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Hockey Fights Cancer

Category: Sports & Medicine
Posted on: January 28, 2008 10:25 PM, by Karen Ventii

This weekend I attended the NHL All-Star game in Atlanta and was impressed to learn about the Hockey Fights Cancer program.

Hockey Fights Cancer is a joint initiative founded in
December 1998 by the National Hockey League and the
National Hockey League Players' Association to raise
money and awareness for hockey's most important fight.

According to the Hockey Fights Cancer website, the organization has raised over $6 million to support cancer research through fund-raising initiatives such as the annual Hockey Fights Cancer On-Line Charity Auction.

If you want to help in the fight against cancer and score some cool hockey merchandise at the same time, this is a great way to go. More info here.

Comments

Yay for you! Was it your first hockey game?
Sadly, cancer and hockey have some pretty close ties- probably no more than the regular population but some major hockey starts have had cancer- notably Mario Lemieux with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and now Saku Koivu with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphona. And others as well. The good thing that comes out of it is the raised aawreness and the research dollars generated.

Posted by: Homie Bear | January 28, 2008 11:00 PM

Hi Homie Bear,
Yes indeed it was and I had a blast. I wasn't aware of the sad history of this disease in hockey. Thanks for the information.

Posted by: Karen Ventii | January 29, 2008 9:59 PM

I think your blog is great and there is way too little blogging about science in the black blog-o-sphere (Afrospear). I've tried several times to get some of the popular black blog directories to include more black science blogger like you. https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6152307338772205194&postID=5199422679225755682

Maybe you should drop them a line or two, too.

Posted by: DNLee | January 30, 2008 10:44 PM

Dear DNLee,
Thank you for encouraging the inclusion of more science blogs in the black blog directories and for highlighting my blog.
You also have quite a nice science blog :)
Take care.
Karen

Posted by: Karen Ventii | January 31, 2008 12:14 AM

Thanks for all.The good thing that comes out of it is the raised awreness and the research dollars generated.

Posted by: Cancer | March 8, 2008 7:43 PM