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 Post subject: Marek Svatos RIP
PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 12:56 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:16 pm 
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Horrible news. Might be drug-related.

http://eurolanche.com/article.php?id=8626

Hell of a player, but he just didn't have the durability. I hope to God that didn't play a part in this.


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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:26 pm 
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Very sad. Post career, I would imagine he lived with an incredible amount of pain.


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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
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Brutal :(

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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:50 pm 
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I read somewhere yesterday it was an accidental OD of medicine.

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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
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The Blues had a moment of silence before the game the other day. Very classy move by them.

His hometown team in Slovakia will wear black tape on their jerseys in remembrance, and a shrine has popped up in one of his hometown rinks.

Even his post-NHL career was marred. It was he and (I think) former Avs d-man Martin Skoula who were involved in that ridiculous out-of-control KHL brawl that I'm pretty sure injured some players.


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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 3:00 pm 
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http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/05/ma ... -overdose/

No surprises really, the coroner's report says he had traces of painkillers and an anti-anxiety drug in his system at the time of his death. Also, Svatos had apparently picked up a nasty heroin addiction at some point. :cry:


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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
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I wonder if they'll test his brain for CTE.

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 Post subject: Re: Marek Svatos RIP
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E.L. wrote:
I wonder if they'll test his brain for CTE.


I don't recall him suffering many concussions, it was the rest of his body that seemingly fell apart, which I assume led to his subsequent addiction to painkillers.

Is the opioid epidemic worse in Russia and Europe than it is here?


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