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INDIANAPOLIS -- Hank Steinbrenner is bullish about the New York Yankees future.The teams co-chairman thinks young players who came up late this season such as Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin and others still developing in the farm system can soon become the face of New Yorks next dynasty. He hopes for a group much like Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada, who formed a core in the 1990s that won five titles.When the new group starts winning consistently, Steinbrenner says the Yankees will make the kind of long-term investment that would make his late father proudOnce we get it there, well keep it there and we will spend to do so, Steinbrenner told The Associated Press on Thursday. We will spend to do so.Steinbrenner, 59, and 20-year-old son George Steinbrenner IV joined former racing star and current IndyCar team owner Michael Andretti at a news conference Thursday to introduce their partnership in the Indy Lights Series.Hank Steinbrenner, the older brother of managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner, faces a different financial system than the one conquered by their father, George M. Steinbrenner III. New York won seven World Series titles as George Steinbrenner lavished money on free agents while he owned the team from 1973 until his death in 2010, but revenue sharing and a luxury tax have curbed spending.The new collective bargaining agreement raises the luxury tax threshold by $6 million to $195 million next year and leaves the rate for exceeding that level at 50 percent. But the deal, ratified this week, and imposes a 12 percent surtax that start at $215 million, where the Yankees are likely to be at the seasons start, through $235 million. The surtax rises to 45 percent above that.With high expectations for the players who made debuts last season, Steinbrenner does not expect them to succumb to high expectations. And with shortstop Gleyber Torres, outfielders Clint Frazier and Rashad Crawford and left-hander Justus Sheffield, in their minors following their acquisitions in trades for Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller.It is different being a Yankee than it is playing for any other team, Steinbrenner said. We try to focus on finding players who can handle that situation. We dont expect them to have any more pressure than any other young players, but it is different being a Yankee.Revenue sharing has forced the Yankees to change the way they stock their roster, although Steinbrenner thinks revisions to the plan may help New York in the short term.Revenue sharing is a sore point with me, not necessarily the Yankees, just me, Steinbrenner said. My dad didnt have revenue sharing. But our fans love home-grown players who come through the system. They get very attached to those players.Almost as much as the fans get attached to winning, which drives attendance and ratings on the YES Network.Winning does a lot for that, and winning big does a lot for that, Steinbrenner said. Its what we all want. Don Gullett Jersey . -- Sergey Tolchinksy scored his second goal of the game 3:56 into overtime as the Sault Ste. Aristides Aquino Jersey . Hey!" The lower tier of the School End of Queens Park Rangers Loftus Road was packed solid with a very festive-sounding Chelsea choral section in this particular part of South Africa Road London, W12. https://www.cheapredsjerseys.us/1625s-leo-cardenas-jersey-reds.html . - Derek Wolfe says hes finally healthy after suffering a seizure in November that doctors now believe was related to the spinal cord injury he suffered in the preseason. Joey Votto Jersey . 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He never played for the Rangers again.Dale Diesel Purinton was no stranger to the penalty box at any point in his career. While playing midget hockey for the Moose Jaw Warriors in Saskatchewan, he racked up 107 penalty minutes in 34 games. He was 16 years old.Purinton was an enforcer, commonly referred to as a goon in hockey parlance. His job was to intimidate the opposing team and protect his teams star players -- usually by using bodily force. That job came with a hefty price, however. He battled constant headaches, nausea, forgetfulness, depression, irrationality and suicidal thoughts during his career, and he developed a drug addiction. Purinton believes he suffered at least 10 on-ice concussions. Yet he kept silent because of the very real fear of being replaced if he spoke up about his injuries.I just wouldnt tell anyone, Purinton, now 40, said by phone from his home on Vancouver Island. Our mentality growing up is that you train your whole life to do these jobs and [admitting to being injured] is a sign of weakness. I remember throwing up after a game, but I wouldnt tell anyone because I knew that they would bring someone else up [in my place].Purinton said living with multiple concussions dramatically changed his life.I couldnt finish one task, he said. The only thing I could really do is get on my riding lawn mower because its the only