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Donald Maynard Brashear (born January 7, 1972) is an American-Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He previously played for five organizations in the National Hockey League (NHL), in which he was considered one of the most effective enforcers. His aggressive style led to being among the League leaders in penalty minutes for six seasons, while currently ranking 15th all-time in NHL history, and resulted in multiple suspensions as well. He remains the Vancouver Canucks all-time single season leader in penalty minutes, which he set in the 1997–98 season. He was the victim of one most publicized incidents of on-ice violence in NHL history, when he was slashed in the head by Marty McSorley, during the 1999–2000 season. Brashear was born in Bedford, Indiana, but moved to Val-Bélair, Quebec, as a child. He has represented his native United States twice internationally, playing in consecutive IIHF World Championships in 1997 and 1998. ==Early life== Brashear is the youngest of three children born to an African-American father, Johnny Brashear, and French Canadian mother, Nicole Gauthier, in Bedford, Indiana. His father was an alcoholic who abused his family, including beating Donald with belts and electrical cords. On one occasion, when Donald was only six months old, he picked him up and threw him across a room.〔 Nicole, afraid that Johnny might kill her, left the family and returned to Canada. Later she came back to take the children, but left Donald to live with his father for another four years,〔 until Donald's paternal grandmother sent him to Canada.〔 Donald's mother later stated that she left him behind because her future husband was prejudiced and did not want another mixed-race child in the house.〔 Brashear moved in with his mother and his new stepfather in Lorretteville, Quebec. Unfortunately, he suffered further abuse in his new surroundings; he was forced to sleep with a garbage bag tied around his waist to keep him from wetting the bed, and was verbally berated for not being able to tie his shoes.〔 His mother finally decided to give him up to foster care, due in part because of what she called "mental problems" from the abuse he had suffered, and because he did not accept her as his mother.〔〕 Brashear lived in two different foster homes that sent him away since the families believed he was a "little too much to handle."〔 At the age of eight, Brashear moved to Val-Bélair, Quebec, and settled into a new foster home. Once there, he began playing hockey with his new siblings.〔 In order to help pay for hockey, Brashear sold baked bread and garbage bags door-to-door. Later, he became a paper boy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All About Don Brashear )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Brashear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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