Claude Lemieux’s friends say he suffered injustice before death

close friends Claude Lemieux Claims the late NHL legend suffered an alleged ‘injustice’ before his death die young.

“He always saw it as an injustice, a heavy burden,” Rejean TremblayMontreal hockey columnist and friend of Lemieux for 30 years tells us new york post In an interview published on Saturday, May 30, he claimed that the late hockey star was “very sensitive to rejection” and therefore never got over the fact that he was not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame after retiring in 2009.

“The feeling of rejection is deeper than people think,” Tremblay further claimed. “He was very upset.”

this NHL legend found dead Thursday, May 28, one of his three sons. He is 60 years old. his death is It was later determined to be suicide.

“The National Hockey League mourns the passing of Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and one of the greatest big-game players in hockey history,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bateman said in a statement. Lemieux played 21 seasons in the NHL from 1983 to 2009 and is survived by his wife; Deborahdaughter claudia, and sons Brendan, Christopher and Michael.

“I love you dad! My son (Luke)’s favorite person will be watching from above for a while,” Lemieux’s son Brendan wrote on Instagram. break his silence ‘We’ll see you’ after his father’s shocking death.

The NHL star passed away on Monday, May 25, three days after making an emotional appearance in Game 3 of the NHL Eastern Conference Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes. Lemieux served as a torch bearer before the game. (Lemieux played for the Canadiens from 1983 to 1990.)

“That wave of love on Monday night may have triggered an emotion that was too strong,” Tremblay claimed. new york postThe outlet quoted other friends of Lemieux as saying. “It can reawaken old pain, old pain.”

Colombe LacroixAnother close friend of the hockey star was reportedly at the scene Thursday with surviving family members new york posttold the outlet that Lemieux had been “going through a rough time” and was reportedly “depressed” before his death.

“They didn’t expect this at all,” she added of the player’s death by suicide. “They never saw it coming. It was so devastating, everyone was turned upside down.”

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Widow of former Colorado Avalanche general manager Pierre LacroixShe was close to the Lemieux couple when he played for the Avalanche from 1995 to 1999, and she recalled the last time she visited the famous hockey player.

“I held Claude in my arms and I said thank you for being there for me,” she told new york post Saturday. “He left our world too soon and I hope he is in a better palace and that he is happy.”

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