Chris Nilan, one of Claude Lemieux’s former teammates on the Montreal Canadiens, has shared a photo with the NHL legend, ...

Nilan and Lemieux played together for the Canadiens for four-plus seasons, beginning in the 1983-84 season until the 1988 trade that sent Nilan to the Rangers.

Chris Nilan felt sick to his stomach Thursday when he learned his former Canadiens teammate Claude Lemieux died by suicide at age 60. Three nights earlier, Nilan spent time in the Canadiens’ alumni ...

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2012, file photo former NHL tough guy Chris Nilan poses for a portrait while promoting the documentary "The Last Gladiators," in Toronto. Nilan had a far greater fight than one ...

Former Canadien Chris Nilan — a regular guest on the weekly Hockey Inside/Out Show and our bonus episodes — was given the honour of carrying the team’s famous torch into the Bell Centre ahead of Game ...

Chris Nilan holds out a pair of gnarled hands and wonders if he could have been a doctor. Maybe a few hapless victims of his powerful punches over a 13-year NHL career wish Nilan took a different ...

Chris Nilan fought more than 300 times during a pro hockey career, then had years of addiction and anger problems. A high-risk candidate for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Nilan is being studied by ...

Chris Nilan has, at various points, had five Stanley Cup rings -- and he says none of them wound up on Whitey Bulger's finger. Nilan's former mother-in-law was a longtime partner of Bulger, the ...

Chris Nilan insists he’s no longer into conflict or negativity, which would seem antithetical to his gig as a sports radio talk show host in Montreal. But the kid from West Roxbury — ninth all-time on ...

PITTSFIELD – Just hours after Meredith D. Nilan, the daughter of Berkshire Superior Court Probation Chief Clifford J. Nilan, was arraigned on charges related to an alleged hit-and-run incident, her ...