Cody McLeod Talks Fights on The 19th Hole

Learning how to fight helped vault McLeod into the pros.
McLeod was 16 when he went to Portland, Oregon, to play at the Major-Junior level in the Western Hockey League, which is a route he says many players take to get to the pros. “I just wanted to play hockey so bad and I wanted it so bad. … Players that I played with were getting drafted and going to the pros and I had played with them for two or three years. And I always thought that I was just as good as them. So once I started scrapping and learning how to fight (things changed).”