CHRISTOPHER BOWMAN DEAD

I've written about Chris here, here, and here.

Details about his death, here.

Damn.

I worked with Chris as a researcher when he and Judy Blumberg did commentary for ESPN in 1999. We spent a couple of days together locked in a small room (I was pregnant at the time, so the room felt really, really small).

He was charming and personable and uncontrolable. Exactly the same way he was on the ice.

I'd give him research, he'd nod, pretend to read it, then toss it aside and say whatever the heck he wanted. Sometimes it was great. Sometimes it made no sense.

Exactly the same way he was on the ice.