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  • I understand this guy so much I wanna play hockey, People say im pretty good but the fact that I would be the minority is holding me back a little even though im used to being the only one of my kind in a room class or activity wtv. this vid is cool

  • I understand that he is not hockey player.

  • I tell you what if black kids could afford(their parents) to play hockey there would be more in the NHL. I've played with some sick fucking black kids.

  • George Laraque's favorite nhl team he had ever played on is the oilers.

  • go laraques go...and the HABS also of course!!!!

  • westerners are becoming PC pussies.

  • I've shaken his hand and it was as hard as rock, but probably the nicest guy i've met.

  • Laraque is truly a class act! 

  • Laraque is a beast. Nuff said, Point blank.

  • the king of the ice fights

  • 2:30 Never knew that his dad was Rampage Jackson

  • It goes both ways. I respect anybody that succeeds on merit against the wishes of those around them. My best friend, who is white, enrolled his son in a Pop Warner football league that was 99% black. I asked him why when there was a league closer to home? He said he would have to put up with all the shit talk and start from day one playing against more aggressive players. His son ended up getting a scholarship to a Div. 1 school in the SEC. Something to be said for the correlation.

  • i got a tear in my eye

  • The gentle giant.

  • georges laraque . . . next, pk subban

  • i like george, but am i missing something here ? who was lipping off to this guy when he was growing up ? to look at him now you'd have to assume he was probably six foot two hundred by the time he was 12.

  • from a bruins fan, major props to laraque

  • @extra. Laraque isn't the type of man to exaggerate the story. He's not a media hype person. Hes one of the nicest, most down to earth individuals around. More athletes need to be like him. Wish he hadn't retired.

  • I don't condone its use, but the N-word doesn't hold the same weight when you grew up in Montreal. I realize he is of Haitian decent, originally was a slave colony, but the pejorative use of the N-word is a fixture of African-AMERICAN slavery. Comparing yourself to Jackie Robinson is ridiculous as a Canadian. When did black Canadians face the Jim Crowe laws, lynching, or even Slavery, African Americans would escape to Canada. Im glad it helped you George but don't compare yourself to Jackie!

  • @jsorrentino08 I remember growing up in Montreal and seeing black kids being beat up at school.

  • @jsorrentino08

    I got the impression Georges Laraque used Robinson as an inspiration, not that he was comparing himself to him.

  • Good for this guy

  • he is so adorable <3 i'm sure he wouldn't like to hear that, but it's true :P

  • i would be to scared to piss him off

  • love georeges

  • I don't know if this is true or not. I played hockey against and with black players in my life and I never called them any names at all (you know...besides "asshole", "f__khead"...regular stuff like that. I never heard anyone get called that either. I think this might be the media making a little more out of this than what is there. Laraque is a tough S.O.B. though...nobody can take that away.

  • As a fellow black hockey player myself I must say that I respect Laraque a whole lot more now! Even though he plays for the fuckin' Habs!! I wish my Bruins would sign this guy if he ever becomes a free agent!!

  • robinson was actually good at baseball. laraque was simply a goon? cant really compare the two.

  • @epsiona05 Laraque is definitely NOT a goon. He is an enforcer but a very clean fighter. he simply defends himself and his teammates. He reminds me of Nick Fotiu another clean fighter and never hits a guy when he is down. All my respect to Georges Laraque.

  • dirtty ass player slahing Darren Helm in the face then the knee to knee on Krownwall fuck that piece of shit bastard

  • Cool.

  • Thank you Georges Laraque. You will be missed in the NHL.

  • After he came back to Montreal, Laraque stayed here and became very implicated with the community, the children and haiti. He's a nice funny guy with tons of charisma...

  • amazing just amazing i missed going to a game and seeing laraque fight or even score a big goal. its quite a shame seeing what our world has come to that we cant even except our own

  • he pulled the black card all the way to the nhl

  • chara already got punched of laraque and shit himself and pulled laraque on top of him so the fight would end and his never lost a fight this guy is the hardest along with bob probert

  • Love this video and it is a pleasure working with you as alway's Georges!

