John Kordic
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| Position | Forward |
| Shoots | Right |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 210 lb (95 kg; 14 st 0 lb) |
| Pro clubs | NHL Montreal Canadiens Toronto Maple Leafs Washington Capitals Quebec Nordiques AHL Sherbrooke Canadiens Newmarket Saints Cape Breton Oilers |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | March 22, 1966, Edmonton, AB, CAN |
| Died | August 8, 1992 (aged 26), Quebec City, QC, CAN |
| Pro career | 1985 – 1992 |
John "Rambo" Kordic (March 22, 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta - August 8, 1992 in Quebec City, Quebec) was a hockey player in the National Hockey League. He played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals, and Quebec Nordiques. He spent 7 seasons in the league and earned a reputation as being an enforcer, amassing nearly 1000 penalty minutes in 244 games. He won the Calder Cup with Sherbrooke Canadiens in 1985, and a Stanley Cup with Montreal Canadiens in 1986.
While on the Toronto Maple Leafs, he wore #27, formerly worn by Leaf greats Darryl Sittler and Frank Mahovlich. He was of Croatian descent.
On August 8, 1992, several police officers were called in to restrain Kordic, who was trashing a room at the Motel Maxim in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec. Following a struggle with police, Kordic was taken to hospital in an ambulance, where he lost consciousness and subsequently died of heart failure and a collapsed lung. A coroner's inquest later determined that Kordic had 0.1 milligrams of cocaine in his system, which according to Dr. Georges Miller, was the most cocaine he had ever seen in a person's blood in his twenty years of practice. At his time of death, Kordic was only 27 years old. [1]
John's brother Dan Kordic, who was also primarily known as an enforcer, spent the 1990s in the Philadelphia Flyers organization.
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[edit] Career statistics
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1982–83 | Portland Winter Hawks | WHL | 72 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 235 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 30 | ||
| 1983–84 | Portland Winter Hawks | WHL | 67 | 9 | 50 | 59 | 232 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 56 | ||
| 1984–85 | Sherbrooke Canadiens | AHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||
| 1983–84 | Portland Winter Hawks | WHL | 25 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 73 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1984–85 | Seattle Breakers | WHL | 46 | 17 | 36 | 53 | 154 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1985–86 | Sherbrooke Canadiens | AHL | 68 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 238 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1985–86 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | ||
| 1986–87 | Sherbrooke Canadiens | AHL | 10 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 49 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1986–87 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 44 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 151 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19 | ||
| 1987–88 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 60 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 159 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 26 | ||
| 1988–89 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1988–89 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 46 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 185 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1989–90 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 55 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 252 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33 | ||
| 1990–91 | Newmarket Saints | AHL | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 79 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1990–91 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1990–91 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1991–92 | Cape Breton Oilers | AHL | 12 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 141 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 53 | ||
| 1991–92 | Quebec Nordiques | NHL | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 115 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| NHL Totals | 244 | 17 | 18 | 35 | 997 | 41 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 131 | ||||
