Corey Hirsch, then a Rangers backup and a former Canadian national team goalie, was living a hockey player’s dream in May 1994: an Olympic silver medalist and about to be a Stanley Cup champion, and he was only 22.
Yet, none of those trophies mattered the day he got in his car, drove to a cliff near his home in British Columbia and came so close to flying right off it at 140 mph, as Hirsch poignantly recalled in a Players’ Tribune piece published Wednesday, detailing his battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“I’m coming up to the edge of the cliff.