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Claude Lemieux, a four‑time Stanley Cup champion and longtime NHL enforcer, died by suicide on May 28. His passing has reignited dialogue about mental‑health challenges in professional hockey and the broader societal pressures that silence many men.
After his death at 60, the brain of longtime NHL forward Claude Lemieux was gifted to Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, with his family urging the research to shed light on the hidden dangers of repeated head impacts.
After his death at 60, Claude Lemieux’s brain will be examined at Boston University’s CTE Center, a move the family says could help protect future athletes.