wasn't Belak's death treated with the same sensitivity as Rick Rypien's? Was it because Rypien's fight with depression was public knowledge? Was Belak tortured because he was an NHL enforcer? Was he depressed? Did he reach out for help? Did he have a history of concussions? If he was lost, "retired" at 35, knowing only a life in and around hockey, it didn't come across. By all accounts, he was upbeat, content, the same old Wade Belak, and keeping busy. It doesn't make sense. Suicide never does, I guess. But it's impossible not to make the connection, to tie Belak's death to Derek Boogard's, and Rypien's. It's impossible, when three hockey players, all enforcers, all so damn young, are found dead over the summer, to think that fighting still has a place in professional hockey. I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to see it anymore. It isn't worth it. Nobody can tell me that it is. Wade Belak had this self-deprecating way of making himself seem like a regular guy. Like any other guy. He was like me, like you, like all of us, except that he played ice hockey, and fought, for a living. I'll remember Belak as a Toronto Maple Leaf, for his wit, his interviews that were always so refreshing, especially compared to those of his teammates. I'll remember Belak for the way he stood up for his teammates, especially for Tomas Kaberle, and for the goal he scored on December 4, 2007, against Nashville, the