Jordan Sigalet’s NHL career consisted of 43 seconds of mop-up duty in a January 2006 Boston Bruins win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Most of his pro hockey career was spent in the American Hockey League, with a cup of coffee overseas before his retirement in 2009.
His career couldn’t be any different from that of Carolina Hurricanes forward Bryan Bickell, he of three Stanley Cups and almost 400 NHL games, except for one thing: both men were active hockey players when they were diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
It was 2003 and Sigalet was in his junior year at Bowling Green, two years after being selected by the Bruins in the 7th round of the 2001 NHL Draft, when he was diagnosed.