Patrick Côté was a second-round pick for the Dallas Stars in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft.
The Quebec native only played eight games in three seasons in Texas before moving to the Nashville Predators.
GettyCote dropped his gloves 50 times in just over 100 games[/caption]With one goal and two assists in 91 appearances over two seasons, he didn’t exactly light up the scoreboard.
But that is understandable given the amount of time he spent in the penalty box a whopping 313 minutes.
In fact, his 242 minutes set the Predators’ single-season record in the 1998-99 campaign.
His impressive tally is still some way off Dave Schultz’s NHL-leading mark of 472 minutes in the box in 1974-75.
Côté’s brief spell in Nashville saw him rack up a spectacular number of fights — he dropped the gloves 41 times in his 91 games
Two of those came against Mighty Ducks of Anaheim enforcer Stu ‘The Grim Reaper’ Grimson.
“I said the Predators didn’t have an answer for Stu Grimson. I was wrong,” the play-by-play announcer remarked during the game via The Hockey News.
Côté also played six games for the Edmonton Oilers before moving into the LNAH — which has a brutal reputation for fighting — with the Laval Chiefs in 2001 when his NHL was career over.
A year later, he was arrested in Malone, New York, after police found 30 pounds of marijuana in his car.
Remaining in the LNAH until 2008, Côté found himself on the wrong side of the law again in 2014.
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“Côté caught the eye of police in May when the car he was driving broke down in Candiac,” reported CJAD 800 AM in Montreal.
“When the patrol officers realized the car had been reported stolen in Ontario, they took Côté to the station for questioning.
“That’s when he admitted to investigators that he’d robbed a CIBC branch in Brossard in May and a Laurentian Bank in Saint Constant a few days later.”
At the time of his arrest in 2014, Côté also had two parole violations and an armed assault charge on his record, per CJAD.
The 6ft 3in, 220-pound enforcer played 105 games in the NHL and earned around $1.5million in salary.
He managed 50 fights in that time and will go down as one of the league’s most prolific tough guys.
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