Brent Saik is hoping he and 39 other skaters will keep the record for the world’s longest hockey game.
Saik started the World’s Longest Hockey Game in support of the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Cross Cancer Institute in 2003.
Just a few months after he held the first event in memory of his father, Terry Saik, who died of cancer in 1994, Saik’s wife, Susan, died from cancer in June 2003.
It’s their images on the wall that inspire him to keep going, keep skating and keep pushing for a future where cancer is no longer a death sentence.
“It saves a lot of people’s lives,” said Saik.
Since 2003, the World’s Longest Hockey Game has raised more than $3.4 million, supporting revolutionary projects at the Cross Cancer Institute.