Posted by Retired hockey enforcer Bob Probert, as adroit with his fists as with a stick in a sixteen-season career with the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, died at the age of forty-five, after suffering chest pains while boating with his family.
The late hockey star was on a boat in Lake St. Clair with his wife, chidren and in-laws when he developed severe chest pains. His father-in-law Dan Parkinson who is a police officer performed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Probert before he was rushed to the Windsor Regional Medical Center in Ontario. The late hockey star was on a boat in Lake St. Clair with his wife, children and in-laws when he developed severe chest pains.
The Blackhawks honoured Probert’s contribution to hockey with a Bob Probert Heritage Night on February 22, 2009. In his career as a hockey player Probert had three hundred eighty-four points in nine hundred thirty-five career regular-season games and ranked sixth in National Hockey League History. He announced his retirement from the NHL during the 2002-03 off-season after serving a short time in drug rehabilitation on February of 2003.
At press time, there are no funeral arrangements that have been made. Probert has left behind a widow and four children
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