Georges Laraque: Georges Laraque

NHL Dept: TORONTO - While overcoming the odds to carve out a NHL career that lasted more than a decade, Georges Laraque was known almost exclusively for how well he could use his fists, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Laraque opens up and tells his own side of the story in "Georges Laraque," co-written with Pierre Thibeault. The book is subtitled "The Story of the NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy." NHL player Georges Laraque jokes around with a Haitian boy outside Grace Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. During a NHL career that lasted more than a decade, Georges Laraque was almost exclusively known for how well he could use his fists. But the former heavyweight opens up in a new biography and shows there's a lot more to him than fighting and hockey. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-NHLPA But there's a lot more to the former heavyweight than fighting and hockey. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.