The New Jersey Devils celebrated Hockey Fights Cancer night on Saturday night against the Philadelphia Flyers. While it was a losing effort, these nights are always special around the league.
These nights took a different turn for the New Jersey Devils when they had Brian Boyle on the roster. In his first season wearing red and black, Boyle was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. This cancer can be aggressive, but because the Devils doctors helped find it very early, Boyle was able to recover without chemotherapy and returned later in the 2017-18 season.
So much went right in that season, but we believe Boyle’s fight was extra motivation.