Hockey was extremely important to me. I played that sport for eight years, and to have it taken away from me in an instant, as you said, was super hard. After the concussion when I went back to school I was still hanging out with my friends and they were all still playing hockey, most of them on the same team, and they were talking about what happened in last night's game, in the weekend tournament, and I couldn't feel part of that conversation anymore. It really was hard. It made me feel like I had to isolate myself from talking to people because I couldn't fit in anymore. I was “the concussion guy”, in a way.
On November 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.