In 1986, Joe Murphy became the first college-educated hockey player selected first overall in the NHL entry draft, and won the Stanley Cup four years later. In the Spring of 2018, Murphy was living homeless in the bush, spending his days outside a convenience store, muttering to ...
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'We Breed Lions' is a hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and shocking incidents of hazing and abuse throughout ...
Joe Murphy had it all. In 1986, he became the first college-educated hockey player selected first overall in the NHL entry draft. He won a Stanley Cup in Edmonton four years later. But since then, his life has taken a tragic turn, largely due to the untreated brain injuries he ...