Miracle star Mark Pavelich died by suicide, medical examiner concludes The hockey legend was found dead in a residential treatment facility last month. April 5, 2021 3:22pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Mark Pavelich, an Olympic hockey legend of Miracle fame, died by suicide last month at age 63, according to details in a new cause-of-death examination provided by the Anoka County medical examiner s office.
Early the morning of March 4, Pavelich died in a residential treatment facility in Sauk Centre, Minn., according to the medical examiner s report.
Pavelich, a native of Minnesota s Iron Range, is known to most for his role in Team USA s Miracle on Ice defeat of the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics before they went on to win gold. Pavelich assisted on Mike Eruzione s goal that won the game. He went on to play for the NHL, where he scored 137 goals and 192 assists throughout his profes
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Olympic Miracle hockey star and Iron Range sports legend Mark Pavelich was found dead Thursday in a central Minnesota residential treatment center, bringing to an end the life of a man who reached the pinnacle of international sport and hit the depths of legal and psychological distress.
Pavelich, who turned 63 a week ago, died at Eagle s Healing Nest, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner s Office. He had received mental health treatment there for the past several months. At the time of his death he was under civil commitment for a violent assault on a North Shore neighbor nearly 1½ years ago,
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