The Saskatoon blades are sticking it to diabetes in Friday night’s game dedicated to diabetes awareness -- having a specially designed goalie helmet and a chuck a puck event.
The Saskatoon Blades are sticking it to diabetes tonight as the Lethbridge Hurricanes come to town. But as Destiny Meilleur tells us it means a bit more for two blades players and one of them has the mask to show it.Evan Gardner, Blades goalie and number 35, has Type 1 diabetes and designed his goalie helmet for Diabetes Awareness Month and to share his personal journey.
The helmet will be won in Friday’s game and then will be auctioned off the following week to raise money for Diabetes Canada’s day camps.The helmet features symbols like the medical alert, a minion with a insulin pump and the puzzle piece – to honour his little brother with autism.“There’s some small, small details on the minions that I’m having a pump.
“Not really any of my friends knew what diabetes was. So everyone getting to know what diabetes is about and having on the whole game dedicated diabetes, it’s pretty cool,” said Olsen. Olsen added that he hopes this game will show children with diabetes that nothing can stop them and diabetes doesn’t need to put a halt to their dreams.
“I think they’re going to look up to it and it’s going to mean a lot for them because I know when I was first diagnosed, I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep playing hockey and like, I didn’t know what my world was going to look like. But I think them, after seeing this, they’re going to realize that it’s not over and that they can keep going,” said Olsen.
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