A year and a half after a liver transplant saved his life, Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk says he has never met his donor but thanks God every day “that he came into my life and saved me.”
On the same week that Canadian transplant officials have accepted that public solicitations for organs are both inevitable and often beneficial, Melnyk spoke to the Sun for the first time about the extraordinary public campaign to find a liver donor for him — and some of the criticism around it.
“Yes, my platform to reach an audience is larger than the average person.