They don't get any more badass than hockey players.
I watched the game when Mario came back from his first chemo and played that night. He actually skated better that night than he had in a week or two. That poor bastard played through more injury than I could even imagine. You could kill him and he'd be on the ice that night.
Our announcer, Tom Lange, got mugged before a game one afternoon. He got all his teeth kicked in and half his face tore off. He called the game that night. Never missed a minute of work.
That's how badass the boys from the Burgh are.
I gotta give it up for Malarchuk. That's a hockey player right there, friends.