John Kordic

John Kordic

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
name = John Kordic
position = Defence
catches = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 1
weight_lb = 190
played_for = NHL
Montreal Canadiens
Toronto Maple Leafs
Washington Capitals
Quebec Nordiques
AHL
Sherbrooke Canadiens
Newmarket Saints
Cape Breton Oilers
nationality = Canada
birth_date = birth date|1966|03|22|mf=y
birth_place = Edmonton, AB, CAN
death_date = death date and age|1992|08|08|1966|03|22
death_place = Quebec City, QC, CAN
career_start = 1985
career_end = 1992


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halloffame =

John "Rambo" Kordic (March 22, 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta - August 8, 1992 in Quebec City, Quebec) was a hockey player in the National Hockey League. He played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals, and Quebec Nordiques. He spent 7 seasons in the league and earned a reputation as being an enforcer, amassing nearly 1000 penalty minutes in 244 games. He won a Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1986.

While on the Toronto Maple Leafs, he wore #27, formerly worn by Leaf greats Darryl Sittler and Frank Mahovlich. He was of Croatian descent.

On August 8, 1992, several police officers were called in to restrain Kordic, who was trashing a room at the Motel Maxim in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec. Following a struggle with police, Kordic was taken to hospital in an ambulance, where he lost consciousness and subsequently died of heart failure and a collapsed lung. A coroner's inquest later determined that Kordic had 0.1 milligrams of cocaine in his system, which according to Dr. Georges Miller, was the most cocaine he had ever seen in a person's blood in his twenty years of practice. At his time of death, Kordic was only 27 years old. cite web
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John's brother Dan Kordic, who was also primarily known as an enforcer, spent the 1990s in the Philadelphia Flyers organization.

Career statistics

ee also

*List of ice hockey players who died young

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