{"id":933113,"date":"2026-10-18T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933113\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:30:12","slug":"jason-myrtetus-in-a-battle-for-his-life-provides-flyers-winning-perspective-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933113\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Myrtetus, \u2018in a battle for his life,\u2019 provides Flyers winning \u2018perspective\u2019 \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

VOORHEES, N.J. \u2014 Life in the NHL consists of constant pressure.<\/p>\n

But life with cancer consists of something much more real, much more powerful.<\/p>\n

It provides perspective. Much-needed perspective.<\/p>\n

Just ask Flyers Broadcast Network host Jason Myrtetus, who is undergoing stage 4 colorectal cancer treatments. With the Flyers stuck in a nine-game losing streak to open the season, Myrtetus spoke to the team Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

You can bet his message resonated. The Flyers went on to play their best game of the season that night, picking up win No. 1 with a 3-1 decision over the Senators<\/a> at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

“Jason’s an incredible person,” Nick Seeler said Sunday after practice. “For him to have the courage to come into our room and share his story, it was an incredible story. He’s in a battle for his life and it put things certainly into perspective. We’re playing a hockey game and he’s battling cancer. For him to do that, it meant the world to our group. We think the world of Jason, he’s an amazing human being.”<\/p>\n

Myrtetus is still working. He worked Saturday night like he always does. Kevin Kurz of The Athletic wrote an outstanding piece on Myrtetus’ fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before Rick Tocchet started his postgame press conference, the head coach tossed a game puck to Myrtetus, thanking him for his message. Tocchet loved what it did for his players.<\/p>\n

“I just felt after he left, there was a little bit of a pause or silence,” Tocchet said. … “It was moving. It was a message to the guys, like, hey, you should be happy. We’re in the NHL, we’re playing a game. We’re asking for effort. This guy’s going through stuff that you can’t imagine going through.”<\/p>\n

After the win, the Flyers’ locker room recognized Myrtetus as the player of the game<\/a>. This season, the team-picked honoree for each win will be given Rocky Balboa replica boxing gloves.<\/p>\n

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“He was excited,” Seeler said. “You can tell it meant a lot. But it meant a lot to our group, too, to have him there and be there for us.”<\/p>\n

Myrtetus gave the Flyers what they needed.<\/p>\n

“It was really cool to hear his story and how much of a warrior and a fighter he is,” Denver Barkey said. “It put things into perspective for us, that we can go out there. There are a lot worse things that are going on with people’s lives. He’s a fighter and I think he really motivated us.<\/p>\n

“It just gave us a different perspective toward things. It gave us that motivation, but also that extra push to sacrifice for one another. We’ve always talked about coming in a pack. It was really cool to hear from him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOORHEES, N.J. \u2014 Life in the NHL consists of constant pressure. But life with cancer consists of something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,499873,575,85],"class_list":["post-933113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flyers-feature","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}