Photo Via McGinn Brothers Big Game Facebook Page: Allan Boynton and Jamie McGinn
FERGUS – The McGinn Brothers Big Game has donated 12 cases of hand sanitizer to the frontline workers at Sunny Brook Hospital in Toronto in memory of Colby Cave, a forward with the Edmonton Oilers who died Saturday, April 11th, four days after he had surgery to remove a colloid cyst that was causing pressure on his brain. He was 25.
Cave was hospitalized after sustaining a brain bleed and had been in a medically induced coma.
“From North Battleford, SK to Fergus, ON, we love our hockey heroes” The McGinn Brothers Big Game said in a post on their Facebook page. “Hockey is family”.
Colby Caves family released the following statement last Thursday, thanking friends, family and the hockey community for their support.
” There are no words to comfort a grieving family with a loss such as this. Yet, our community, our friends, and our family, found a way to wrap themselves around us, without saying a word.
People that impacted Colb’s life seemed to stand out like beacons… teachers, hockey coaches, babysitters, buddies, and his family. We are so sad, and so broken for all of you too.
Colb’s competitive nature always fuelled a drive to want to be better, and do better, in every aspect of his life; certainly what we are most proud of. To know that others recognized and admired those same qualities in Colby, makes us even more proud.”
Earlier this week the Cave family and the Oilers announced the creation of the Colby Cave Memorial Fund to help carry on Colby’s memory and legacy.
Proceeds from the fund will go toward community programs with an emphasis on mental health initiatives and providing access to sports for underprivileged children.
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