OT: Sad Story For Hockey Fans

[Enigma869]

And I guess for everyone. I hate reading stories like this! They just never make any sense to me.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3251923


John from Boston

[conversationpc]

Bummer. I just finished watching the movie "Miracle" the other day. These kids bust their asses and play their hearts out.

[scarygirl]

Bummer. I just finished watching the movie "Miracle" the other day. These kids bust their asses and play their hearts out.

Poor kid. He probably had some undiagnosed heart ailment.

[treetopovskaya]

that's what i was thinking as well. really sad.

Bummer. I just finished watching the movie "Miracle" the other day. These kids bust their asses and play their hearts out.

Poor kid. He probably had some undiagnosed heart ailment.

[Michigan Girl]

that's what i was thinking as well. really sad.

Bummer. I just finished watching the movie "Miracle" the other day. These kids bust their asses and play their hearts out.

Poor kid. He probably had some undiagnosed heart ailment.

Seems like we hear more and more of this sort of thing lately....so young, so sad.

[bluejeangirl76]

Bummer. I just finished watching the movie "Miracle" the other day. These kids bust their asses and play their hearts out.

Damn straight they do. And that was a killer movie!

Just the thread title made me not want to click the link, but I read it anyway.
Hockey is the only sport I could ever get really into. I love it. And I hate these kinds of stories.

That poor guy.

[Deb]

Very sad. This write up was in our Calgary Sun this morning. Looks like he came from quite the hockey family.

Flames' draft pick dies at 19
Prospect collapses at Ontario home due to unknown ailment

By CP


WINDSOR, Ont. -- Mickey Renaud was making all the improvements necessary to become an NHL player.

As captain of the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires, his leadership qualities were evident. He had the size, too, to make an impact at the highest level of the sport he loved to play.

Yesterday, at age 19, the Calgary Flames prospect collapsed at his home in nearby Tecumseh and was transported to Windsor Regional Hospital with no vital signs. Resuscitation attempts failed and he was pronounced dead around noon.

"This is the biggest tragedy in Spitfire history," said team vice-president and general manager Warren Rychel. "Words alone cannot describe our pain at this time."

Renaud was to have participated in the team's Family Day skate at Windsor Arena beginning at noon yesterday. His teammates were called off the ice. Tecumseh OPP are investigating the death. An autopsy is scheduled for this morning.

The 6-ft.-3, 220-lb. centre was the fourth pick, 143rd overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 2007 NHL entry draft. He showed solid development last season, when he scored 22 goals and amassed 54 points in 68 OHL games.

He attended camp with the Flames last year and was assigned back to the OHL club. He had progressed steadily after scoring only eight goals in his rookie season in the OHL. Renaud was Windsor's seventh pick, 127th overall, in the 2004 OHL draft.

"It's just so sad when you see something like this happen," Flames pro scout Tom Webster, a former Spitfires coach who was close with Renaud, said.

"You feel so bad for his family and of course for his teammates."

Mark Renaud, his father, played 142 NHL games with the Hartford Whalers and Buffalo Sabres from 1979-84. His uncle, Chris Renaud, spent time in the New York Rangers organization while Webster coached there.

Renaud, who wore No. 18, was in his third season with the Spitfires and had 21 goals and 41 points in 56 games this year.

"He's our leader, he's our biggest healthiest kid. For something like this to suddenly happen, it's truly a tragedy," said Rychel. "He's with his family having breakfast and something suddenly happens, it's shocking.

"It's tough right now, we have a lot of work to do to calm the storm here."

Renaud is survived by parents Mark and Jane and siblings Remy and Penny. Funeral arrangements were pending.