[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by old-fart

If I recall he sued Bertie and the Nucks, not the NHL. There was something about a suit against Crawford as well (I think) but that might have been between Bertie and Crawford or something... I can't recall all the details because I'm an old-fart.

Yes, it is somewhat hard to prove lost income from a job you never had, but you can certainly look at a bunch of Harvard (or Ivy league school) business grads, with a high profile sports career, and look at what the average of them have gone on to do post playing career. Similar to how you can look at his NHL career to that point, look at other players NHL career to the same age with the same background, and project what his likely NHL income would have been had he not been attacked from behind.

It makes no difference that he "might" have gotten injured at some other point in his career, just like it makes no difference that he "might" have gotten hit by a car later that very night if he didn't take an ambulance to the hospital.

Yes it does.