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‘Miracle’ hockey star Mark Pavelich found dead in treatment facility – Minneapolis Star Tribune
The pride of the Iron Range was found mentally ill by a court after he was charged with beating a neighbor.
Olympic “Miracle” hockey star and Iron Range sports legend Mark Pavelich was found dead Thursday in a central Minnesota residential treatment center, bringing to an end a life of a man who reached the pinnacle of international sport and hit the depths of legal and psychological distress.
Pavelich, who turned 63 a week ago, died at Eagle’s Healing Nest, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office. He had received mental health treatment there for the past several months. At the time of his…
