Finally cancer-free, 3-year-old ‘Mighty Quinn’ drops the puck at Bruins game

After 3-year-old Quinn Waters underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor, Boston Bruins forward Charlie Coyle sent him a message of support on Facebook during the Stanley Cup playoffs earlier this year after he found out they both were from Weymouth.

As “Mighty Quinn” underwent four rounds of chemotherapy and then a stem cell transplant, Coyle went to visit him.

And last night, finally cancer-free, Quinn dropped the puck at the TD Garden as the Bruins took on the San Jose Sharks for Beth Israel Lahey Healthy Hockey Fights Cancer Night.

After taking the ceremonial faceoff, Coyle did Quinn one better: In the second period, the fellow Weymouth native scored his second goal of the season, the Bruins’ third of the game, to give the Bruins a two-goal lead.

“It meant a lot to us,” Quinn’s father, Jarlath Waters, told the Herald Tuesday. “Charlie really lifted Quinn’s spirits And it means a lot that the team reached out to us when Quinn was sick. It helped us through a rough patch. And now we get to celebrate him being better.”

Quinn’s last MRI on Sept. 26 showed no sign of new disease, his father said. And although he will have to have a new MRI every three months for the next year, and then every six months for the rest of his life, Quinn’s father said, “That’s as good as it gets. It’s a blessing. We get to enjoy Christmas.”

from Boston Herald https://ift.tt/34hQWfz