  • vive george laraque vive la palestine  et vive le quebec on a les meilleur joueurs et vive haiti

  • Racism will always be around in some way we all know that. Stereotypes and slurs will always linger. But if you think about it there are so many half white half black or half asian half white or half anything half anything that it's gonna be reallllly difficult to be a racist in the future. Other than that good on Laraque i've always loved the guy and how he brought class and toughness to the game all at once. P.S- He scored a hat-trick in a game once too lol

  • @HeyItsWill12 so what he never scored 3 goals after the this game tro all his career he suxed at hockey.... just here as a goon thats all

  • @khav11 Yes because that was the point of my post you idiot. Go score a hat trick in an NHL game then open your mouth

  • @HeyItsWill12 shut up bitch

  • @khav11

    It's kind of true though...

  • @TRDIGFV fuck niggers

    <---- superior race(do i have to remind you)

  • @khav11

    You don't really have to remind you, all you have to remind yourself is that you can't accept other people, and you're probably a bit insecure to go with that too...

    Cheers.

  • @khav11 stfu u damn racist rot in hell

  • @khav11 fag

  • @TheAwesomeBricks nigger ...lol

  • @khav11 fuck off bitch

  • @R3dTigerM40A3 faggot nigger

  • @khav11 ive looked into your account, i dont think your racist i think you like playing around on the net to get some stirr.

  • @Jonzer1983 im not

  • good for him. Its hard swimming upstream your whole life but I guess It made him stronger.

  • AIK miss you Laraque!

  • Laraque is fuckin sick

  • and asked if we enjoyed the game. He actually fucking stopped and asked us this question which had never happened with any professional hockey player that I ever met. We said yes and he said "have a good night, get home safely."

    This man is PURE fucking class and you could tell he wasn't putting on a show, man deserves 100% respect and I would love him playing for the Isles any day of the week.

  • I met George Laraque one night after the Oilers played the Isles at the Coliseum. Not only was this guy fucking huge, but his hand was noticably bandaged up, he had had a fight with Eric Cairns that night and well, he beat up on Eric as you can imagine. What I didn't know was that his hand was damaged before the fight but he played and fought any way. to make a long story short we joked that we were "sorry you made your hand worse by beating on Cairns helmet." He laughed his ass off.

  • is that extracted from a DVD or something ?

  • professorfoxtrot, in today's world nobody should have to suck up racism. In turn racist need to suck up there is no place for racism on this entire planet. You are by a small majority that think that way. As for Laraque, every team needs an enforcer, unfortunately Jacques Martin has this dream that will not pan out, it never does with Jacques. Martin has the right concept to get to the Stanley cup but will only get to gaze at it, as long as he keeps with his attitude of padding a dream team.

  • @Voltatire316 dude soon people are going to be racist to white people, every year we are becoming more and more of a minority. Indians and chinese make up the majority of the population of the world...not much else to say

  • This guy is allready my HERO by listenin to his story, its good that he didnt gave up his dreams look where he is know playin in NHL (National Hockey League) God is holy dont forget that thats for all ya´ll Racist Crap God works in mysterios way

  • EVery video about a black person always have to have racist comments.

  • i miss him he was the only enforcer on the habs to stand up to chara :(

  • @uberhaxor69 CHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAY THANKS TO THE PISS STAIN CANADIANS BLOWING A 2-0 LEAD IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS YEAAH SING IT CHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAYCHARA'S GOT THE CUP YEAAY

  • @AlienBusDriver laraque didnt play for the canadians in 2011 playoffs lol....u fail hard watch hockey nub

  • @uberhaxor69 Yeah this guys a little behind the times. Laraque was with the Habs in 08/09

  • @BrettMessier23 i'm not a huge hockey fan but im pretty sure laraque never played for the bruins

  • @AlienBusDriver Shut up bastard, Chara probably has a Stanley Cup but he only sucks Lararque´s dick in a fight, moron.

  • soooooooooooooo mad this guy in not with the pens.......

  • RESPECT

  • Kinda get the impression that ur a dumd red neck whose kids where too dumd to get into university then u looked around for something to blame saw som black kids got in and assumed they where dumb, if ur kids where realy smart enough they would have gotten in

  • Laraque is probably one of the the most respected players in the NHL. he gives so much for people in every area he lives in.

