height_ft played_for shoots weight_lb birth_place draft_year image_size career_end position draft_team height_in birth_date article_title draft career_start
6 new stars buffalo sabres york rangers hartford whalers philadelphia flyers minnesota north right 210 bowling green , oh , usa 1979 180px 1988 defense new york rangers 2 09 february 1959 ed hospodar
 34th overall 1979
ed hospodar

edward david `` boxcar '' hospodar -lrb- born february 9 , 1959 in bowling green , ohio and raised in mississauga , ontario -rrb- is a retired american-canadian professional ice hockey defenseman who played nine seasons in the national hockey league -lrb- nhl -rrb- for the new york rangers , hartford whalers , philadelphia flyers , minnesota north stars and buffalo sabres .
however , he did not see a great deal of ice time at any point in his career , used primarily as an enforcer .
he was known for being one of the instigators of a pregame brawl between the montreal canadiens and the flyers in the old montreal forum prior to game 6 of the wales conference finals on may 14 , 1987 -- an act which earned him a suspension for the remainder of that year 's playoffs .
while with the rangers , hospodar 's face was badly damaged by clark gillies of the new york islanders in a 1981 fight at madison square garden .
in 450 nhl games , hospodar scored 17 goals and had 51 assists , with 4 goals and one assist during 44 playoff games .
he acquired 1314 penalty minutes during his regular season games , and 208 penalty minutes during his playoff games .
hospodar retired from hockey in 1988 .
hospodar received his nickname in junior hockey after a writer deemed the force of his checks to be commensurate with that of a `` runaway boxcar . ''
although born in the us , hospodar learned the game in canada ; his father was a plant manager for the campbell 's soup company , overseeing plants in new jersey , ohio , and later ontario .
hospodar 's brother became a byzantine catholic priest .
