ANAHEIM – He was an incensed visionary, an enraged prophet, Jim Schoenfeld a man before his time at the exact moment he was losing his mind.
It was in the spring of 1988 that the then-New Jersey Devils coach – in a spastic postgame spectacle more befitting one of Tasmania’s devils – called referee Don Koharski a “fat pig” before twice urging him to “have another doughnut!”
Schoenfeld’s Canadian accent distinctly produced the sound “DOH-nut,” a full 13 years before another cartoonish character prompted the writers of the Oxford English Dictionary to officially recognize as a word “doh.