Former NHL enforcer Barry Beck opens up on his son's murder; You feel like you are in hell'

Barry Beck took a lot of hard knocks during his 11-year NHL career. As an enforcer, he also dished a lot of them out. Nothing he went through, though has prepared him for the loss of his son's due to a stabbing in July.

"You feel like you are in hell, and there is no light,” said Beck in an interview with the South China Morning Post . “And you feel like that every day.”

Beck is Canadian, but has lived in Hong Kong for the last 13 years working for the Hong Kong Academy of Ice Hockey as its general manager and coach.

"I live alone, so it's tough to try to sleep at night,” said Beck, who played 615 NHL games over his career with the Colorado Rockies, New York Rangers and LA Kings. “That is the image that you have in your head – of your son being stabbed to death. And so I am trying to put that image out of my mind and think about the good memories.”

Beck's son was killed after an apparent road rage incident in Hamilton, Ontario on July 26th. Police believe the assailants did not know Brock Beck or another person involved in the incident. Brock was visiting his mother at the time. Police have released descriptions of two suspects and have potentially linked a white sedan car to the crime, but have yet to apprehend anyone related to the case.

A GoFundMe page has been set up by one of Beck's friends who lives in New York. Beck was captain of the New York Rangers for five years, and played seven seasons with the squad between 1979 and 1986 as a hard-nosed, take-no-prisoners defender.

Beck's career spanned more than a decade, starting in 1977 and ending in 1990 with the Los Angeles Kings. He amassed more than 1,000 penalty minutes. He was a second overall pick of the Colorado Rockies in 1977. He was also drafted second overall by the Calgary Cowboys of the now defunct World Hockey Association, but chose to go to the NHL.

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