Forbes Kennedy’s NHL Farewell Was One For the Books

Forbes Kennedy’s goodbye from the NHL was not the tidy, buttoned-up kind people put in highlight packages years later. It had the sort of edge and weirdness that old-timers still tell over coffee, because some exits say as much about a player as the years that came before them. Boston Globe pieces like this usually drag you back into an era when the league felt tougher, louder, and a lot less polished.