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Just over a year ago Adidas Tyler Graovac Jersey , Lauren Boyle was searching the internet for information on leukemia after husband Brian’s blood test showed serious irregularities.Now, she’s hoping to tell the hockey world her story.Lauren Boyle will be unveiled Thursday as the NHL’s Hockey Fights Cancer ambassador after her family’s turbulent 14-month ordeal. The New Jersey Devils forward who doubles as her husband and father of their two children recently announced his cancer is in remission, and she’s thankful for that and a “miracle” diagnosis that their now 3-year-old son is not after all battling the disease.“I just pray, that I can help anyone if they need it, whether it be advice or what got us through day to day from little things like how we changed Brian’s diet to praying or just how we spent our time,” Lauren Boyle said. “I would like to also raise money for research. It’s incredible what they can do with the right time and money.”Research helped develop a pill that Brian began taking twice daily the night in September 2017 he found out he had Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. And research not long after helped a doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital determine their son, Declan, had Arteriovenous malformation of the mandible rather than fatal carcinoma of the mandible — at odds of 1 percent.Lauren Boyle’s story should bring awareness to the NHL and NHL Players’ Association’s Hockey Fights Cancer initiative this month just as Nicholle Anderson’s did a year ago. The wife of Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson beat throat cancer and served in this ambassador role in 2017.Before the two women met at the NHL Awards in June when Brian received the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication, the Boyles went through a roller-coaster time that featured the birth of their second child Adidas Noah Hanifin Jersey , news of his cancer and Declan’s scare. In that time, they managed everything about Brian’s life and at times had to put hockey aside so he could accompany her to pick up their son from surgery because of concern he could bleed out while she was driving.“One time there was a snowstorm and we had to charter a plane, which we don’t really have business doing,” Lauren said. “But it is what it is and you’re going to just do whatever it takes to save your son.”Brian played in the All-Star Game, helped the Devils make the playoffs and now has four points in nine games. As Declan navigates a difficult but not impossible road through AVM that has so far included nine operations and the loss of some teeth, he was glad to see his father sometimes gets one or two knocked out.“We told him that the tooth fairy came early,” Lauren said. “Brian got a high stick a week or two ago and Declan was kind of happy to see that someone else gets boo-boos, too.” TAMPA, Fla. — Quick strikes have been the tone-setter for the Tampa Bay Lightning during a season-long, five-game homestand.The New Jersey Devils want to avoid another slow start when they visit Amalie Arena on Sunday.In the first two games of the homestand Adidas Alan Quine Jersey , Tampa Bay has scored in the opening minute and rode the momentum to victories against Florida and Chicago. Overall, the Lightning have opened the scoring in four consecutive games after giving up the first goal in nine of the previous 10.Article continues below ...Getting on the board first, especially early in the game, can change the approach to the game.“You’re not chasing the game,” Lightning forward Ryan Callahan said. “Obviously it’s a lot easier to play with the lead in this league. Teams are so talented it’s hard to come back sometimes. You know, to get behind the eight ball kills your momentum at home when you don’t score first, and it takes the crowd out of it pretty early. It’s a lot easier when you score that first goal, and I think even at home it’s more important just to get the crowd into it. It gets everyone going.”Tampa Bay continues to be without defenseman Anton Stralman and forward Ondrej Palat. Stralman has missed seven games with an upper-body injury while Palat has been out since Oct. 26 with a fracture in his left foot. Both players have been skating with the team and are considered day-to-day, though coach Jon Cooper said he expects at least one of the two players to return before the end of the homestand Friday.New Jersey, which was eliminated by Tampa Bay in the opening round of the playoffs last season Adidas Dougie Hamilton Jersey , is looking to climb out of the bottom of the Metro Division standings. Since starting the season with five wins in eight games (5-2-1), the Devils are 4-7-2 in the past 13, a stretch that began with an 8-3 loss to the Lightning on Oct. 30.Keeping the puck out of the net has been the biggest issue for New Jersey, which has allowed three or more goals eight times in those 13 games. The Devils have lost all eight of those games, including an overtime loss Friday to the New York Islanders when New Jersey started on its heels to begin the game and never fully recovered despite a late goal to salvage a point.“It was an unfortunate first period; we have to be way better,” New Jersey defenseman Andy Greene told NHL.com. Goaltender Keith “(Kinkaid) was fantastic and gave us a chance. If he doesn’t do that, the game is over in the first.”New Jersey will be without rookie forward Joey Anderson, who was placed on injured reserve with a lower right leg injury suffered when he went skates first in to the Montreal net on Wednesday. Anderson is expected to miss at least a week,coach John Hynes told reporters before Friday’s game.Brayden Point leads Tampa Bay with 15 goals while Nikita Kucherov paces the club with 30 points and 21 assists after recording three points in each of his last two games.