A teen will be able to play hockey thanks to his idols

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Kory-Anthony Roy-Lagacé listening sometimes to music for three hours per day he spends in his new hyperbaric chamber.

Amélie St-Yves

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 01:00

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RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP | teenager of an unknown disease will be able to continue to play hockey with the help of coaches from the national League and of the League major junior of Quebec.

Kory-Anthony Roy-Lagacé is a disease without a name that causes significant inflammation in his whole body.

The seizures occur when he catches a virus, on average, every four to six weeks. The goalkeeper from 15 years of Rivière-du-Loup is then nailed to the bed with suffering important for a number of days and must miss the hockey and the school.

The only treatment that has slowed its wrong up to this is to go into a hyperbaric chamber oxygen-rich.

The desire to put on his uniform of Blue and Gold bantam BB Rivière-du-Loup help them to stay positive. The teenager has been playing hockey since he was three years old and became friends with several of his idols.

He was often in the arenas of the QMJHL, and he was noticed because of the mask he had to wear to not get viruses.

It has already delivered a motivational speech before a game of the series Voltigeurs de Drummondville.

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The young goalie during a game with the Blue and Gold bantam BB Rivière-du-Loup in November 2016.

A beautiful gift

However, some of his idols gathered to offer him a beautiful gift.

Kory-Antony has done a good relapse the return of the Holiday season and the assistant coach of the Ottawa Senators, Martin Raymond, coach of the Victoriaville Tigers, Louis Robitaille, and the ex-captain of the Voltigeurs of Drummondville, Charles-David Beaudoin, launched a campaign sociofinancement to raise the $ 10,000 he needed to buy him this hyperbaric chamber.

The sum has been collected in 12 days, they announced Sunday.

The player of the Predators of Nashville, Frédérick Gaudreau, has contributed.

“I’m really happy because it will improve my quality of life and allow me to play hockey and to be able to go to school like a normal person,” said the teen, who is in secondary 3.

Six months without a crisis

Kory-Antony has had the opportunity to try a hyperbaric chamber for the first time during the Holiday season of 2016, and it has been almost six months without pain crisis.

The mother of the teenager, Valérie Roy, couldn’t see her young and in shape, and is reversed to see men of the QMJHL and the NHL unite to his son.

“What is concerning is that the adults have brought this child here to be a friend to them. They appreciate it a lot, ” she said.

The former captain of the Voltigeurs of Drummondville and now player of the Manitoba Moose, Charles-David Beaudoin, continued to be marked by the maturity of the teenager.

“It looks like he is an adult in the body of a child,” he said.

The coach of the Victoriaville Tigers, Louis Robitaille, is very proud of all of this solidarity that people have shown.

“I am a father of two children, and see children smile is what I love the most in the world. If I can allow him to have the smile every day, I will have achieved my goal, ” he says.