Since 1998, the NHL has been battling for a greater prize than the Stanley Cup: a cure.
When he was 14 years old, Brian Boyle’s father, Arthur, was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a kidney cancer. Although a successful surgery caused the cancer to diminish, it returned eight months later, bigger than before, in Arthur’s lung. Believing he had only a few months to live, Arthur’s brother and a family friend took him to a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina called Medjugorje, which is often thought of as a spiritual site.
The journey must have helped him somehow, because when he returned to the United States, his cancer had completely disappeared.