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MINNEAPOLIS – A scrutiny enquirer in Minnesota ruled the modification of Rangers help Derek Boogaard was an accident, cod to mixing alcohol and oxycodone.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner free Boogaard's cause of modification on Friday. The scrutiny enquirer said no another accumulation module be released.

The 28-year-old Boogaard was found departed in his Minneapolis apartment terminal Friday, five months after he uninterrupted a season-ending concussion with the New royalty Rangers.

The 6-foot-7, 265-pound help became a follower selection in his eld with the Minnesota Wild. He played in 255 games with the Wild from 2005-10.

Oxycodone is a powerful painkiller that crapper be addictive and has been blamed in some dose deaths.

Boogaard's businessperson and a spokeswoman for the Beantown University School of Medicine said earlier this hebdomad that Boogaard's mentality module be examined for signs of a degenerative disease ofttimes found in athletes who uphold repeated hits to the head.

Boogaard was known as "The Boogeyman" — one of the league's most feared fighters. He agreed to a $6.5 million, four-year care with the Rangers in July and appeared in 22 games terminal season, closing with a goal, an support and 45 penalisation minutes.

His final mettlesome was Dec. 9 at Algonquin when he fought Matt Carkner and uninterrupted a concussion and margin injury. That was the 70th fight of his NHL career.

He was out for the terminal 52 games of the regular flavour because of his injuries and did not endeavor in the playoffs. He didn't skate again until most threesome months after the concussion. He was dispatched home to Minnesota New in the flavour to work on conditioning.

Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Boogaard was drafted by Minnesota in 2001 in the ordinal round, the 202nd choice. He drew attending in 2007 when he and brother Aaron ran a hockey-fighting collection in Saskatchewan. Some vocal anxiety most much a camp. Boogaard insisted he wasn't teaching kids how to perceive apiece other, but kinda how to protect themselves so they don't intend perceive on the ice.

This is the ordinal modification of a player in the Rangers methodicalness in the time threesome years. Alexei Cherepanov, drafted in 2007 but never subscribed by New York, died at 19 in Chekhov, Russia, in 2008, after collapsing on the governance during a game.

Roman Lyashenko, who shortly played with the Rangers several eld ago, was found departed in a hotel in Turkey in 2003. His modification was believed to be a suicide.

Earlier this year, Beantown University revealed that past help Bob Probert suffered from the degenerative mentality disease habitual traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Probert died of a hunch attack terminal July at geezerhood 45. Reggie Fleming, a 1960s help who played before helmets became mandatory, also had CTE.

Wild fans held a memorial assist for Boogaard terminal Sun at the Xcel Energy Center. Family, friends and past teammates turned out, and remembered Boogaard as a rough-and-tumble man on the rink, but a upgrade colossus when he wasn't on the ice.

"He exuded this quality most him that made grouping poverty to be around him," Wild general manager Chuck playwright said Sunday. "He meet brought smiles to everyone's faces every the time."

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