Former Quinte Hawks and National Hockey League Player Mike Danton says his five-and-a-half year stint in prison saved his life.
In an interview with Rogers Sportsnet, Danton, who was on the Hawks in 1995-96, says he was a mess when he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in 2004, but added he became a changed man in prison.
He says he was paranoid someone was trying to murder him while he was playing for the Saint Louis Blues, and hired a hit man to kill the supposed perpetrator.
Authorities thought the target of the plot was his former agent, David Frost, but Danton, who was paroled from a Kingston prison in September, told Sportsnet it was his father, Steve Jefferson.
