Toronto Maple Leafs Prospect Rodion Amirov Dead at 21 After Brain Tumor Diagnosis – E! Online

The hockey world has a misplaced a rising star.

Toronto Maple Leafs Prospect Rodion Amirov has died lower than two years after he was first identified with a mind tumor. He was 21.

“It’s we nice disappointment that we announce the passing of Rodion Amirov,” his agent Dan Milstein confirmed on Twitter Aug. 14, alongside a black and white photograph of Amirov waving at a crowd. “Two years in the past, Rodion was identified with a mind tumour. From the second he obtained the information, he refused to talk within the adverse, decided to take pleasure in on daily basis, dealing with it with the identical constructive angle he confirmed throughout his hockey profession.”

He added, “We’ll at all times bear in mind his braveness, his need, his will, his smile, all the nice issues about him. We might prefer to thank his medical doctors, who took nice care of him. We might prefer to thank the Toronto Maple Leafs and his KHL—Salavat Yulayev Ufa staff.”