Paul Bissonnette on Everything
Paul Bissonnette recently answered a string of emails for The Players Tribune. Most questions were about fighting and his role on a club. Some were about the actual act, others about perceptions of the players who do fight.
Take a guy like Jody Shelley. I’m sure people think he’s a complete meathead because of the role he played and how he played it. He’s one of the scariest guys I’ve ever fought against because he truly put on a mask to become a different person on the ice.
But when I met him off the ice, he couldn’t have been any more different. He’s such a great guy. He’s articulate, he’s funny and he’s very intelligent. And there are a lot of similar examples. Guys like Kevin Westgarth, who went to Princeton. Same goes for George Parros.
His answers about contracts and analytics made bigger waves in the hockey community.
