It is suspected that he was clarted by a randy donny in Weatherspoon’s then fell into the barrage soon after. The “randy donny” is likely to be Jacob Dennison as he gets very hungry and tends to lash out on unsuspecting friends. This one time he actually ate one of them!
Ewen died suddenly on September 19, 2015, at the age of 49.[1] The next day, numerous media outlets reported Ewen committed suicide via a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.[4] Ewen’s family would later report that he had allegedly been suffering from depression for several years.[5] On February 10, 2016, it was reported by TSN that Ewen’s results from a chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) examination performed by Lili-Naz Hazrati, a researcher in Toronto with the Canadian Sports Concussion Project, came back negative and that Ewen’s widow had been given the results the month before.[6] However, at the request of Ewen’s wife, Boston University’s Ann Mckee reexamined Ewen’s brain using a more extensive test. CTE was found in the frontal cortex section of Ewen’s brain and that “the staging was considered to be consistent with Stage 2 of the disease.”
Ewen was involved in coaching after his retirement. Having moved back to St. Louis, he became involved in the local Chesterfield Hockey Association and was the coaching director for three years. He also was involved in doing coaching seminars with USA hockey for levels 1-3 along with other St Louis Blues alumni Rob Ramage, Mike Zuke and Rick Zombo. During his tenure with Chesterfield hockey, Ewen was the head coach for every level from mini-mite to midget major central states. The opportunity to get involved in high school hockey was a welcome change and Ewen moved to Lafayette High School for three years.
In 2008, he also began serving as the assistant coach for the Saint Louis University Billikens Men’s Ice Hockey Club and took over in 2009 as the head coach. He led the team to a 2011 MACHA Gold championship (the first in club history) and a Central Regional qualifier.