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Originally Posted by pylon
Cooke isn't doing garbage like that anymore. Last year the guy could have damn near been a Selke candidate, and could have had consideration if not for his past.
I hate to defend a guy with his past, but he actually was an valuable, clean player last season. And was an incredible story of redemption. He admitted he was a dirtbag, was remorseful, manned up and changed his ways. The guy only had 44 PIM's for god sake, and you know half those minutes probably came simply because he is Matt Cooke.
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When the story came out I remember reading how his wife told him that she was having a lot of trouble respecting him as a human being because of the stuff that he was doing it was tough to read.
He worked incredibly hard to change his game, but you could be a mass murderer who goes straight and does incredible charity acts, but whenever someone dies even if its from natural causes the first person they look at is you.