Darren McCarty

Welcome to Huddle up with Gus featuring 15-year NFL Quarterback Gus Frerotte! Gus welcomes NFL hockey great Darren McCarty to the huddle and talk about how sports helped shape their youth, what professional sports was like from the players perspective and how life has been since playing. A Canadian former professional ice hockey forward, Darrian is best known for his years playing with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). McCarty has been known for taking on the role of the Red Wings enforcer most of his career, a role in which he won the Stanley Cup four times in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2008, the last of which after resurrecting his career in the Red Wings minor league system. Darrian spent much of his childhood in the small town of Leamington, Ontario, playing for the Southpoint Capitals (OMHA) minor teams.