Phil Bourque was willing to do whatever it took to succeed in his NHL career.
What he didn’t realize at the time was that, more than 15 years after retiring, he’d be paying a different price. One for having multiple concussions as a player.
At 53, Bourque, the Penguins’ radio analyst who was a member of their Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1991 and 1992, is beginning to experience memory lapses that he can’t shrug off as simply a byproduct of advancing age.
“There have been big gaps the last six or eight months,” he said. “Sometimes you think, ‘Well, geez, am I just tired, or have I been pushing myself too hard?