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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Not saying you're completely wrong but my favorite age of NHL hockey was the 70's, no helmets, no mouthguards just fights,brawls,stickwork and elbows. blood was scraped from the ice fairly regularly back then but for some reason and I could be wrong but I can't think of one player who committed suicide because of head trauma playing hockey.
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I can only think of 4 off hand and of those suicides it sounded like Boogaard was an accidental overdose, Belak's sounded like it was an accident too, Rypien and Montador were the only that sounded like they were intended suicides. Also it sounds like Belak and Rypien also suffered from mental illness for their entire lives.
I've askied this question before and no one could give me an answer. How do we know enforcers mental illness is caused by fighting and not them doing self harm because they were already mentally ill?