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Quick Strikes: Daniel Walcott and the human element of hockey

Sometimes it can be easy to forget the human element of the sport we follow, but events like Hockey Fights Cancer month can bring it back into focus. Tampa Bay Lightning organizational forward Daniel Walcott recently showed why this is so important during a game with the Syracuse Crunch.

This past Saturday, the Crunch had their Hockey Fights Cancer game. The players wore lavender jerseys and had their dashboards displaying names of those affected by cancer.

The jerseys featured special “I fight for” patches sewed right in, something different from what the team did last season.