Death
On August 14, 1996, Mees, who did not know how to swim, drowned in a neighbor's swimming pool. At first, police said Mees jumped into the pool to save his daughter, Gabrielle, but later said that account could not be confirmed. He left behind Michele, his wife of almost ten years, and two daughters: Lauren, who was eight years old, and Gabrielle, who was four.
Following Mees' untimely death, ESPN hired Dave Strader to take the vacant play-by-play spot on the National Hockey Night broadcasts.
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“We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face—so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
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I’m tired of faces that I don’t know
and now I think that death is starting.”
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