Boogaard, Rypien, and Belak, too, were each well liked and respected. They will be unfairly lumped together because of their deaths rather than their lives — they were different players in different circumstances — but the common theme after their departures was how much each of them was loved.
Tag Archives: Wade Belak
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Wade Belak’s final hours
The night before he was found dead of a suspected suicide, the former NHL enforcer was out on the town and in good spirits
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