Former Oilers enforcer Dave Semenko dies at age 59

Dave Semenko — maybe the fiercest National Hockey League fighter of them all, the personal on-ice bodyguard of Wayne Gretzky during the Edmonton Oilers’ glory days in the 1980s — has died after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
“I’ve never seen a man that big taken down that fast,” said his Oilers teammate Paul Coffey, who flew in from Toronto to see Semenko this week. “He won every fight (NHL) but, unfortunately, this wasn’t his battle to win