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Hockey Fights Cancer

Lightning Stock Up, Stock Down: Stamkos, Sergachev & More

Jim Bay | November 21, 2022

Welcome to this edition of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stock Up and Stock Down, a weekly column detailing the highs and lows of the team’s performance. The Tampa Bay Lightning…

Flyers Honor Oskar Lindblom as They Host Hockey Fights Cancer Night

Bobby Bader | April 21, 2021

Last season, the hockey world was rocked with the news of Oskar Lindblom’s diagnosis with an ultra-rare cancer known as Ewing’s Sarcoma, a cancerous tumor that grows in the bones…

Rangers News & Rumors: Zibanejad, Johnson, Hockey Fights Cancer & More

Scott Blair | March 22, 2021

The New York Rangers continued their up and down season with a win against the Washington Capitals Saturday 3-1 and Mika Zibanejad scored the game-winner in game number 30 of…

Rangers News & Rumors: Strome, Lemieux, Hockey Fights Cancer & More

Scott Blair | November 12, 2020

The New York Rangers agreed to terms with restricted free agent (RFA), Ryan Strome at the final hour on Friday before heading to arbitration. The 6-foot-1, 193-pound center from Mississauga,…

The 11 Day Power Play: Cancer Doesn’t Stop During a Quarantine, Neither Will We

Jeff Seide | May 11, 2020

While the world has stopped, schools have closed their doors for the rest of the year and all but essential businesses have shut down, cancer doesn’t care. Cancer doesn’t care…

Why Blues’ Jaden Schwartz Wears #17

Stephen Ground | July 17, 2019

With the news that William Nylander would be switching his jersey number to 88 in the upcoming season, a number of our staff writers have decided to take a look…

Griffins Join the Hockey Fights Cancer Initiative

Rachel Anderson | November 15, 2018

Cancer’s far-reaching hand can be seen and felt by just about everyone. It doesn’t discriminate or choose its victims based on social status. With the rapid rate at which cancer is…

Pink Rink & Record Book: Windsor Spitfires’ Busy Weekend

Dave Jewell | October 30, 2018

Weekends have been a battle to find consistency for the Windsor Spitfires, but a special occasion and the breaking of a record at least made it a unique four days.…

Hockey is Great Medicine

Jeff Seide | July 13, 2018

On the main rink inside of HarborCenter behind one of the goals there’s a wall measuring a little over 41 feet wide by 8 feet high. It has painted white…

A Four-Hour Shift That Lasts Forever

Jeff Seide | July 11, 2018

This is the second installment covering Buffalo’s 11-Day Power Play Community Shift: Fighting cancer with hockey. To read the first, click here.  No matter the age, 11 years old or…

Hockey: How Buffalo Fights Cancer

Jeff Seide | June 14, 2018

The 11 Day Power Play, the world’s longest hockey game whose purpose is to help fight cancer, is back in Buffalo, with a twist. Instead of 40 players living, breathing,…

Brian Boyle’s Emotional Rollercoaster

Dan Rice | November 11, 2017

Everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer, some of us closer to the heart than others. Just hearing the C-word can give us all flashbacks, bring back memories,…

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