This summer has been a tough one for the NHL, with the sudden, tragic passing of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau rocking the entire sports world. Since that point, both the Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames paid tribute to their fallen star beautifully throughout the off-season, with the brothers to be remembered forever by anyone that ever witnessed them play.
Unfortunately, another tragedy has now struck the hockey world, as the Ontario Hockey League has now announced that 23-year old Kurtis Evans has tragically lost his battle with cancer and passed away at such a young age.
In their announcement post on social media, the OHL paid tribute to the 23-year old, along with his former team the North Bay Battalion, for whom he played 54 games between 2017 and 2019.
The family have asked people to donate to the Ewings Cancer Foundation of Canada as a way to honour and pay tribute to the memory of Evans, who has been noted as a fantastic person on and off the ice, with many saying beautiful words about him as a player and a person over the years. The pain the family, friends and former teammates of Evans are going through can't be understated, so we simply send our condolences to them, with the hopes that his memory lives on and they can find some type of joy and peace in the beautiful legacy that he left.
Source: Hockey Patrol
Former OHL player tragically passes away at 23 years old
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