Bryan Marchment fought numerous times in his career. Photo from 2004. ZUMAWIRE / MVPHOTOS
53 years old Bryan Marchment passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday in Montreal during the NHL booking ceremony. Marchment had long been San Jose’s talent scout.
Marchment’s cause of death is not yet known.
In his playing career, Marchment was largely known as a brawler, and he got no fewer than 2,307 ice minutes in his 926 NHL games. With this amount, he is 31st in the ice hypermarket of all time.
Like Marchment, the lives of many other fist heroes have ended too soon.
The most tragic example must have accumulated 3,300 minutes of ice time Bob Probertwho died of a heart attack at the age of 45 while boating.
Probert suffered from serious substance abuse problems during his life. His brain was found postmortem to show signs of CTE, the development of which is promoted by multiple blows to the head.
A fighter who played six seasons in the NHL Derek Boogaard died at only 28 years old in 2011 due to the mixed use of alcohol and painkillers. Boogaard’s brain also showed signs of CTE.
Almost 2,000 minutes on the ice in 518 matches Todd Ewen died at the age of 49 by shooting himself in the head. Ewen had suffered from depression for years and was also posthumously diagnosed with CTE.
In addition to the aforementioned, there have been NHL fighters who died young, among others Wade Belak (35, suicide), Marc Potvin (38, suicide), John Kordic (27, drug overdose) and Rick Rypie (27, suicide).
CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy
– A progressively worsening degenerative brain disease associated with repeated blows to the head over a long period of time.
– Causes changes in a person’s thinking, personality, mood and behavior.
– These feelings sometimes lead to complications such as accidents, drug and alcohol abuse and suicides.
– CTE can only be definitively diagnosed in an autopsy, when the person is dead.
Source: Terveyttä.net