How Robin Lehner Exorcised His Demons
The Lead
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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Las Vegas Golden Knights have been cruising through the playoffs with a somewhat unexpected goaltender: Robin Lehner, who has taken over for franchise netminder Marc-Andre Fleury. Lehner's current playoff tear is the latest in a remarkable journey for the talented Swede, who opened up about his struggles with addiction and mental health issues in an article on The Athletic two years ago. Katie Strang, who interviewed Lehner for a video documentary on The Athletic, joins us to discuss how the netminder overcame what he calls the demons in his mind, and what his success means for other athletes with mental illness.
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| 0:31.0 | The Las Vegas Golden Knights have been cruising through the playoffs with a |
| 0:36.0 | somewhat unexpected net minor. |
| 0:48.0 | It's the latest in a remarkable journey for Robin Lennor who opened up |
| 0:52.5 | about his struggles with addiction and mental health issues in the athletic two |
| 0:56.5 | years ago. |
| 0:57.5 | I want to hit kind of rock bottom where I just didn't care about how my career was going to go. |
| 1:02.5 | Today the athletics Katie Strang on how Lennor overcame what he called the demons in his mind |
| 1:09.2 | and what his success means for other athletes with mental illness. |
| 1:13.5 | You know, if he does get a long term deal in Vegas then there will be that sort of realization |
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