The bond between the young core of the Vancouver Canucks is growing stronger by the day. If one of the keys to winning is team chemistry, then the Canucks are working with a locker room full of bubbling beakers.
After 21-year-old Canucks All-Star Elias Pettersson went over 100 mph on both of his shots in the Hardest Shot competition at the All Star Game weekend, he made a grand gesture that was fully appreciated by his 22-year-old teammate Brock Boeser who was watching at home. As Pettersson announced that the $10,000 he had won as a result of his achievement would be split between two Parkinson's related charities, Boeser took it in stride. His father Duke has been struggling with Parkinson's since being diagnosed in 2010, and Pettersson's gift was more than an empty gesture. It was a nod to his teammate and Duke.
“I was kind of shocked when I heard it on the TV,” Boeser told Harman Dayal of The Athletic. “I was just thrown off. I was like, ‘Did they mess that up or something?' But then I asked him after and he said he picked it for my dad.
“It just shows the type of person he is and why he's one of my best friends. He's a caring kid and for him to do that, it means a lot to me and my family.”
The money will be split between the Parkinson Society of British Columbia and the Minnesota chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association.
Source: The Athletic