thing I could focus on for a longer period of time.Purintons worst concussion happened March 30, 2004, in a game against the New Jersey Devils,?when he collided with Devils forward Jamie Langenbrunner.I got kicked in the chin with a skate, and I landed right on the ice, Purinton said.Purinton felt woozy and had to be helped off the ice by his Rangers teammates. That was his final regular-season NHL game. And he was fine with that.By the end, I didnt even want to be a hockey player anymore, Purinton said. I was the most depressed and isolated and loneliest Ive ever been, and thats when I used the most drugs and alcohol because I just didnt know how to cope with life.Purinton became notorious for his violent antics on the ice later in his career, but he said there was a reason behind it.[I was] looking for a way to get out of hockey because something was wrong with me, he said.He was repeatedly warned that if he kept playing like a common goon, he would be fired. Acting up was his cry for help. He spent the final years of his career with the farm teams for the Rangers and the?Colorado Avalanche before calling it quits in 2007 after being suspended for sucker-punching an opponent.In the summer of 2015, he hit rock bottom when he was arrested for burglary and assault after he broke into an acquaintances home in upstate New York and roughed up the owner. He served four months at a maximum security prison earlier this year. Purinton, who found life among federal inmates to be a far cry from the penalty box, maintains that his fall from grace was all the result of concussions.Purinton has three young sons, all of whom play hockkey.dddddddddddd Fearing that they could also face concussions, he joined more than 100 fellow former players in a class-action lawsuit against the NHL aimed at holding the league accountable for their life-altering injuries.We need to look at their future as well, Purinton said. For me not to do anything would not have been the right thing to do.The players allege that the NHL did not do enough to care for its players, including not warning them about the long-term effects of brain injuries. The NHL argues that the players willingly entered the game and should have known the risks involved with the sport.Its hard for me to believe that [NHL commissioner] Gary Bettman can still try and tuck this under the rug and just blow it off like these guys arent human, Purinton said. They are struggling, and they have families and kids, and they are having a very hard time trying to live.Purinton owes much of his recovery to his wife, Temple Greenleaf. She first noticed a change in his mental state around 2003.I was starting to see signs that his job was not a normal job and that it was taking its toll on him mentally, she said. I thought there was a substance-abuse problem. He would kind of go up and down with depression and anxiety. It was this vicious cycle.Fearing for Purintons health, Greenleaf reached out to the NHLPA for help, but she said her concerns fell on deaf ears.The union called [former Rangers general manager] Glen Sather, and then they kind of brushed it under the rug and said, Clean up your act, Greenleaf said. The Rangers had no comment for this story.Purintons condition got worse after he retired.?In 2013, I forced Dales hand and made him call [the NHLPA]. He spoke to somebody in the union, she said, fighting tears. He said that he was having suicidal thoughts, and he needed some help, and he was really struggling. They said they would get back to him, but they just didnt deem him bad enough.Purinton did finally undergo treatment for his substance abuse. In the months between his arrest and his prison term, he spent 11 weeks at the Cedars Cobble Hill Treatment Center on Vancouver Island. It was paid for by the NHLPA.Now a year sober, Purinton is trying to help others who have been in his skates. In September, he and other former players spoke with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in an effort to draw attention to head injuries in hockey. Within the next year, he hopes to start a foundation aimed at helping other athletes struggling with addiction.I need to do my part, so Im starting a society here in Canada to pay for peoples treatment, he said. Im going to eventually meet with the NHL to work with people with post-traumatic addiction problems and a wide range of obsessive-compulsive behaviors.He wants to call the group Homies Help Homies, after a catchphrase he heard in a cartoon show.Greenleaf sees a silver lining in her husbands suffering.He is now doing so much better, and I think the greatest gift through this whole thing is that he wants to help other guys, she said.Thirteen years after Greenleaf first feared Purintons atypical occupation was causing him irreparable harm, he now has a normal job. He is a logger on Vancouver Island.?He still loves hockey. But he wants the NHL to provide treatment for the players who need it -- and make the sport safer for everyone, including his kids.I want to help people, he said. I want to give back. Its what I was meant to do. ' ' '