As Shawn Thornton turns the page on his 14-year NHL career, he has a few confessions to make first.
In a profile for Sports Illustrated, the former Bruins enforcer (who is moving from the rink to the front office with the Florida Panthers) admitted that he wasn’t a big fan of the role he occupied for the entirety of his days as a player.
“I’ve never really enjoyed [the enforcement] part of it,” Thornton told Sports Illustrated’s Kate Cimini. “I’d rather score goals, but I was never good at that. But a job’s a job.