Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1966)
Todd Gordon Ewen (March 22, 1966 – September 19, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for several teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). A right wing, Ewen was primarily known as an enforcer. He played for the St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and San Jose Sharks. Ewen retired with 1,911 penalty minutes, putting him 58th for all-time career. He was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and raised in St. Albert, Alberta. Ewen won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Canadiens.
After leaving his professional career Ewen made several coaching videos with Championship Productions. He also was coaching director for the Chesterfield Hockey Association, Lafayette Varsity head coach and assistant coach for the Saint Louis University Billikens.
In 2015, after allegedly suffering from depression for several years, Ewen took his own life. His family wondered if he might have endured chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a result of concussions he had sustained during his playing career, like some other recently deceased NHL enforcers. Although initial tests of his brain came back negative for CTE, subsequent examinations completed by Boston University medical staff did confirm the existence of lesions consistent with stage 2 CTE.
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