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Dan Carcillo's plea: Give NHL players better post-career support, or we'll lose more Steve Montadors

See a different side of Dan Carcillo as he steps in front of the camera to remember his friend, Steve Montador.

We still don't officially know why or how former NHLer Steve Montador died back in February, but this video from former Flyer Dan Carcillo, via the Players' Tribune, gives some insight from a close friend into who Montador was as a person and into problems that plagued him late in life.

"Monty went through some really trying times, and I got to see it first-hand. That lockout year he had suffered a concussion and then the team had put him on waivers, and he didn't take it very well.