From one day to the next was quiet.
Tim Thomas had dominated the large and been among the main reasons the Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup triumph in 2011.
But suddenly he was gone.
The 40-year-old star would not more. He could manage it. So he made a decision. Life as a professional ishockeystjerne was scrapped so he could focus on other values in his life. The family, the peace and his own head.
it was completely basic head, it was mad with.
An unfortunate tackle in the last season gave him a concussion. It resulted in a permanent brain injury, which with one changed Tim Thomas’ life.
Everything was suddenly harder for him.
– It changed my life. I woke up the next morning, and I could not decide what I should eat, and where I should go. I couldn’t plan anything. I survived through the team’s schedule the rest of the season, he told the press, as he on Thursday stood up for the first time in five years.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman awards the Tim Thomas Conn Smythe trophy as the signs that goalien was NHL-finalernes best player. Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
– On the ice I was able to achieve 97 percent maybe. Outside the ice, I could not make a decision. I have it so much better now, but I must begin each day with clearing up in my head the first couple of hours. So, I make a list and try to make some choices, he said.
That it should be now, to do with the fact that the NHL has chosen to include him in the Hall of Fame. And it could get him out of the bush. Even though Tim Thomas is now really the any was free.
– I would not say anything. I did not want to tell the world about it. Not before I felt ready. And I still do not. But now I’m here anyway, he said, according to as well as all of the american media, dealing with ice hockey.
Tim Thomas took first in a late age, fat on the life and career of the world’s best however after a number of years in european ice hockey. But when he first was inside in the heat in 2005, if one can use that term in the sport, so he bit stuck.
He played a season after the triumph in 2011, but he then had to have a break – and left the Bruins. A year after he turned his back and performed a halvsæson for first Florida Panthers and since the Dallas Stars, But in 2014, it was over.
Five years later, he stood before the press and gave an in-depth explanation of his long absence from the sport and the attention, which otherwise stuck to him for years.
Rejected Barack Obama
After the Stanley Cup win in ’11, he declined to join in the traditional visit to The White House – and thus to meet then president Barack Obama.
As the only player in the squad, Thomas was away. Instead, he issued a press release, saying:
– I’m of the belief that the federal government has got out of control and threaten the citizens ‘ rights, freedoms and properties.
– This happens on the administrative, legislative, and judicial level. It is in direct conflict with the Constitution and the vision that was once a federal government.
– Because I believe this, was I today my right as a free citizen and visited not The White House. It was not about politics or party, as I am of the belief that both parties are responsible for the situation we find ourselves in as a nation. It was a choice I made as an individual.
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Hjerneskaden was not life threatening, but it blocked his life in a way that made many things messed things up for him. Therefore he chose also to turn away from the sport he has loved all his life.
– It did not make sense for me to follow with more. My brain worked just not well enough to be able to follow. So I sat out in the forests in some years. I am so not hockey. There is not so much tv out there, it came surprisingly from the man who so chose to tear his life up by the roots and move himself and his family out to Idaho in the middle of nowhere for peace of.
Out there in the northern part of Idaho right up on the border to Canada was completely quiet.
– I could not communicate with anyone anywhere in several years. I didn’t call to my father. There was a period where I hated the game. Literally. I was not and said it directly, but my reaction pattern was..that it was not worth it, he said.
He is better today, he says. The five years away from the sport, the media and the attention has been beneficial for him.
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