When an email from OHL media relations director Aaron Bell arrived in my inbox Monday afternoon, only part of the subject line was visible.

Curiously, I tried to make sense of it.

"Windsor Spitfires Regretfully Announce The Passing Of Team Capt..."

Surely, as much as it seemed like common sense at the time, that next word wasn't "Captain", was it? There's just no way.

Sadly, I was wrong. Those were indeed the missing letters.

In a story that transcends anything to do with the game, Windsor Spitfires' captain Mickey Renaud collapsed at his home and died Monday.

At 19 years of age.

For a moment, forget the hockey player, one who seemed destined to eventually make the jump to the Calgary Flames, the team that drafted him last summer.

This tragedy is more than that, hockey be damned.

Any time a kid collapses and drops dead before his 20th birthday, you try to make sense of

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