NEW YORK — The Travis Roy Foundation charity hockey game ended at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, hours before the New York Rangers played the Pittsburgh Penguins. His memory was feted with tributes, a surprise and a final skate between teams split into red and white, friends and family joining them on the ice postgame.
For the first time, Travis wasn’t present at the game named in his honor because he died on Oct. 29, 2020 at age 45. His presence, though, was immeasurable, the mood bittersweet with his foundation ceasing to exist after June 2. It was also joyous with a fundraising total of $1 million for spinal cord injury survivors and research.
In one way it was closure. In another a bigger picture is being painted.
“A number of these players came up to me and said, we’re not going to let this stop and we’ll always be there,” said Lee Roy, Travis’ father and an on-ice official for the game. “It’s the people that are here but it’s also the hockey community. They just continue to…
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