Boogaard died on May 13, 2011, at the age of 28 from what doctors later determined to be an accidental combination of alcohol and oxycodone toxicity. His parents documented Boogaard’s addiction to painkillers and sleeping pills and compiled records of team doctors for the Minnesota Wild and Rangers prescribing thousands of pills to their son.
Believing these NHL teams were partly responsible for Boogaard’s death, his parents say that they approached the NHLPA and that the union promised to help them file a grievance to get the Rangers to pay out the remaining $4.875 million on their son’s salary.
But the lawsuit alleges the union failed to file the grievance by the required deadline, and now Boogaard’s parents are suing the NHLPA for the remaining $4.875 million on his contract, plus $5 million in punitive damages.
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