, Colby Cave's widow writes about his April death, which came less than a week after he suffered a brain bleed and was placed in a medically-induced coma.
The NHL player was 25. Emily begins her essay by writing about the days leading up to her husband's death, when they returned to Canada amid NHL shut down due to the coronavirus.
The couple had been spending time in California, where Colby was playing for the Edmonton Oilers' AHL affiliate, and returned to Canada to quarantine with her parents.Days before Colby's death, he got a call from Oilers assistant GM Keith Gretzky.«Keith told him, 'When the NHL returns, we're going to have you come, Black Ace,'» Emily recalls. «It makes me so happy that Colby knew that.
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