Olczyk, reporting from Ball Arena in Denver, started his segment by reading off the names of 18 of his friends who are currently fighting. He said he didn\u2019t have any Hockey Fights Cancer cards with him, so he wrote down the names on a yellow legal pad instead.<\/p>\n
Fighting back tears, he then shared some personal moments from his own battle.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of my biggest problems is that I didn\u2019t want to let anybody in,\u201d Olczyk said. \u201cI wanted to deal with it by myself. \u2026 The one thing I had to learn and learn the hard way was you need to let the most important people in your life help you. Let them love you. Let them help you get through this difficult challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in the TNT studio, Liam McHugh and the rest of the studio analysts shared their support for Olczyk.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year your message is so strong and amazing,\u201d McHugh said. \u201cThis year is no different. Personally, I love you. I\u2019m so happy you\u2019re here. I\u2019m so happy that you keep raising awareness and delivering this message.”<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI just hope that people know what you said, which is that \u2026 you\u2019re never, ever alone. Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olczyk\u2019s son, Nick, chimed in on social media in support of his dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olczyk, reporting from Ball Arena in Denver, started his segment by reading off the names of 18 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-264087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}