Roughly one year ago, a day or two after finishing his first preseason game with the St. Louis Blues, Zach Sanford received a call from his sister informing him that his father had suffered a heart attack.
He was hospitalized, and the doctors were going to try therapeutic hypothermia, the lowering of one’s body temperature between 89-93 degrees to promote blood flow to the brain and vital organs, to help his recovery. The procedure has had some significant success, so the family was hopeful.
Faced with an impossible decision, rush home to be with dad and family or stay at camp and try to make the team, Zach Sanford did what he knew his father would’ve wanted.