Article content“I wouldn’t be in the position I’m in if I wasn’t fortunate enough to grow up playing hockey,” he explained. “We try to give every kid the opportunity … that myself and Dawson and Ryan Greene had growing up here in Newfoundland and Labrador. That’s the major cause, and obviously Iris Kirby House and the Cancer Care Foundation are both big projects here that deserve the funding and the money that we’re trying to raise, too.”