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NHL fighters motivated by fear

By Lindsay Berra
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Tough guys, enforcers, thugs, goons, call them whatever you like. But don't forget big softies and scaredy-cats, because really, that's what most of them are. The fighter in the National Hockey League strikes an intimidating pose. The biggest is probably Zdeno Chara of the Ottawa Senators at 6-foot-9 and 261 pounds. Average is about 6-4, 225. Even the smaller ones, like 5-10 Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs, are fearsome -- an NHL analyst once described Domi as a bowling ball with teeth. ...

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