A close friend of Claude Lemieux says the late NHL legend handled the alleged “injustice” before his untimely death.
“He always lived this as an injustice, a heavy burden to bear,” Réjean Tremblaya Montreal hockey writer and friend who has known Lemieux for 30 years, said The New York Post in an interview published on Saturday, May 30, saying that the late hockey star was “too sensitive to rejection” and, as a result, did not face the fact that he was not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame following his retirement in 2009.
“The feeling of rejection was deeper than expected,” Tremblay continued. “He took it hard.”
The NHL legend was found dead on Thursday, May 28, by one of his three sons. He was 60 years old. His death was later ruled a suicide.
“The National Hockey League mourns the passing of Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and one of the greatest players in hockey history,” NHL Commissioner. Gary Bettman said the statement. Lemieux – who played 21 seasons in the NHL between 1983 and 2009 – is survived by his wife, Deborahdaughter Claudia, these sons Brendan, Christopher again Michael.
“I love you, father! My son.” [Luc’s] favorite person will look up for a while,” Lemieux’s son Brendan wrote on Instagram, breaking the silence after his father’s shocking death. “We’ll see.”
The NHL star’s death came just three days after he made an emotional appearance in Game 3 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday, May 25. Lemieux served as a light fixture before the game. (Lemieux played for the Canadiens from 1983 to 1990.)
“It’s possible that intense love, that wave of love on Monday evening, stirred up emotions that were too strong,” Tremblay said. The New York Postquoting other friends of Lemieux, in each place. “It may rekindle old pains, old sufferings.”
Colombe Lacroixanother close friend of the hockey star who was reportedly at the scene with the surviving family on Thursday, The New York Posttold the media that Lemieux was “going through a difficult time” and was allegedly “depressed” before his death.
“They didn’t expect that at all,” he added about the player’s death by suicide. “They never saw it coming. It’s so painful, everyone is looking down.”
Widow of the former general manager of the Colorado Avalanche Pierre Lacroixwho became close to Lemieux and his wife when Lemieux played for the Avalanche from 1995 to 1999, then recalled the last time he visited with the legendary hockey player.
He said: “I grabbed Claude and said thank you for supporting me The New York Post on Saturday. “He left our world too soon and I hope he is in a better palace and happy.”
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