“People wonder why hockey players, professional athletes, are not talking, why we’re not showing any sort of emotions, why mental health in men and in women are a stigma,” Ullmark said. “It took (people online) less than 24 hours from my absence of leave to try to find reasons to why I’m gone, saying that I’m a homewrecker, a person that no one likes on the team. And I can’t defend myself.”
