On anniversary of his death, wife of former NHLer Marek Svatos says he had CTE

Marek Svatos, who played parts of eight NHL seasons and skated for Slovakia in the 2006 Olympics in Torino, had the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death in 2016.

Svatos’ wife, Diana, confirmed his posthumous diagnosis in a series of recent interviews with TSN. Diana – who said the date of her husband’s death has been misreported on the Internet – wanted to speak publicly about Svatos’ life and death because she says it was more complicated than media reports have portrayed.

https://www.tsn.ca/on-anniversary-of-his-death-wife-of-former-nhler-marek-svatos-says-he-had-cte-1.1873252