Former St. Louis Blues right-winger Jim Campbell is seeking an order of protection in St. Louis County Circuit Court against his mother-in-law — claiming that he fears the 68-year-old woman will physically harm him.But the lawyer representing Linda Henley says in a letter to the former hockey star that his assertions are simply ridiculous. As a professional athlete, notes attorney Albert Watkins, Campbell "punched in at 6'2", 205 pounds"— adding, "It is understood you've put on more than a handful of pounds since."
Henley is much smaller: Campbell writes in his own petition that she's 5'7" and 140 pounds (although, it should be noted, the hockey star isn't one for details: asked to provide the color of his mother-in-law's eyes, he writes, "blue?").
Yet by filing the petition, the 44-year-old Campbell is accusing the "frail" grandmother of "knowingly and intentionally" placing him "in apprehension of immediate physical harm," Watkins writes.
"Perhaps your future-former mother-in-law should have played professional hockey," Watkins snipes.…