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RIP Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, & Wade Belak (no more, plz!) RIP Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, & Wade Belak (no more, plz!)

03-17-2015 , 12:12 AM
Fifth Estate is a great program and they recently did this episode on the death of Boogaard and the effect of painkillers in pro sports:

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10-19-2021 , 06:59 PM
https://www.tsn.ca/a-decade-after-hi...eath-1.1708676

re: jimmy hayes, another one

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“Right off the hop, the NHL pointed the finger at Derek and said he did this to himself... In fact, the NHL and its teams and doctors did everything they could to stop me from getting to the truth. …All I wanted was to get to the truth about what had happened with my son.”

Boogaard spent years fighting the NHL for access to Derek’s medical records. They showed during his final 2 years in the NHL, doctors with 7 teams gave Derek 13 Toradol injections. During the 2008-09 season alone, he was prescribed 1,021 pills from a dozen different doctors.
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10-22-2021 , 08:31 PM
Something should be done. Take fighting out altogether, for starters.
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