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Former Stanley Cup Champion accuses two NHL teams of concealing his medical records.
 

Former Stanley Cup Champion accuses two NHL teams of concealing his medical records.

Stunning accusations made against two NHL teams.

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A former Stanley Cup Champion has made shocking accusations against two National Hockey League franchises.

Mike Peluso, a veteran of 458 NHL games, is claiming that two of his former teams "intentionally concealed"  important medical records that could have warned him of the risks he was taking with his brain.

"I shouldn't have ever touched the ice again after that medical report,” Peluso said in a recent interview with 5 Eyewitness News. “I just can't believe they wouldn't share that document with me. ... It could have saved me a lifetime of grand mal seizures."

Peluso now says he suffers from seizures as well as dementia and depression as a result of those head injures, and it sounds like his story has some evidence to support it. A 1994 medical report that could have heavily influenced Peluso moving forward somehow never got to him.

From 5 Eyewitness News:

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The medical report was addressed to Lamoriello and two team doctors but not Peluso.

“It’s pretty (expletive) that you withhold medical records,” Peluso said, adding he does not remember even seeing the neurologist and was never told about the risk assessment detailed in the medical records"

Unsurprisingly both teams declined to comment with legal proceedings ongoing.

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