  • get over it. my kids didn't get accepted to colleges where blacks had lower grades. they didn't get financial aid even those less needy did just becaus they were a minority. how would you explain to my kids who busted their buts for 18 years that they didn't get into their colleges because they were the wrong skin color. disenfanchrise that.

  • ..are you talking about canada?None of the white people I know got turned down because the university needed to meet some kind of quota....none of them(even lower middle class ones) had trouble getting financial aid.

    ...did you talk to those black people about their academic performance and their financial situation?Why do I get the feeling you made all that shit up?

  • Georges Laraque is my favorite non-King fighter.

  • racism is just so sad. No one should have to fight that hard to do something they genuinely enjoy! Especially in these days

  • I'm so tired of hearing the racism card. I have an experience that most white athletes can sympathize with. I've played basketball and hockey. I can't tell you how many times I've been called whitey, cracker, you play white defense, etc. Where all of us white guys bent over backwards not to say a word remotely offensive to any black or minority member. Yet they have free reign to say whatever they please, no matter how offensive.

  • Omg omg omg!!!! you sound like a minority. Now you know what it feels like whitey comon man take that experience and learn some understanding smh

  • Posterkid317, word. I have learned from it and tried to be a better person. I guess my point is that saying racism flows only from whites to other is b.s. The crap flows both ways.

  • he didnt play any "card". but i do understand what you mean.

  • @chaddy91910

    i think around 200 years of slavery may give them the right to a few racial sluers which dont even bother people that much

  • I love laraque he's my favorite enforcer, aside from Cote. (thats just cause i know him personally) lol

  • they were pretty racist to laraque

  • It is absolutely never OK to call someone a "fat mother fucker" but you can't take someone to the guillotine because they said it. It all falls under the umbrella of name-calling and people need to grow up and stop having a hissy fit everytime someone says something they find offensive. Also I don't agree with your reason given "because its asserting your supremacy over someone else" because that's exactly the essence of every sport, otherwise they wouldn't bother keeping score!

  • And what do you mean by check my whiteness? I have a mind of my own, what difference does it make that I'm white? I don't really need to consult my ethnicity to form the basis of my views. And I will dare continue to utter such words in lieu of the cowardice that is political correctness.

  • Youre great man

  • Fortunately for Georges, racism isn't an issue no more in Quebec since half of the population is foreing... Montreal is now the most international city in the world

  • He is a class act- unfortunately, thats why the Habs dropped- we got to be an "enforcer" (as he cant skate anymore) and yet he was too 'gentlemanly' to fight anyone....

  • hope your friends and family in Haiti are alright, Georges

  • why do i read these comments lol........i swear my IQ drops a few points after reading em......shame on me for that.........idiots

  • people who talk shit about him are jelous cuz he makes about 3 times what people make in a year

  • you go Georges! you are a class act and it's great that you made it to the NHL...those racist bastards who hated you are now jealous of you..

  • Bunch of nancies. Name-calling is part of hockey. Call someone a piece of shit for getting cross-checked and no one cares. Call someone a "nigga" for on the ice and let everyone become outraged at the greatest injustice ever.

  • yeah no shit racism shouldnt have a place i sports and your probalby a jelous mother fucker with no life so you have to be a racist son of a bitch

  • How does that make me racist? Think before you speak. Everyone is going to make fun of you for whatever differences you might have whether you're black, overweight, short, asian etc. Imagine if an overweight player could get another player suspended just by just claiming he called him a "fatass" When you have good rivalries name-calling is inevitable because it adds to the intensity of feuds and injecting sensitivty in hockey makes us all weaker if cannot handle any sort of criticism.

  • @professorfoxtrot i understand what you mean but there has to be a line. if laraque was fat i guarentee he wouldnt be called "fat fuck" he would be called "fat nigger" which is not right at all. ya find something to make fun of but not something like race. its extremely ignorant and unwarrented by the respectable portion of society

  • @professorfoxtrot Yes because racism has no part in it. Can't come up with something original other than to harrass him for being black? Better not to say anything at all.

