The most unstable athletes of all time

either it hasn't been mentioned yet or I'm just too drunk and lazy to see it, but Donnie Moore
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-07-19/sports/sp-3894_1_donnie-moore

 

And, by coincidence, that story was written in part by Mike Penner, who had his own demons, and they got him in the end.

 

Terry Sawchuk
Derek Sanderson
Ryan Leaf
Carlos Zambrano
Josh Hamilton
Someone else mentioned Theo Fleury early, in the same breath Sheldon Kennedy should be mentioned as well, both having their issues stem from the same predator.

 

What was Sawchuk's issue or issues, Beef03?
Just tightly wound.
Guess the only off-ice stuff I've heard about him relates to his death from some barbeque rasslin' or something.

 

He was quite unstable off the ice. A lot of domestic shit, he was by many accounts a bit of a loner and standoffish. Would get pissed off at teammates when they would take anything harder than a light snap shot at him in practice or warp ups. Arguably the greatest of all-time, but not the most stable human off the ice. A lot of history going back to taking up the position after his older brother, his hero, died, to actually being reportedly fairly up beat in his first few years until Jack Adams beat him down over weight issues and the style he played, dispite putting up the best numbers in the game, and his personality apparently became much darker. This helped pave the way for his trade to Boston, which he always hated, to make way for Glenn Hall -- a hall of famer in his own right. He played with a lot of paranoia about being replaced, including playing with a fucked up arm suffered in an offseason baseball injury that left him with one arm that was shorter than the other after it healed wrong. He was very unstable, very star crossed. His death -- a drunken fight with his roommate after the hockey season over a phone bill and landing on a barbecue pit -- just underlines it.