Nesterenko infamously required 15 stitches in his head after Willie O\'Ree, the first black player in the NHL, retaliated with his stick after Nesterenko had knocked out his two front teeth and taunted him with racial slurs.\n', '

Nesterenko was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba to immigrants from Ukraine. He attended high school at North Toronto Collegiate Institute.\n', '

In 1986, he played the father of character Dean Youngblood (Rob Lowe) in the movie Youngblood, and was also the film\'s hockey consultant. He has worked as a disk jockey, a stockbroker, a travel broker, a freelance writer, a university professor and a ski instructor.\n', '

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