Monday, November 16, 2009

Ranger Years Were a Nighmare for Fleury

Jeff Z. Klein at the New York Times has a feature on Theo Fleury recalling his time with the Rangers in his book "Playing With Fire"....

When Theo Fleury was a Ranger, he said, he would stay out all night drinking, doing cocaine, going “below the streets of New York City” to “party with freaks, transvestites, strippers” or to “hang out with homeless guys around a burn barrel” on the West Side piers.

He substituted Gatorade or his baby boy’s urine for his own in drug tests until, finally, he had to take a break from hockey to enter a substance-abuse program. Much of his time as a Ranger, from 1999 to 2002, he remembers as a “nightmare.”

...i don't know, that sounds like fun to me.

Fleury also takes some shots at Brian Leetch and Mark Messier.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

He'll be at the Penn Station Borders tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm signing his book. I really want to go and might skip work and other obligations to meet my idol.