In a gritty and hard-hitting article published in The Athletic, former Buffalo Sabres Robin Lehner has opened up about the mental health issues he’s been facing for years, culminating in a nervous breakdown late last season.
Lehner left Buffalo at the end of last season and signed a one-year deal with the New York Islanders for this upcoming season. He won equal numbers of admirers and naysayers in his three-year tenure with the Sabres, a time marked by volatility as the Swede always appeared to be a powder keg primed to explode at any time, and he did, often.