Report: Former U.S. Olympian, Rangers forward found dead in mental treatment center
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 05, 2021
Former U.S. Olympian Mark Pavelich, right, is greeted by former teammate Jack O Callahan during a Miracle on Ice reunion at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2015. (AP/Mike Groll)
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Former U.S. Olympian and ex-New York Ranger Mark Pavelich was found dead Thursday in a Minnesota mental treatment center in Minnesota, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Pavelich, 63, not only starred on the ‘Miracle on Ice’ team that won Olympic Gold at Lake Placid in 1980, but was also a star center on the ‘Smurf’ Rangers of the early 1980s.