Gino Odjick, who died at age 52, racked up 2,567 NHL regular-season penalty minutes (ranking 17th all time) and became one of the Vancouver Canucks' most popular players after being drafted in 1990.
Though Odjick was mostly known for his fists, he scored 16 goals in 1993-94 as he spent time on Canucks star Pavel Bure’s line. Vancouver went to the Stanley Cup Final that year, losing to the New York Rangers in seven games."Gino was a fan favorite from the moment he joined the organization, putting his heart and soul into every shift on and off the ice," Canucks chairman and governor Francesco Aquilini said in a statement.
He was traded to the New York Islanders in 1998. He received an eight-game suspension in January 2000 for sucker-punching Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Darius Kasparaitis. Odjick finished his NHL career with the Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens, last playing in 2002.“I remember, in the last two years of my career, getting a concussion, going into Philly and walking around,”
. “People just looked like Martians. They looked like they were from another planet. I couldn’t remember how to get to the rink for half the season. I was totally forgetful.”with the rare condition amyloidosis, which produces protein deposits in the heart. He went into remission with chemotherapy. No cause of death was given.
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