CALGARY, Alberta -- Kris Letang could hardly cope in the spring of 2017.
That April, as his teammates were closing in on a second straight Stanley Cup championship, the Penguins' star defenseman underwent a neck surgery to repair a herniated disc that had prematurely ended his season three months earlier. The emotional toll was obvious, but it was compounded by the sheer physical pain of it all. He had been unable to take any pain-killing medications, he says, because his body doesn’t react well to them.
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