Dave Reginek (Photo by Dave Reginek/NHLI via Getty Images)The term “legend” gets thrown around loosely these days, but I'm comfortable in labeling former NHL defenseman Chris Chelios a legend and not feeling like I'm exaggerating. Chelios played an astounding 26 seasons in the NHL, ranking seventh all-time in games played. He won three Stanley Cups, two with the Detroit Red Wings and one with the Montreal Canadiens, made 11 All-Star teams and won three Norris Trophies. He's widely recognized as one of the 10 greatest defenseman to ever do it, and is arguably the greatest American-born player of all-time. So yeah, legend status.
Despite all these on-ice accolades, his most legendary, and most American, moment may have come when he was riding the pine during the 2009 Winter Classic. At the time, the head coach of the Detroit Red Wings was Mike Babcock, who was fired by the Toronto Maple Leafs on November 20 and has since come under fire for his alleged mental abuse of play..

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Rick KernMy fellow Americans. It is with a heavy heart that today we bring you news that Willie Nelson—country legend and human icon—has passed…the joint that is. Last week, the road-tested troubadour and worldwide ambassador for weed, admitted to KSAT 12 that at 86-years-old, it is finally time for him to hang up his rolling papers.
I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past, so breathing is a
little more difficult these days and I have to be careful. I started
smoking cedar bark, went from that to cigarettes to whatever. And that
almost killed me….I don’t smoke anymore – take better care of
myself. I don’t give a (expletive deleted) I’m here, I’m glad to be
here, I’m lucky to be here.
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We can all guess what “whatever” is. Nelson, despite his trademark braids and ear for an everyman hook, is best know for his, er, predilection for the green stuff, so this constitutes massive news in the American cultural landsc..

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