corner" during Hockey Night in Canada's season opening broadcast, Don Cherry delivered his first sermon of the season: Angrily discussing the changing philosophy on physicality ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Former NHL star and Boston native Chris Nilan says he doesn't know how Whitey Bulger got a Stanley Cup ring. Bulger waived his right to have the jury decide whether he must forfeit the ...

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo former NHL tough guy Chris Nilan poses for a portrait while promoting the documentary "The Last Gladiators," in Toronto. Nilan had a far greater fight than one ...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — The resurrection of Chris "Knuckles" Nilan began several years ago on the fringe of Boston. After 30 surgeries from his 13-year career as an NHL enforcer, he was gobbling pain ...

Nilan says in the film that he has survived overdoses He doesn%27t think he suffered any concussions or that fighting led to his various addictions Nilan will be three years sober in May The Chris ...

Chris Nilan holds out a pair of gnarled hands and wonders if he could have been a doctor. Maybe a few hapless victims of his powerful punches over a 13-year NHL career wish Nilan took a different ...

Chris Nilan has, at various points, had five Stanley Cup rings -- and he says none of them wound up on Whitey Bulger's finger. Nilan's former mother-in-law was a longtime partner of Bulger, the ...