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Posted by GSH-Webby on Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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Hey Boys,
This is our good buddy Pecker who us Gongshow lads played Junior A with back in Kanata in the CJHL. He was diagnosed with cancer a short while ago, and he's battling hard for his life right now. I thought i would share his story with you all, as it puts everything in perspective. We are all pulling for Pecker, and we are confident he will pull through this. Thanks for reading and supporting boys,
Macker
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The Nepean Raiders are an organization that harbours no grudges, coming to the aid of a grateful former player who once spurned them, reports Don Campbell.
Don Campbell, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, April 13, 2007
Now a little older, and as circumstance has dictated, all too suddenly a much wiser young man, if Chad Peck can laugh about anything right now, it's his short time as a Nepean Raider.
It lasted all of one 90-minute practice before then-Raiders coach Chris Byrne told him in not so many words that as much as he liked Peck's skills, he saw him as a third-line winger.
Peck, not totally out of character back then, disagreed. So much so, that quicker than you can drive from Peck's home town of Danford Lake to Kazabazua to shop, he was a Kanata Stallion.
Thankfully, all is forgiven. And Sunday, when the Raiders take to the ice for Game 4 of the Central Junior Hockey League final against the Pembroke Lumber Kings, they will honour and help the 25-year-old CJHL grad who is fighting the fight of his life. Peck has a rare type of sarcoma, a cancer with a high probability to recur that is more commonly found in young children.
Raiders owner Gord Black, a fellow West Quebec native, hopes to turn over more than $10,000 from gate receipts, a silent auction, a raffle and any donations to help the former minor league pro pay some bills as he undergoes treatment.
Supply teachers who take ill receive no benefits. Peck must rely on family to get by.
"I think (Nepean) was a little peeved," Peck said, laughing, yesterday. "But, at the time, there were two or three teams that wanted me and I had to do what was best for me."
In short order, he went from Jr. B with the Shawville Pontiacs, discounting the night with the Raiders, to the Stallions, then on to the Gloucester Rangers before heading east in 2001-02 to win a national junior A Royal Bank Cup with the Halifax Oland Exports.
For the following four seasons, Peck lived a nomadic existence in the low minors, with teams such as the Lakeland Loggerheads, Jacksonville Barracudas, Alabama Slammers, Motor City Mechanics, Fayetteville FireAntz and the Quad City Mallards.
Finally, last spring, it was time to take a real job.
So he started off last fall supply teaching at Symmes Junior High School and D'Arcy McGee High School in Aylmer.
All was well until early one morning in early November when Peck awoke with what he thought was just maybe some sleep in his left eye. He couldn't get it out, but nevertheless went to McGee to oversee a history class.
"The kids were watching a film and every time I turned out the lights, then turned them back on, it got worse," said Peck. "I had done some landscaping a while back and thought maybe I'd got a piece of brick in the eye. It was just the blurriness in the eye."
Three weeks later, the blurriness turned to darkness and Peck was scared.
He went from the emergency department at one hospital to an eye doctor to a neurologist who set up a magnetic resonance imaging test and put a "rush" on the results. Those results showed a "major mass" pushing on an optic nerve.
Peck, the patient, thought there would still be no problem: Get it out and his sight would come back. The doctor knew better. He told him it was cancer, a very aggressive form, and that it was possible he would go blind.
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Posted by MAC@GSH on Thursday, October 19, 2006
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FORWARD FROM MAC: Boys, i dont want get all sappy but this shook me up - what a great story of being a hero and breaking through any barriers you have in life....whether it be a lack of skill, a injury, or a disability - we can do anything we want if we truly put our body and mind to it. This kind of shit makes you really appreciate life, what a beauty....this guy may be the best dad in the world.
From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, ....CONTINUED
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Posted by MAC@GSH on Thursday, June 22, 2006
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#5 Don’t wear socks with sandals; this is just plain wrong and you fucken know it. This is a pure blow up for yourself with any ladies, and a Billy Guerin-tee you blow up the boys too – a selfish suicide bomber move on any Canadian patio with the lads. If you do this, you are NOT a GONGSHOW HOCKEY boy. www.gongshowhockey.com
#4 If you suck at hockey don’t grow hockey hair – only true beauties who can play the game are entitled to grow the sacred flow (see Ryan Smyth, Oilers). You see a hockey players flow is an important aspect of our image; something we take pride in and we spent a lot of time and effort on. That’s right, battling through the tough stages of when your hair wasn’t short but wasn’t long either; battling through the hat only stage where you couldn’t grease up the flow –it’s a helluva process when it comes down to getting it done. So, if you’re a duster don’t grow it – keep it short and tight like your knob. If you do choose to grow it and you’re a plug, you are NOT a GONGSHOW HOCKEY boy. www.gongshowhockey.com
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Posted by MAC@GSH on Thursday, June 15, 2006
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Hey Boys, we get a lot of questions sent in to us so we thought we would document some of them for your reading pleasure….
Did you guys play at a high level of hockey?
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Posted by MAC@GSH on Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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With all the bets against them now, the oil have dug themselves into a deep hole, as they look for that every elusive spark to turn this series around. Yeah I know they are down 3-1 now and only a handful of teams have ever come back from this deficit – but you can’t just roll over and die. Need some inspiration? Just think about the pretty ladies you’ll be partying with in June while having beers with the boys on a luxury boat in Florida……CONTINUED BELOW |
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