Tim Murray is fighting for his Uncle Bryan Murray, and we are too. http://t.co/p0dC0b0BkY #HockeyFightsCancer pic.twitter.com/j8vYCVTfta
— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) November 14, 2014November is Hockey Fights Cancer month. The NHL community is raising awareness and continuing the dialogue regarding the insidious disease and how best to be proactive about treating the symptoms early before they exacerbate and get worse.
Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray announced in July that he was fighting cancer. Murray has been undergoing treatment.
On Thursday night, we found out just how dire and desperate that his personal cancer fight really is.
Murray told TSN's Michael Farber the he has an aggressive form of Stage 4 colon cancer that has spread to his liver and lungs.
"There is no cure at this point for me," Murray said. "The word is that we'll keep doing chemo and hopefully reduce the tumors and the effect and I'll get some time out of that."
The cancer of the Ottawa Senators GM, who is also the uncle and mentor to Buffalo Sabres GM Tim Murray, has progress into Stage 4. The cancer has spread into other parts of his body.
The cautionary tale is that Murray's form of cancer is very treatable with early detection.
Murray says he made the mistake of not having a routine colonoscopy exam.
"I didn't have a colonoscopy which I should've had," Murray admitted. "I don't know why I didn't. One of the comments that came back to me on a regular basis, 'You're healthy, you're from a family that hasn't had any disease whatsoever. We can maybe wait.' But that's also my fault in that I should've demanded or at least asked for. But like a lot of men do, we put it off."
"A simple colonoscopy in my case probably would've solved the problem I have."
Tragic.
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The trees were covered with beautiful foliage and Terry Pegula had not yet assumed ownership of the Buffalo Bills the last time the Buffalo Sabres scored a first period goal.
It had been 13 straight games since Ted Nolan's struggling Sabres had lit the lamp in the first period of a game.
That ugly streak came to an end on Thursday night in St. Paul when pit bull on skates Zemgus Girgensons beat out an icing call. Rasmus Ristolainen was credited with the goal when his point shot evaded a wobbly Darcy Keumper.
Moments later, the Girgensons sent Keumper to the showers with this beauty.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the #1 puck possession team in the NHL scored two PPGs and two even strength goals on Jhonas Enroth. In fact, there were three goals scored in 17 seconds. One of those was that of Girgensons.
6:07 Carter 6:14 Niederreiter 6:24 Girgensons
The 3 goals scored by the teams in 17 seconds a #Sabres franchise record. Previously 18 seconds (2/1/76 at California). -@SabresPR #BUFvsMIN
— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) November 14, 2014
The Wild out shot the Sabres 20-5 in the first period.
Lon story short, the Sabres put up a valiant fight, however at the end of the day, they lost 6-3.
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