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TENDERHEARTED GOONS The NHL’s enforcers also happen to be among hockey’s leaders in charity work:

PLAYER ROB RAY

TEAM Buffalo Sabres

PENALTY MINUTES 172

FUN FACT –Suspended for four games this year for knocking the skates out from under a player

CHARITY WORK –Delivers food and toys on Xmas Eve to the poor; host of March of Dimes golf tournament; runs college scholarship; given $25K by NHL for charities

[PLAYER] STU GRIMSON

[TEAM]Anaheim Mighty Ducks

[PENALTY MINUTES] 127

[FUN FACT] –Suspended for two games for roughing

[CHARITY WORK] –Leads team holiday-toy drive; works with Make-a-Wish Foundation and Children’s Hospital of Orange County; active in Disney Gold to raise money for after-school programs

[PLAYER] TONY TWIST

[TEAM] St. Louis Blues

[PENALTY MINUTES] 121

[FUN FACT] –Called “the toughest guy in hockey” by hockey mags

[CHARITY WORK] –Leads a Vancouver-to-L.A. motorcycle trip over the summer to raise money for Head First, an organization to get kids to wear helmets when they play sports

[PLAYER] KELLY CHASE

[TEAM] St. Louis Blues

[PENALTY MINUTES] 103

[FUN FACT] –Got into 19 fights last year

[CHARITY WORK] –Twice won the NHL’s King Clancy Award for humanitarian contributions; runs programs for Gateway Special Hockey, teaching the sport to people with Down syndrome