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Steve Durbano was a classic loose nut.
If Brian Spencer wasn't completely unhinged, then his dad sure was.
From what I've read here, Sprague Cleghorn would probably be in jail or an asylum rather than playing hockey if he was around these days.
A couple of years back, Ryan VandenBussche, for some post-hockey run in with the law was declared to have been a "non-insane automaton"... which, while technically not crazy, still sounds ****ing scary.
As for the minor leagues, no one got weirder than Kerry Toporowski or Garry Coupal.
Link Gaetz certainly deserves mention here too, although I always felt that without the car accident and the rampant alcoholism, he was on his way to being a pretty good NHL defenseman. He had skills beyond the gooning... and he was damn good at gooning. Ehhh, water under the bridge now, I guess.
Oh yeah, and Bill Goldthorpe (my avatar)... who was the inspiration for Ogie Oglethorpe.
Steve Durbano and "the Missing" Link Gaetz were the two guys that came 1st to me as there were both nuts.