It began with a cough, nothing unusual for a man who spends a lot of time in hockey rinks and cold climates. And when he felt soreness in his right shoulder, Ottawa Senators General Manager Bryan Murray found a logical explanation for that too.
"I used to be a baseball pitcher way back and I said, 'That's an old injury that's come back to haunt me,'" he said. "They went in and found it."
What doctors found was Stage 4 cancer that had originated in his colon and spread to his liver and lung.