Stuart Grimson (born May 20, 1965) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Grimson played at the National Hockey League from 1989 to 2002. During this time, he played for the Calgary Flames, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the Detroit Red Wings, the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes, the Los Angeles Kings, and the Nashville Predators. Grimson is known as an enforcer, with more than 2,000 minutes of penalty in his career. His stature, his reputation as a fighter, and the game on his family's name combined to give him the nickname "The Grim Reaper". Grimson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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During his long career, Grimson escalated as a fighter. In his youth, he had no balance, and was vulnerable to shorter and stronger fighters. It was during his first task with Anaheim that he started showing signs of improving his balance, and although his style still made him vulnerable, he scored a victory over some of the tougher fighters in the league. However, his best year in the NHL was the 1992-93 season with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he defeated a more formidable fighter league like Tie Domi, Marty McSorley, Darrin Kimble, Bob Probert (pre-season), Gino Odjick, Rob Ray, Kelly Chase , and others.
In the 1996-97 season, he scored decisive victories over established fighters like Randy McKay, Darren Langdon and Enrico Ciccone, and he defeated Ryan Vandenbussche and Shane Churla of the New York Rangers in a one-sided win. The following season saw Grimson move along Whalers to the Carolina, and as Hurricane he continued to be a force in the league. He started a rivalry with Krzysztof Oliwa of the New Jersey Devil that season, who saw the two men fight several times over the next few seasons, usually for a draw.
Grimson spent the next two seasons in Anaheim, and played his last full season with the Los Angeles Kings in 2000-01. He remains a respected and elite heavyweight fighter, but in his final season, in Nashville, he suffered from post-concussion syndrome and was forced to retire after a fight with Georges Laraque of the Edmonton Oilers. He had suffered the effects before the fight, and even admitted he had fainted in the middle of a fight.
Grimson enjoys a rivalry in career with the upstart Bob Probert, considered by many observers as one of the top fighters in NHL history. Although the consensus is that Probert gets the better of the competition, Grimson usually held his own and scored some of his own victories against Probert.
In his final season, Grimson builds competition with a new generation of fighters, such as Georges Laraque, Krzysztof Oliwa, and Scott Parker.
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Despite his frightening reputation on the ice, Grimson was respected as a smart and articulate person. He became a born-again Christian in the early 1990s and led the NHL Christian Fellowship ("Jesus is no coward," Grimson said in one interview).
After his retirement, Grimson completed his bachelor's degree and began work on a law degree. He completed his law degree in December 2005 at the University of Memphis Law School. He was In-House Counsel for the NHL PLayer's Association (2006-2008) and later worked for the Nashville law firm of Kay, Griffin, Enkema & amp; Brother, PLLC (2008-2012). He now works as Color Analyst for the Nashville Predator Hockey Club on Fox Sports South and the team's main network, 102.5 The Game.
He has four children: Jayne, Kristjan, Hannah, and Erin.
Grimson appeared in a commercial spot in 2001 for The Foundation for a Better Life. It starts with an in-ice game action that leads to a pause. While in the locker room with the team, Grimson receives a phone call. It was revealed that the caller was Grimson's daughter, who asked her to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider". He reluctantly obeyed, much to the entertainment of his teammates. Grimson replied, "Hey, this is my boyfriend! You know, my son?" The advertisement shows the gentler side of Grimson as a good family man.
During the October 6, 2011 edition of Hockey Night In Canada, Don Cherry accused Grimson, along with Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson, of being a 'pukes' & amp; 'hypocrites' who supposedly make a living as an enforcer and now complain about it. Grimson, at the time a licensed lawyer, showed that he considered legal action against Don Cherry on his behalf, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson cited Cherry's claim as "baseless and slanderous." After an apology about Cherry's "Hockey Night in Canada", Grimson considers his lawsuit against Cherry stating that "This is a decision for Canada, CBC is your network, you pay for it and you hold networks with standards and certain values. "
See also
- List of NHL players with 2000 career penalty minutes
References
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Legends of Hockey, or Internet Hockey Database
- hockey center
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