OT: RIP Claude Lemieux

[rudedude]

Shocking as he was the torch bearer for the Canadiens game a few days ago!

 

[rudedude]

This is even sadder news

 

[TheBigUglies]

This is really sad and makes me think of a distant friend that discovered he had a terminal cancer and instead of going all the treatments, bills, family stress, etc that comes along with going thru that process, he took his own life. Maybe Claude encountered something like that?

 

[Shepdogg]

Gone too soon.

 

[Chumboshifko1]

This is really sad and makes me think of a distant friend that discovered he had a terminal cancer and instead of going all the treatments, bills, family stress, etc that comes along with going thru that process, he took his own life. Maybe Claude encountered something like that?

It happens. Sadly.

 

[Steve JG]

This is even sadder news

CTE is a major risk factor for suicide in retired athletes. Hockey players take a lot of head shots in their careers and he had multiple known concussions.......

 

[KingLando]

This is really sad and makes me think of a distant friend that discovered he had a terminal cancer and instead of going all the treatments, bills, family stress, etc that comes along with going thru that process, he took his own life. Maybe Claude encountered something like that?

Honestly I get it if that's what happened. Sorry about your friend

 

[Nittering Nabob]

Claude Lemieux was a talented, but very dirty hockey player. He was also a chatte.

Let’s revisit the history of Claude.

I won’t use YouTube as a source of videos because it now requires visitors to sign in.

Let’s rely on images. This one is after he cross-checked Kris Draper into the boards. Kris broke his jaw and lost a bunch of teeth



Now let’s revisit the next season when he was challenged to fight by Darren McCarty

Instead of being a real man and defending himself, he purposely turtled.


Adieu chatte.

 

[Lil Nicky Scarfo]

Claude Lemieux was a talented, but very dirty hockey player. He was also a chatte.

Let’s revisit the history of Claude.

I won’t use YouTube as a source of videos because it now requires visitors to sign in.

Let’s rely on images. This one is after he cross-checked Kris Draper into the boards. Kris broke his jaw and lost a bunch of teeth


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Now let’s revisit the next season when he was challenged to fight by Darren McCarty

Instead of being a real man and defending himself, he purposely turtled.

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Adieu chatte.

I loved Shanahan hammering Roy in mid-air as Roy came out to get McCarty.

That footage never gets old

 

[BobPSU92]

CTE is a major risk factor for suicide in retired athletes. Hockey players take a lot of head shots in their careers and he had multiple known concussions.......

Claude Lemieux's brain being donated for CTE research, family says

Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said.

www.espn.com

 

[rigi19041]

CTE is a major risk factor for suicide in retired athletes. Hockey players take a lot of head shots in their careers and he had multiple known concussions.......

A lot of the players are in multiple high risk groups. Career problems, relationship problems, money problems, health problems and drugs/pain killers.

Any players kill themselves while they were still making big money?

 

[Steve JG]

A lot of the players are in multiple high risk groups. Career problems, relationship problems, money problems, health problems and drugs/pain killers.

Any players kill themselves while they were still making big money?

Loss of identity defining role is a major risk factor for men as well. Not just the money but the ego defining status their “professional” role gives them. Plus loss of money.

 

[Nitt1300]

Claude Lemieux was a talented, but very dirty hockey player. He was also a chatte.

Let’s revisit the history of Claude.

I won’t use YouTube as a source of videos because it now requires visitors to sign in.

Let’s rely on images. This one is after he cross-checked Kris Draper into the boards. Kris broke his jaw and lost a bunch of teeth


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Now let’s revisit the next season when he was challenged to fight by Darren McCarty

Instead of being a real man and defending himself, he purposely turtled.

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Adieu chatte.

speaking ill of the departed says more about the speaker than it does about the departed

 

[Nittering Nabob]

speaking ill of the departed says more about the speaker than it does about the departed

I said he was talented

 

[KingLando]

I said he was talented

Like or hate Lemieux he was an elite player, a winner and an agitator. A real man isn't dumb enough to fight someone that they can't beat. Being a man doesn't mean you have to be an idiot. He handled it correctly by refusing.