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OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:30 pm
by theonlyeastcoastrapsfan
@simmonssteve steve simmons

The Toronto Sun is reporting Wade Belak's death as a suicide. According to our news department, he hung himself.



I think this is what the other thread was about.

RIP to a former leaf

Retired National Hockey League player Wade Belak was found dead in a downtown Toronto hotel and condominium complex on Wednesday. A source with the Nashville Predators, Belak’s last NHL team, confirmed the news late Wednesday afternoon.

Belak was 35.

The cause of death was not immediately known.

Officers from 52 Division responded to a call around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon and found a man dead on the scene. That man was identified as Belak. A police forensics unit was still on the scene late Wednesday afternoon, but foul play was not suspected.

Belak retired after 15 seasons spent as an enforcer, a career that involved stops with the Colorado Avalanche, the Calgary Flames, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Florida Panthers and the Nashville Predators. He had recently been named as a cast member for the third season of the CBC’s “Battle of the Blades,” and was preparing for a new job as a television analyst with the Predators.


http://sports.nationalpost.com/2011/08/31/former-maple-leafs-enforcer-wade-belak-found-dead/

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:34 pm
by Prestige
Is it just me or are a lot of former hockey players dying/killing themselves recently??

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:40 pm
by theonlyeastcoastrapsfan
It sure seems that way.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 12:13 am
by PerfectJab
What terrible news. To have such a gift and have it ended this way makes you think about how fragile life is. My condolences to his family.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 12:50 am
by whysoserious
Very sad to hear this news today. Belak always had a smile on his face and was a joker with the media, he must have had some deep issues underlying which caused him to take his own life.

Thoughts and prayers to his family. He may not have been the best player on the team, but he was always fun and filled his role.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 12:52 am
by fredericklove
whoa......where did that come from......? He was always an enforcer for our team, sad to see him gone. RIP.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:00 am
by J Dilla
Sad to see him go. Grew up watching the Leafs with him on the team. I was shocked because he came across as a really happy person.

What's up with all these enforcers killing themselves?

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:17 am
by Weems
Man. All of these deaths are sad as ****, and scary as ****. :(

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:19 am
by Tenacious_C

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:30 am
by hsb
RIP. Wasn't expecting to read this, condolences to his family.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:30 am
by JamesNaismith
Hmmmm I feel bad for his family.


RIP but suicide....not cool!

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 2:24 am
by TheRealistGM
Im absolutely shocked. His death was one form of shock but it being a suicide is just that much more. Considering how he always was in the media (laughing and joking). Guess it just goes to show you never really know whats going on inside.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 3:17 am
by pape-a-bonner
Blue Jays - Mike Flanagan
Leafs - Wade Belak
Raptors - ?

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 3:31 am
by OvertimeNO
RIP. Never met him, but he and Tucker spent a few minutes chilling with my disabled brother who was working at McDonald's at the time. Guy could've just grabbed his burger and left but instead made my brother's year. Class act.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 11:57 am
by theSkinny
[quote="pape-a-bonner"]Blue Jays - Mike Flanagan
Leafs - Wade Belak
Raptors - Oliver Miller

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2011 4:43 pm
by racingdynamics
Man oh man, I walked by Belak at the ACC like two days ago.....he had his typical ear to ear smile. Did not expect this at all...

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:14 am
by Homer Jay
His family just confirmed it was Auto erotic Asphyxiation and not suicide. This was rumored a couple of days after the incident, but a lot of the media kept hitting the suicide angle. I don't know why as a society we have to be so repressed about sexuality sometimes.

Re: OT: Wade Belak found dead

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:05 pm
by Ramako
Homer Jay wrote:His family just confirmed it was Auto erotic Asphyxiation and not suicide. This was rumored a couple of days after the incident, but a lot of the media kept hitting the suicide angle.


I've heard this rumour as well.