Deaths
- January 3 - Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.
- April 11 - Warren Strelow, 73, American goaltending coach for the US 1980 Winter Olympics gold medal team (Miracle on Ice). .
- May 29 - Dave Balon, 68, Canadian player; multiple sclerosis.
- June 9 - Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian player for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
- June 11 - Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian player, professional boxer and boxing referee.
- July 11 - Jimmy Skinner, 90, Canadian coach (Detroit Red Wings).
- July 14 - John Ferguson, Sr., 68, Canadian player, general manager, coach, and scout; prostate cancer.
- July 18 - Gary Lupul, 48, Canadian player.
- August 15 - Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian general manager of Montreal Canadiens, hall-of-famer.
- September 2 - Max McNab, 83, Canadian player, coach, and NHL general manager.
- September 6 - Martin Čech, 31, Czech international player; car accident. (Czech) (Russian)
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)