“It’s everything you dreamed of as a child. Living the high life, you know, staying in five-star hotels everywhere. Traveling on a private chartered plane, the best food you can eat. The NHL is everything you’d image it to be.
I had this hole inside of me that I thought would be fill with…Once I got there I’d be happy, you know? This thing that I thought I was missing, that It would go away. And it didn’t and that’s, you know, that scared me. I’ll be honest with you, I struggle with self-esteem, self-doubt and a bit of depression from a young age. Everything around me, I blamed for my problems. And I thought: ‘maybe if I’m here, if I’m there, everything would go away.’ But there’s one common denominator: is that I was everywhere.
I was chasing this dream thinking once I got it everything would be okay, -the things that were going on in my head and inside of me-,and they weren’t. It’s the best life you could possibly imagine, -being in the NHL-it doesn’t fill that sort of void inside of you.
You know the disease with addiction and alcoholism, whatever you want to call it. You really need to be ready to be help. Its very tough to help somebody who’s not ready.
I have my bad days, but my bad today’s nothing. It’s a joke. It’s a walk on the park”
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