This post needs to be mandatory reading for all NHL fans. I’m serious, read the article, you will be glad you did.

Rec’d.

It’s not often you find a well-written post that is powerful.

This is one of those posts.

I don’t know what to say……I’m in awe.

I read it last night and still am in awe of it.

This isn’t going to show up on some NHL mandated test. People can’t tell those that the care about the most how they feel, and they don’t want to ruin their jobs – they’ll act and answer the way that society expects them to. They’ll continue to be secretly square pegs in round holes, knowing that they don’t fit and that at any minute they’ll pop out for all to see. But they’ll keep their fingers crossed that they can get away with this charade just a little while longer. They’re people like the rest of us.

An anonymous post via Hockey Wilderness

I’m far from a religious person but that doesn’t leave me with a lack of compassion or empathy. This question from Hindu texts could be applied to depression as easily as mortality.

What is the most wondrous thing in the world Yudhisthira? Whatever it is, we rarely think it will happen to us.

I was reading an article on TSN and they had mentioned when he was put on waivers it sorta messed with him. Gotta figure how hard it is to walk away from a sport when you know you have a couple years left in the tank.