Rangers’ Matt Rempe a ‘different fighter’ after Georges Laraque fight camp
NY Post
To Georges Laraque, fighting in the NHL is a brotherhood.
So when Matt Rempe went on a bout bender during his first days in the league, putting what some believe to be a dying role in hockey in the New York City limelight, Laraque, the former longtime NHL enforcer — like everyone else — watched intently.
He saw the Rangers rookie hold his own against Islanders heavyweight Matt Martin in front of 79,690 fans at MetLife Stadium.
Then looked on as Rempe got clocked a few times by Flyers face-puncher Nicolas Deslauriers and later taken down by Blue Jackets tough guy Mathieu Olivier.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s getting hit way too much because he has no technique,’ ” Laraque recalled to The Post in a recent phone call. “And then after a few fights, his face, he had black eyes and everything. After [the] Olivier [fight], when it kind of went a bit bad, I was like, ‘OK, I have to reach out to him.’ Because he was so good for the league.”
The two exchanged a series of messages and Laraque offered up what he learned across 695 career games and 159 fights (according to hockeyfights.com) in the best way that text communication would allow.
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