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Shoot For A Cure Hockey, established in 2000, is a hockey-focused campaign of the American and Canadian Spinal Research Organizations (registered charities established 1984). It is directly focused on and led by the hockey community. The Shoot For A Cure campaign seeks to raise funds for spinal cord research, to raise awareness of spinal cord injuries in hockey and to promote prevention of hockey-related spinal cord injuries through the Play it Cool ™ prevention program. ....more

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Director of Hockey Operations for Shoot For A Cure Kerry Goulet, Joins the “10 countries in 10 days"

Director of Hockey Operations for Shoot For A Cure, Kerry Goulet, Joins the “10 countries in 10 days” Tour to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the NHLPA Goals & Dreams Fund

This is an excerpt from www.nhlpa.com/10in10 where the entire journey was chronicled in video, photos and blog entries.

Day Eight – NHLPA Goals & Dreams finishes European aspect of tour in Frankfurt, Germany

It was another early morning start for us today. We left our hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia at 5:00am to head to the airport. It was questionable whether or not we would get out of Sarajevo this morning. Surrounded by mountains, Sarajevo was engulfed by fog and delayed our flight to Vienna by almost an hour. With just over an hour between that flight and our connecting flight to Frankfurt, the G&D crew was getting a little anxious. (Actually, Stock was pretty much crying like a school girl. But it’s been like that most of the trip, ‘I'm tired?’, ‘when are we gonna eat?’, ‘how much longer?’)

We concluded our Euchre tournament on the flight to Germany. With Stock and Smith holding a lead heading into the trip, Zams and I mounted an epic comeback to win 10-9. However, Zams continued his giving ways by offering a chance to end the tournament in a tie. Stock and Smith did just that. So after countless hours of trash talk, chirping and playing this game on the plane during nearly every single one of our flights, the seemingly endless Euchre tournament fizzled out like a dud firework.

Nearing the homestretch of our whirlwind 10-country tour, the children we meet continue to impress us. Coming off a very emotional day yesterday, the kids from the Young Lions of Frankfurt program in Germany energized the G & D guys, and jump started this leg of the tour merely by chanting their team song.

Kerry Goulet, from “Shoot For A Cure” and “29 Sports”, joined the NHLPA G&D crew in Frankfurt today. Kerry played in Germany for many years and is organizing the NHLPA Goals & Dreams donation in Hannover and Timmendorf.

dream

i. a condition or achievement that is longed for
ii. a strongly desired goal or purpose

One day, many years ago, a doctor told me that I would never walk again. I did not believe it then, and I do not believe it now.

Nineteen years ago, I suffered a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed. Ever since that day I keep asking myself: “When am I going to walk again?” I knew I would walk again, I just had to find a way. My way was and still is the American and Canadian Spinal Research Organizations (ASRO/CSRO).

Thanks to thousands of people in North America, who provided financial support for SCI research, it is no longer a question of IF a cure for paralysis will be discovered, but instead, a question of WHEN. As a result, the CSRO has brought about many promising scientific discoveries.

Everyday we are getting closer to finding a cure, which will make our dreams of walking come true. With your help that dream will become a reality sooner.

I am a believer that I will walk again. I am also a dreamer. As Chairman of the CSRO, I invite you to help my dream and a dream of thousands of others with spinal cord injuries come true. ….more

I dare you to dream with me!

Barry Munro

Chairman
American and Canadian Spinal Research Organizations

“You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one.”