a long way from the prairie's of russell manitoba. nine hundred ninety nine i was signed by the new york rangers as a free agent can my life changed forever in the late nineties i shared stories. that sent shock waves throughout hockey sheldon kennedy who is my teammate in calgary told the world he was molested by his junior hockey coach graeme james all the memories came flooding back memories i thought i had when i was drafted into the n.h.l. . the press reopen my old wounds with every question they asked me about the. no i was never molested by graham james no i have nothing to say about that i was not ready to talk about this i was not ready to relive my trauma i was not ready to be reviewed by the media and society so i went for the dark side of life and god wall then. drugs and alcohol and gambling and sex and food is very angry very resentful. very full of i don't know what's going on it's side he was just ready to like the all the gotti fearlessness i carried through my youth and transformed into a brazen breach right down to

feel flora he was raised in a small town of russell manitoba. a rule community toto away in the prairies of the canadian countryside. i was the first of three born to wally and donna flurried dad was destined to be a hockey great as well or if it baseball injury robbed him of his dreams only a teenager instead of a career as a star athlete is fake consisted of driving heavy equipment drinking heavily and half heartedly providing for his family. everyone found ways to cope mom found prescription pain pills well i found aki obviously i've been very open about my own story my own history and people have connected to that when i was five years old i was walking home from kindergarten with a classmate of mine and so they were in our first hockey practice and you want to play it so i quickly ran home and asked my mom if i had any equipment and we found an old pair of skates that were three sizes too big for me a broken hockey stick a couple of sears catalogs for him and i put them all in a pill sock and i went down to the rink and we try something new