Apr. 6—GRAND FORKS — Al Pearson, who organized road trips for UND hockey fans for 50 years, died this week in Grand Forks. He was 85. Pearson had battled Parkinson's Disease for 17 years.

Chris Simon, who has died aged 52, was one of ice hockey’s toughest “enforcers”; he overcame teenage alcohol addiction to become the fearsome linchpin of a string of teams in the National ...

Simon's death emphasizes the risk of brain injuries in hockey. “Looking back, we now realize that Chris likely started suffering from CTE in his late 20s to early 30s.

Simon played 857 regular-season and playoff games over 15 NHL seasons from 1993-2008. Over his career, he fought more than 100 times and racked up 1,824 penalty minutes to rank 67th in league history.

DENVER (KDVR) — A newly released analysis found that Chris Simon, a former NHL hockey player, had stage three chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, when he died in 2024. Simon was a well-known ...