Joe Kocur was on the last episode of This American Life talking about a fight with Jim Kyte and pitching his and Bob Probert’s new book The Bruise Brothers.  The Prolog (and the rest of the radio show) is pretty good and worth a listen.  There’s an article about the book over on canada.com

In addition to talking about his problems with alcohol and drugs, Probert also provided an interesting perspective on his time in prison in Minnesota. After providing protection for so many teammates over the years on the ice, Probert benefited from having well-known Detroit mob boss Jack Giacalone as a fan who made sure the prison thugs didn’t try to find out how tough the Lakeshore resident really was.

While Kocur said his style was to take a few shots if necessary to get control of a fight and then land a bomb, Probert was a windmill of flying fists.

Hilarious.