  • @dlwst44 Laraque needs to suck it up. Making fun of people's differences is part of life and the sooner kids realize it instead of trying to rubber foam the world from hurt feelings the better off they are.

  • @ryanlesperance777 you shut the fuck up how would you like it if you were black and people were calling you nigger fucking dickhead

  • haha he hasn't lost a fight yet this year

  • Think you would fucking know that by now claiming as you've played the game. Which I highly doubt you have. Laraque is one of the toughest, nicest layed back dudes you'll ever meet. Yes he is successful. Did you not listen to the video above? Have you put up with that? He played in the CFL and NHL and makes millions of dollars. What are you successful for sir? That shit Jaguar bullshit? LMAO thats fucking duster hockey you joke. Keep criticizing. And if he sucks. Then make your way to the show

  • HAHA thats pretty funny kid. No, the fans that ever player hates dont justify how a team is made. ALOT of fans love him. I didnt know it was a bad thing to be respectful to other guys who make a living doing the same thing you do. I didn't know there was a certain criteria for your attitude as an enforcer. Do wild fans complain about Boogaard? Do Kings fans complain about Ivanans? They most likely do. Fuck fans. They complain over everything. Enforcers arent there on skill.

  • Have you any clue what its like to face the ridicule and the hard work Georges had to go through to make his way to the NHL? No. You don't. You are a coward sitting behind the anonymity of a keyboard criticizing him. Have you even laced up a pair of skates? You're the definition of a joke and a coward. Post back soon. You amuse me.

  • Even the worst players in the NHL have more talent in their left ass cheek then you ever will. He's the best enforcer in the NHL....BAR NONE. I don't care what some biased youtube hockey fight critics and superfans say. He is the best. Why the fuck would you go and question him winning a fight? He rarely loses you fucking idiot. He respects alot of other guys. Is as tough and humble as they come and worth every penny he is payed. And earned every penny. You're NOTHING. A coward.

  • Georges is an enforcer in the game today, and he's black. Therefore he's racist and getting revenge on white people? Give your melon a shake buddy. How fucking stupid can you be. He makes more in one paycheck then you're whole life is worth. And he worked his ass off to earn that. His teammates don't hate him at all you fucking idiot. The guys love him in the room. A great team guy and humble and funny.

  • Was reading your comments and had to make an account to call you on QUITE a few things. First, hows your computer chair? Comfortable? Thats good. Secondly, who are you to call a guy who worked his ass off to get where he is, put up with so much criticism and hate, countless hours training, fighting, traveling, a waste of money and a shitty hockey player? You're a nobody. An armchair critic. Comfortable at home, criticizing successful people from behind your keyboard.

  • man he made it to the NHL so shut the fuck up and who give a fuck how he cost

  • laraque will knock ur face off

  • laraque has made it farther than any of you assholes so i wouldnt b talkin FUCK U people who make fun of him

  • hes goood cuz he is an enforcer when somebody does a cheap shot on a star hell beat the fuckin sense out of them

  • holy shit dude ur such a loser he dosent suck u suck!! wf i ur problem. i actually think u have somthin rong wit u, jackass!!

  • he didnt say that or anything like it at all. and brashear isn't the only other black player in the league. all he said was he was sticking up for himself when people gave him shit and in hockey when you give people shit you get in fights sometimes. you really have a way of twisting things dont you?

  • haha lmao i agree with that. laraque is a goon. all he can do is fight. stop blaming the fact that ppl hate u on race... because thats not why, we hate u cuz u suck! laraque sucks

  • hahahaha since he became a veggie he became a pussy! nice lolololl

  • Retard,FAIL

  • Never Forget Alton White the first Black Hockey player to score 20 goals in one season he played four years in the WHA. He is alive and well living in Vancouver.

  • haha you rednecks are hilarious. you must not have watched the whole video because he talks about how he transcends the hatred of others... so keep the hate coming scrubs.

  • 909beats you fucking idiot your just a pussy who didnt have enough drive to push yourself to make it in basketball no ones ever going to do a story on you and not nearly as bad as if white kids were playing basketball

  • For a black man to make it in the NHL give them credit because you know he through went through enough mental stress to put most people in jail. I have seen Laraque around Edmonton and you have to admire him. Class act. So instead of mind dribble and comparisons how about something like congratulations you did it good for you.

