Career
Lakovic also played for four roller hockey teams in the mid-1990s. Lakovic has attempted to start a career in acting, landing a small role as Russian ice hockey player Boris Mikhailov in the 2004 Walt Disney movie Miracle. Lakovic, nicknamed the "Pit Bulletin" for his aggressiveness, turned pro in 1992-1993, playing for three separate Colonial Hockey League teams, as well as the American Hockey League"s Binghamton Rangers.
Lakovic bounced around the ECHL, Central Hockey League, International Hockey League and AHL for a few more seasons, including an incident where he got on all fours and barked to the crowd after destroying Barry Potomski in a fight as a Las Vegas Thunder enforcer.
Lakovic moved on to National Hockey League"s Calgary Flames in 1996-1997. and was dealt to the New Jersey Devils a year later. Lakovic would play only 37 National Hockey League games before finishing his career with stops in the West Coast Hockey League, and finally the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey before retiring following the 2004-2005 season.
Lakovic became known as an enforcer, registering 397 penalty minutes in his first pro season. During the hockey offseason, Lakovic played roller hockey for three Roller Hockey International teams from 1993-1997, and in the Major League Roller Hockey in 1998.
Battle of Alberta
Lakovic gained widespread attention on November 23, 1996 when playing in his first, and only, Battle of Alberta game between the Flames and the Edmonton Oilers.
Late in the game, played at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, a drunken fan reached over the glass, dumping his drink on the head of Flames assistant coach Guy Lapointe. Lakovic immediately jumped over the glass attempting to get at the fan. Held back from climbing over by his teammates, Lakovic was suspended two games for the incident.