From the NHL, to Convicted Felon, to…College Hockey?

Published on: 12th January, 2010 @ 8:16 pm by JeffG

Mike Danton, the former NHLer (St.Louis and New Jersey), who served five years for plotting to kill his former agent David Frost (upon his release, Danton claimed he was trying to kill his father, not Frost), is attempting a comeback.

Kind of.

Obviously Danton understands that no NHL team would touch him after what he’s gone through, but you’d have to think that some minor league team would be willing to take a shot.  He did, after all, play in the pros–87 games over three years–and the publicity that goes with having a convicted felon suiting up for your team is sure to sell some tickets.

But if Danton has aspirations to make it back to the show, he’s going to have to take the long, long route back.  And I do mean long.  Seems our boy here is pulling a Rodney Dangerfield, and going back to school (see what I did there…”Back to School” was a mid-eighties film starring Dangerfield.  That’s called relevant humor, kids).  Danton has enrolled at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

And despite being a 29-year-old frosh, Danton may be able to play for the Huskies, once some administrative red tape is cleared up.

It’s probably a million-to-one shot that the kid makes it back to the NHL, but at least he’s trying to straighten his screwed-up life out, and at the very least, he’ll (hopefully) get a university degree when all is said and done. [National Post]

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