Seattle Kraken fan called a hero after noticing Canucks staffer's cancerous mole during game Social

[Swede]

A Seattle Kraken fan is being praised as a hero after helping the assistant equipment manager of the Vancouver Canucks identify a cancerous mole on his neck in the middle of a game.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seattle-kraken-brian-hamilton-cancer-1.6301987

[crickets]

1. Cool! Saw this earlier but didn't see who was behind the timely warning.

This is a wonderful story - good for Popovici for speaking up.

[Swede]

2. Kraken and Canucks are giving $10,000 to Nadia Popovici toward her medical school funding

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Cool story

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Kicking For Her Excellent Catch!

[Ron Obvious]

5. That's great and wonderful. But it's not "heroic"

Words like "hero" lose currency when misused like this.

[USALiberal]

6. Please post the criteria then so I'll know down the road!

[Ron Obvious]

7. It would have to involve an act of courage and bravery

Risking one's own safety for the benefit of others.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. The guy whose life was saved disagrees with you, but whatever.

"She extended my life, she saved my life," Hamilton said Saturday. "She didn't take me out of a burning car like [in] the big stories, but she took me out of a slow fire. The words out of the doctor's mouth were if I ignored that for four to five years, I wouldn't be here. I didn't [even] know [the mole] was there. She pointed it out. How she saw it boggles my mind. It wasn't very big. I wear a jacket [on the bench], I wear a radio on the back of my jacket that hooks on, so the cords are there. Like, she's a hero."