  • SAME FUCKING SHIT HAPPENS TO WHITE KIDS ON THE BASKETBALL COURT!

    Think i was never called a cracker. Someone do a story on that.

  • Same shit may have happened to white kids on the basketball court or to you personally....difference is, you probably never fought the black guys and definitely didn't make it to the NBA...

  • Yet he's the typical black stereotype by doing nothing but fighting. He's a terrible player.

  • Your a fuckin loser, everyone fights in hocky you pussy (mostly white guys)!

  • good story and inspirational...regardless what you think about his talent or colour or whatever show some respect

  • same old story BOO HOO everyone feel bad for me. you're still a fuckin stiff laraque

  • please dont compare georges laraque to jackie robinson. but he (laraque) was inspired by him.

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  • agreed. I question Laraque's sincerity, in this "because I was black" speech.

  • u probably don even kno wtf that means so stfu

  • stfu racist peace of shit

  • he was born in montreal!

    i didn't know that!

  • george is though guys

  • Big G needs to come back to the Oil

  • shut the hell up

  • His story is very impressive, but the robinson comparisons are ridiculous. o'ree broke the color barrier 40 years ago. im not saying laraques path wasnt tough, but it certainly wasnt jackie robinsons

  • laraque is a BOSS

  • Laraque vs. Brashear is the best NHL fight.

  • Wrong! Laraque and Huggy Bear? I think Belak proved last year why Brashear won't stand there and exchange punches.

  • I love this video, I'm happy to see a guy like Laraque broke the color barrier to blacks in ice hockey.

  • i am a HUGE flyers fan but BGL IS THE MAN

  • I wish we still had him on the pens.

  • Georges Laraque, has to be the nicest fighter (if that makes any sense) I have ever seen in the NHL. He is a good person, but boy can he fight.

  • I sure wish this guy was still on the Oilers.

  • Hahahaha best team ever. Oh ya, what are they doing right now? LMFAO The habs got swept by the Boston Bruins for Christ' sake. Pathetic. By the way, it's the HABS not the HANBS and they are terrible and have been since Roy ditched out on your lame ass team, just like Price is going to do lol.

  • You're stupid. HABS RULE!!!!!! JUST LIKE BIG GEORGES AND PRICE!!!!!!

  • It's not black, it's African Canadian.

  • i guess im irish/english canadian then

  • yeah right

  • He's Haitian Canadian. Not every black person is African.

    And it is black, just like having blue eyes or brown hair.

  • he palyed on the first line and did great he was a great foil for chara and his offense was great, goals don't matter its all about what you do to make chances

  • i wanna see him fight lucic Lucic will be destroyed this guy is a monster :P

  • Who knew he was suck a cool guy.

  • definitely. Don't think down on him just because he plays for the habs. I'm a bruins fan but I still like him. He has a lot of respect the game, the unwritten code of fighting, and other players.

  • yea the code have u ever read the book?

  • because lucic is afraid,simple as that...he only fights guys who dont really fight, and he does nothing but cheapshots.

  • I met him in the finals in Carolina. He is huge. I am 6.1 215 and he towers over me. I am sure glad i dont have to fight him for a living....

  • ya chara and lucic always seem to be really brave when laraque is not on the ice...especially that pussy lucic,fuck i hope that laraque puts him in his place and beats the snot out of him!!!

  • both of them wanted to have a go with him last night but it didn't take off cuz it's the playoffs :( Mark my words, by the end of this series he'll go with Chara if not Lucic too

  • LARAQUE>LUCIC DUMBY

  • why hasnt he yet then?

  • So you hope Chara and Lucic drop the N bomb? WTF is wrong with you dude? Something is definately wrong if u like the kostitsyn bros.

    Laraque will actually do a great job this playoffs, he will scare the bruins D.

    Grow up buddy the N word is not cool

  • Georges RULES!! Go Habs.

  • I just hope Chara and Lucic can drop the N bomb in front of him in the playoffs, he'll take em on at the same time