It’s Jeremy Roenick’s turn to be featured on the latest edition of “Inside Look” on Comcast SportsNet at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Pat Boyle examines the career of the former Blackhawks great, who had back-to-back 50 goal seasons and three straight 100-point years while starring at the old Chicago Stadium. His highlight with the Blackhawks came when he led them to the Stanley Cup Final against Pittsburgh in 1992.
Roenick recalled the influence former Blackhawks coach Mike Keenan had on him.
“He created ‘JR,’ for lack of a better term,” Roenick said. “He scared me into playing the physical, reckless abandon-type play that I adopted. I wasn’t a big hitter in high school, I wasn’t the toughest hitter in high school, but when Keenan grabbed you around the throat in a hockey game, and threatens that you’ll never play if you don’t finish checks and hits and play with that reckless abandon, I think, Chicago-style … you find ways to become the player they want you to be.
“I felt like when I hit people, the crowd cheered. I scored goals, the crowd cheered. I knocked people out, the crowd cheered. Made a nice pass, the crowd cheered. So I really got a nice rush off of that and I really enjoyed the fan reaction when I did all three things. It turned out to be really good because, to be an all-around player like that, to hurt people in a lot of different ways on the ice, you don’t find that too often.”
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