Todd Ewen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Todd Ewen

Canadian ice hockey player

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1966

Place of Birth: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Date of Death: 19-Sep-2015

Profession: ice hockey player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Todd Ewen

  • 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 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 suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a result of concussions he had suffered 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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