Laura Zelenka-Dufresne still has a hard time believing she’ll be going to Thursday night’s Islanders’ game against the Devils, or anywhere else, without her husband, Bob Dufresne, an avid sports fan who passed away at age 55 on Jan. 22 because of COVID-19.
"I think Bob’s story needs to be told because we are a very careful family who are highly cautious," said Zelenka-Dufresne, a registered dietician and health educator at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. "The fact he got this is incredible."
She and their two children, Megan, 18, and Tyler, 15, who live in Levittown, along with her brother, Brian Zelenka of the New York City Fire Department, will be at Nassau Coliseum as fans are allowed in the building for the first time this season.