Official Site of the Maple Leafs · Jul 6, 2015
The next chapter in Clune's hockey career
It took a lot of courage for Rich Clune to write an op-ed piece in The Players Tribune about his battle with addiction. While that article was published five days ago, Clune first went public with it in early 2013, when he joined the Nashville Predators.“The public relations department came to me and said ‘hey, you know people are digging around,’” Clune said on Sunday. “I think people were wondering why I disappeared off the radar in L.A. and there were rumours flying around. So they just said that Scott Burnside at ESPN wants to see if you would talk about some of the stuff in your personal life and shed some light on your situation.”