It was Tuesday morning, and they were talking hockey as usual at Hammer’s Grill & Bar on College Avenue in Henderson, home of the best — and biggest — breaded pork tenderloin sandwich this side of the Indiana State Fair. (The wings are pretty tasty, too.)
The topic was this latest concussion suffered by Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury.
The Hammer himself was seated at a table in the defensive end of the grill and bar. On the walls over his broad shoulders were Golden Knights banners and placards, and framed black-and-white photos of when he skated for teams such as the Peoria Rivermen, Flint Spirits, Rochester Americans, Erie Panthers, Medicine Hat Tigers and the Danville Dashers of the Continental League — a circuit so obscure that HockeyDB.