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Originally Posted by Beatle17
Both depression issues that had been going on for years and actually had nothing to do with fighting. It was and is a terrible thing but they are two totally different things.
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You can't possibly know that. Both players were enforcers who had (barely) cemented their place in the NHL by way of the ONLY skill that provided a place for them there. Each having spent their entire adult life fighting for a living on skates, it is absolutely reasonable to question the extent to which their profession and the risks attached affected their own mental states.