SUNRISE, FLA. - Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson has gained a fresh outlook on life — and hockey — while being by the side of his wife Nicholle.
“It makes you realize how lucky and fortunate we are to play a game we love,” said Anderson, who has been away from the team for the past eight weeks, watching his wife go through extended radiation and chemotherapy treatments for a rare throat cancer.
“Win or lose, it’s a hockey game, there’s more to life. You learn that when you have kids, but when you go through something this traumatic and difficult, hockey is a job.