When people say hockey players are tough, Kris Draper stands as living ... That's right. Draper, despite a crushed-in face, wanted to re-enter the fray. Or maybe it was because of his crushed ...

DETROIT RED Wings center Kris Draper ... where he will have the operation. Draper already has 40 stitches in his right cheek and the right side of his face is swollen and bruised.

DENVER - It has been nearly 20 years since the infamous hit that ignited what became hockey's most heated rivalry for several years -- Claude Lemieux's check from behind on Kris Draper.

Update from Red Wings practice: Kris Draper said he still hasn't been cleared by doctors, so he won't play in Game 4 Thursday. Draper, who has missed the last five games with an upper-body injury ...

DETROITDETROIT — Kris Draper loved playing hockey and ... penalty killers and face-off men, Draper helped the Red Wings win four Stanley Cups (1997, 1998, 2002 and 2008). Not bad for a player ...

"I saw the blood on the ice, but I didn’t know the right side of my face was caved in." That is how former Red Wings player Kris Draper remembers the beginning of what would be a vicious year ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Detroit forward Kris Draper ... the Avalanche's Claude Lemieux shoved Draper into the boards, causing a facial injury that required plastic surgery.

Kris Draper’s career with the ... I just remember being on all fours.” When Draper got up — to a chorus of boos from fans — his face was buried in a towel. Wharton and Keith Primeau ...