1996/97 Boston Bruins Bryan Fogarty Away Pre-Season

Dieses Trikot wurde in der Saison Vorbereitung der Saison 1996/97 von Bryan Fogarty getragen. Nach dem Vorbereitungscamp nahm er den Weg des Scheiterns, wie ich es bei ihm mal nennen möchte. Er trat seine erste Stelle in Europa an, seinerzeit bei den Hannover Scorpions. Für einen Mann, der in der ersten Runde von den Quebec Nordiques gedraftet wurde und nachdem er alle Verteidiger-Rekorde von Bobby Orr in seiner Jugendzeit gebrochen hat, definitiv zu wenig. Er galt zur Zeit seines Drafts als "Blue-Chip" der Nordiques und er hätte mit seinen Anlagen einer der ganz großen werden können, wäre ihm nicht sein Lebensstil dazwischen gekommen. Er starb im Alter von gerade mal 32 Jahren an Herzversagen.

Das Trikot verfügt nicht über ein Zertifikat, es weist jedoch einige wenige Spielspuren auf, die auf den nachfolgenden Bildern zu sehen sind. Am Ende findet ihr eine kleine Beschreibung des Menschen Bryan Fogarty.

Hersteller:       CCM / Maska

Größe:            XXL

LOA/COA:    No

Photomatch:   No

Signed:           No

Patches:         No

Der Name ist "laminiert", das heißt der Stoff mit einer Schicht überzogen, leider kommt das auf diesem Bild nicht richtig zur Geltung...

Der Knopf auf dem Fight-Strap ist leicht korrodiert und trägt einige Rückstände von Salz, was auf leichte Wear hindeutet.

Neben kleinen Stickmarks ist das Trikot arm an Wear. Pre-Season Gamer zeigen selten deutliche Wear, dafür sind sie dann auch etwas günstiger. Der Fight-Strap weist leichte Scheuerstellen von der Hose auf:

Wie eingangs bereits erwähnt meinte es das Leben nicht sonderlich gut mit Bryan Fogarty, oder besser: Fogarty wußte mit seinem Leben wenig anzufangen. Hier ein paar Eindrück über Bryan Fogarty:

Tuesday, June 29, 1999

Kids have to be careful

By STEVE SIMMONS -- Toronto Sun

  They look so grown up and yet so young, the hockey teenagers all dressed in their brand new suits, parading to the podium on the day of their calling.
 Every one of them so bright-eyed and optimistic on draft day. Every one of them a future star -- or so the general managers, agents and television voices would have us believe.
 Bryan Fogarty was one of them once.
 More than a decade ago, from the stands of the Joe Louis Arena he heard his name called, hugged his family, made the famous walk and slipped a Quebec Nordiques jersey over his head. Like almost everyone else, he called it the best day of his life.
 The young men who were drafted in Boston on Saturday afternoon, from all over the world, who wouldn't know who Bryan Fogarty was and is, who never have heard the story, should be told about him. They should be told in detail.
 And there was his name again yesterday, a brief few sentences at the back of the sports section, another headline for another Fogarty story, this one from Brantford.
 "Former NHL player Bryan Fogarty has been arrested and charged with drug possession after a break-in at a local school. Fogarty, who battled alcohol dependence when he played in the NHL, has been charged with break and enter and possession of a controlled substance. Fogarty, 30, was charged after a man broke open the kitchen doors at the Tollgate Technological Skills Centre early Saturday morning. Shortly after, the man was found standing naked in the kitchen with cooking oil spilled on the floor around him."
 Bryan Fogarty was one of those smiling can't-miss kids. The defenceman broke the junior scoring records of Bobby Orr, Al MacInnis and Denis Potvin. He was named junior player of the year. He was one of those special players, the kind you couldn't take your eyes off, the kind who could do everything. But it didn't turn out well for him.
 He bounced around, from team to team, league to league, nightclub to nightclub, never finding himself, never finding his place. And everyone was willing to give him another shot, because he was Bryan Fogarty, because maybe this time he would get it right.
 He drank too much and then went through rehabilitation. Then he drank too much again. "We got our acts together for a while," Fogarty once told me, of his friendship with the late John Kordic. But only for a while.
 "He's dead," Fogarty said, "and it could have been me. I keep reminding myself. I'm like him. I have to keep saying that. It scares me. You know something like this can happen to you."
 Fogarty lasted parts of three seasons in Quebec, was traded to Pittsburgh, traded to Chicago, signed by Tampa Bay as a free agent, then by Montreal and Buffalo and then by Chicago again.
 In between, he played in Halifax and New Haven, Muskegon and Cleveland, Atlanta and Las Vegas, Kansas City and Minnesota, Detroit and Davos, Milan and Hanover. Nine seasons, seven leagues, 16 teams. All before his 30th birthday, which was earlier this month.
 Quebec wound up trading away Fogarty in a deal the two sides had agreed upon. Former Nordiques general manager Pierre Page became so frustrated with Fogarty that he promised the young defenceman he would trade him if he could stay sober for three months. "I didn't think he could do it or I wouldn't have said it," Page said.
 In Pittsburgh, Craig Patrick fell in love with the talent, talent he put up with for only 12 games. "How many young defencemen could do what he could do?" Patrick said. "We honestly thought he could help us."
 Unhappy with Fogarty's lack of conditioning, the Penguins sent him to the International Hockey League. He lasted 15 games in Cleveland.
 "He had an excellent game for us and the next day there was a problem," Cleveland coach Phil Russell said.
 "There was an altercation ... (with) a taxi driver. The next morning I went to his room to talk to him but he was gone."
 There are other stories just like these, stories of hope and trades and signings and dismay and the horrible claws of alcohol.
 Yesterday, Bryan Fogarty put on a suit and was drafted in another forum, in bail court in Brantford, a city where his name still means something. He was released on his own recognizance.
 "I don't have anywhere to go but up," Fogarty told me seven years ago. "It's up to me now. If this doesn't work out, I won't have anyone to blame but myself."
 Steve Simmons' column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. He can be reached by e-mail at ssimmons@sunpub.com

Das ist dann das was man einen Skandal nennt. Man stelle sich vor, Lothar Matthäus würde hier in Deutschland mal in eine Schule einbrechen (bei Foggy war es seine Grundschule) und er würde dann nackt vorm Herd stehen und kochen..

Und 2002 dann das Ende von Bryan Fogarty:

Former junior star Fogarty dies at 32


By Associated Press

Fogarty

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Former NHL player Bryan Fogarty died Wednesday of heart problems. He was 32.
   A native of Brantford, Ontario, Fogarty was selected the Canadian Major Junior Hockey Player of the Year in 1989 after breaking Denis Potvin's single-season record for points by a defenseman with 155. He had 47 goals and 108 assists in 60 games for the Ontario Hockey League's Niagara Falls Thunder.
   He was the Quebec Nordiques' first-round draft pick in 1987, but had just 22 goals and 52 assists in 156 games with Quebec, Pittsburgh and Montreal. He last played in the NHL with the Canadiens in 1994-95.
   After playing for a couple of team's in the IHL during the mid-1990s, Fogarty went on to play in several international leagues.
   Last season, he played 11 games with Huntsville of the Central Hockey League and 18 games with Elmira of the United Hockey League.
   Fogarty had battled alcohol for years. In 1999, he was found naked inside a Brantford high school and was charged with breaking and entering and possession of a controlled substance.
   Preliminary results showed Fogarty died of heart problems, but Horry County Coroner Robert Edge said more tests would be done.

von:  http://www.detnews.com/2002/wings/0203/07/sports-434487.htm

Saturday, September 21, 2002

"Bryan, you never should have left home."

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