If you look at just his whole school thing, he had to quit school because they didn't even check in with the teachers. Thomas here had his injury. With a third party, he could have said, “Hey, what's going on?” He could have given them a call and said, “Can you make sure my school is covered and everything?” Obviously the team didn't do it for him, so there's one example right there.
There are other examples in terms of things like mental health issues. That's a horrible one. You would hate to see more players end up in bad situations—like while they're playing hockey and they get cut. There's been a bad example of that before. You know, a player gets cut and “screamed out” and then they have mental health issues and bad things happen. They do need a third party, even if it's ex-players, to talk to about situations and to get things done so that we don't lose people to mental health issues and substance abuse and all sorts of things. The list goes on and on.
Also, I'd like to say something to athletes about life after hockey. If I could say something to future athletes, it would be that at the end of the day, it's a game that we love to play. Throughout all of this, I haven't stepped foot on the ice since I've been done hockey and all that. It's become too much. People take it way off, and too many of these foul things happen, so that needs to just stop.