![]() One of the first issues to come to light in the NHL was chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head. ![]() Yet, in the last decade, players and their families have started to shine a light on the issue. Nobody really knows how many NHL players over the decades fell victim to mental health problems. In keeping with the hockey ethos, these stories best lay forgotten and untold. Suicide and drug overdoses claimed the lives of NHLers living in mental torment and were rarely acknowledged except by grieving family members. Not only that, but hockey heroes didn’t suffer from mental health issues and, if they did, they dealt with their pain in secret, self-medicating through alcohol and/or painkillers. Real hockey players never showed fear or vulnerability, or weakness. It was once said that hockey was played by men with an iron will and murderous determination.
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