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TORONTO – Derek Sanderson recalls mixing cocktails in a salad spinner and consuming four bottles of Soave Bolla wine before noon "just to get square." Then there were the pills and drugs and the ...

Derek Sanderson Didn't Always Smoke and Pray at the Same Time Now 66, Sanderson revisits the days of being one of the baddest Bruins in town. By Alan Siegel · 11/13/2012, 10:47 a.m.

Top photo: Derek Sanderson lifts his stick in celebration behind an airborne Bobby Orr after having set up the latter’s Game 4 Stanley Cup-clinching overtime goal against the St. Louis Blues on ...

Once a flamboyant celebrity/athlete, he became a cliche by drinking and drugging his way to the gutter. Then, he cleaned himself up . . . and just in time. Barely.

Not everyone remembers former NHL player Derek Sanderson, but NBC Vice President Mark Levy has a fact that seems to pique people’s interest about him. “It widens everyone’s eyes when we tell ...

Derek Sanderson is in the news, again, like a blast from the past, and somehow or other he reminded me of another New York Ranger, namely Sean Avery. Sanderson is in the news because he is ...

Derek Sanderson is 66 now, and some three million tales later, as well as at least a couple of extra lives, there remains an impish, engaging freshness about him. Bill Brett for The Globe / File.

Derek Sanderson recalls mixing cocktails in a salad spinner and consuming four bottles of Soave Bolla wine before noon ''just to get square.'' Then there were the pills and drugs and the women the ...

Derek Sanderson was never one to save or seriously collect items for himself. Over time, though, things accumulated anyway. So Sanderson has cleaned house – or at least, some closets and basements.

Sanderson played his last NHL game on Apr. 9, 1978. In 598 games, he scored 202 goals and 250 assists for 452 points. The former Calder Trophy winner racked up 911 penalty minutes and finished his ...