00:00He did have some sad news over the past week.
00:01As we talked about right here on this show, Claude Lemieux passing away due to suicide.
00:06Now, here's what the family is doing.
00:08They've chosen to donate his brain to Unite Brain Bank at the Boston University CTE Center for Research
00:14into long-term effects of repetitive head impacts and traumatic brain injury.
00:18And you say, well, that's kind of what? No, it's not.
00:20Like a 60-year-old guy, like when you were playing hockey in the 70s, 80s, and 90s,
00:24same thing in the NFL, they don't treat concussions nearly the same way.
00:27Hey, do you see one or two fingers? Two? Good. Get back out there.
00:31Hey, I just got knocked out on the ice.
00:32Oh, look, he returned back for the third period here.
00:34We don't do that anymore because we know more about these brain injuries.
00:37And for somebody that just had such a high on the ice throughout his career,
00:42brought back as a hero into Montreal where they were trying to fight their way to a Stanley Cup
00:47and getting all that crowd adoration there once you got in,
00:50and it turns out a few days later he passed his way due to suicide.
00:54I like when the families do this, Joe, because, you know, it's tough and it's public
00:58and they're donating his brain to society, basically.
01:00But hopefully this gives us some answers on the impact of how we can actually avoid this here
01:06and make the science better that goes into concussions.
01:10It's just such a sad story, Donnie. It really was.
01:14I mean, to think where just a couple of nights prior, the way they celebrated him,
01:18and rightfully so, the guy is one of the all-time greats in one of the blue-blood organizations
01:23in the NHL, in the Montreal Canadiens, and he was just, I mean, a legend.
01:30And then, you know, to come on, you just don't know what folks are going through, man.
01:35But, you know, there's, you know, you got to kind of wonder here, and you're right.
01:41I mean, we hear about guys playing with broken spleens, like, after one, like, what are we doing here?
01:46Yeah, it's a cautionary tale, so it's good that at least they're going to,
01:52they donated and are going to try to get some answers in a situation that you may never find the
02:00right answer.
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