The former golden goalkeeper of the Czech national team died at home at the age of 52.
Roman Cechmanek’s death shocks the man’s homeland in the Czech Republic. PDO
The Czech puck legend who passed away at the weekend Roman Cechman too more information has been received about the death.
According to Blesk The autopsy performed on Cechmanek excludes suicide and a crime as the reasons for the death of the 52-year-old ex-guard. However, the exact cause of death was not made public.
Cechmanek did not suffer from diseases, but he had problems with his other hand. He treated it with various health care products. The public has not been told whether these treatments had an effect on Cechmanek’s death.
Cechmanek was found dead in his home over the weekend. He was supposed to go watch hockey with his sons, but he never made it to the arena with them. When the father did not respond to messages, the worried son went to his home and made a tragic discovery.
Cechmanek became very familiar to Finnish hockey fans at the turn of the millennium from the Czech national team. He celebrated the world championship in 1996, 1999 and 2000. The Olympic gold was strung around his neck in 1998. At that time, he was the team’s second goalkeeper Dominik Hasek too a pair of roosters.
In the NHL, Cechmanek played 212 games for the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings from 2000 to 2004. In the spring of 2001, he played in the NHL all-star game. He ended his hockey career in the spring of 2009 in his home country.
After his playing career, Cechmanek got into serious financial difficulties. When he died, despite his NHL earnings, he had millions in debt.
Cechmanek’s old club Vsetin honored the memory of their former star player in a great way on Wednesday. Cechmanek, who saved numerous Czech championships for the club in the 90s, had a minute’s silence before the start of the match.
In addition, the game was called off in the 23rd minute of the match. Cechmanek saved pucks in the team with that game number.