The Untold Story Behind the Woman Who Shaped Josh Manson’s Journey to the NHL
I don’t know what they saw in me exactly, or in my game. I kind of just kept barely making teams and sort of scraping by. I had no NHL dreams or anything like that. But they believed in me, in who I could become. That year, there was a new coach on my team, and I really clicked with him. I started to have fun on the ice, in a way that I didn’t really know was possible. I saw the game in a completely different light.
I think about that time in my life pretty often, and I wonder where I’d be if it weren’t for my mom.
Somewhere along the way, her work ethic became ingrained in me. And at each level I pushed harder and harder. It got me through juniors, through college, into the draft and onto an NHL roster. But this story isn’t about me. It’s not about my journey. I want this to be about awareness. I know people might read that and sort of shrug it off. Everyone knows about cancer, man. My point is this, though: Cancer impacts nearly everyone in your life. Everyone knows someone, or has experienced it first hand. And the progress we’re making in the fight against it is real. And it’s because of the efforts of the people who work in research, who work in the hospitals — who do the work behind the scenes. But those people can’t do their jobs without funding. And it’s more important than ever that we stay supporting these causes, because more people are being impacted than ever before.
And because we all want more time with the people we love.
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