Marc Laforge

Marc Laforge
Born	January 3, 1968 (1968-01-03) (age 43) Sudbury, ON, CAN
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	215 lb (98 kg; 15 st 5 lb)
Position	Defence
Shot	Left
Played for	Hartford Whalers Edmonton Oilers
NHL Draft	32nd overall, 1986 Hartford Whalers
Playing career	1987–2001

Marc Laforge (born January 3, 1968 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted in the second round, 32nd overall, by the Hartford Whalers in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. He played nine games with the Whalers in the 1989–90 season before they traded him to the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for Cam Brauer on March 6, 1990.^[1] He would eventually play five games with the Oilers during the 1993–94 season.

After playing three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Kingston Canadians, the enforcer Laforge joined the Sudbury Wolves for the 1987–88 OHL season. Fourteen games into the season, Laforge was involved a postgame brawl with the Guelph Platers. Laforge attacked eight different Platers while they were involved in other fights, and he was also accused of driving Plater goaltender Andy Helmuth's head into the ice. Laforge was given a two-year suspension from the league (the equivalent of a lifetime ban for a 19-year-old in a league with an age limit of 21) for his actions, ending his career as a junior player.^[2] Laforge later referred to the incident as "the dumbest thing I've ever done."^[3]

Laforge amassed over 3,000 penalty minutes in his professional hockey career.^[3] As a junior player, he set the Kingston Canadians all-time record for career penalty minutes with 686.^[4] In his fourteen-game (year?) NHL career, he scored no points and spent 64 minutes in the penalty box. In addition, he holds the Manitoba Moose record for penalty minutes in a single period, tallying 37 in the first period of a 1997 game against the Long Beach Ice Dogs.^[5]

References

1. ^ OilFans.com: #20 Marc Laforge
2. ^ Rough House Hockey: Marc Laforge articles
3. ^ ^{a b} Marc Laforge still fighting, Toronto Star, November 8, 1998
4. ^ All-time roster for the Kingston Canadians (OHL)
5. ^ Manitoba Moose Individual Records

External links

• Marc Laforge's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
• Marc Laforge's biography at Legends of Hockey

Persondata
Name	Laforge, Marc
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Date of birth	January 3, 1968
Place of birth	Sudbury, ON, CAN
Date of death
Place of death