Hockey Fights Cancer and Stick it to Cancer charities always feature prominently around the start of the season, but for the Stockton Heat and Adam Ollas-Mattsson in particular, it took on a whole other meaning.
When the Flames drafted Ollas-Mattsson back in 2014, we soon learned that cancer had affected his life in a big way: his mom had battled breast cancer twice in her life, eventually succumbing to the disease when he was a teenager.
On Saturday, the Heat had their Stick it to Cancer night, raising money for the St. Joseph’s Foundation by auctioning off their jerseys.