At 6, Andrew Shaw received his first stitches — right above his eye after crashing into a table during a wrestling match.
It was the first of countless times he was sewn back together.
The conversation on the way to the hospital went like this on repeat:
"I don't want to go," Andrew said.
"Well, you have to, so we're going," his mother, Darlene Shaw, replied matter of factly.
With three boys born within three years of each other — all of whom played hockey — and a daughter who was a figure skater, the Shaw family was mostly numb to the routine of bumps and bruises and scrapes.