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🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Episode 203
Bobby Robins is a retired professional ice hockey player who finished his career with the Boston Bruins Organization. He played professionally in many leagues across the world including the National Hockey League, American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, and stints in the Elite Ice Hockey League in the United Kingdom and the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League in Austria.
He retired in 2015 after a concussion forced him out of the game. Robins skated in over 500 professional hockey games and have over 150 professional fights.
Robins holds a place in the history books as the oldest rookie to make an NHL Opening Day Roster with the Boston Bruins at age 32, after 8 seasons in the minor leagues.
In part 2 of our podcast, Bobby shares his incredible story of depression, drugs and coming to faith in Christ. He also tells us why he decided to use his Twitter page as a place to share his faith by reading the Bible in a year LIVE online. The story he tells here is powerful.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our |
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| 1:07.8 | podcast part two of our conversation with bob Robbins, the former pro hockey player. |
| 1:12.5 | If you listen to part one of the podcast, you heard Bobby's story about making it to the NHL, |
| 1:17.6 | about how hockey had become his God, and about how in many ways he had walked away from this God, this religion, this faith that was instilled in him when he was a kid. |
| 1:29.3 | And that was really an interesting conversation. |
| 1:32.0 | We also talked about fighting. |
| 1:33.2 | Bobby was what they call an enforcer during his time in the NHL and how he became a fighter |
| 1:38.9 | over 150 pro fights in professional hockey for Bobby. |
| 1:43.7 | So we talked about that in part one, but part two is where it takes a |
| 1:49.0 | a turn. We'll just say that a crazy turn and it's this podcast this part two of the conversation with Bobby Robin |
| 1:57.0 | It consists of maybe the craziest story I've ever heard And it's not a bad story at all when I say |
| 2:02.8 | crazy. I just mean it's so improbable in how Bobby came to faith in Christ, really renewed his |
| 2:09.2 | faith and really just had an experience and encounter with the living God in a way that I have not |
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