As is the case with almost all the overwhelmingly good and disturbingly bad things to be found on the internet, I've become dangerously desensitized to videos of professional athletes doing right by their most impressionable fans in offering souvenirs, autographs, and all that other fun stuff to children. Therefore, the lakes that started leaking down my face when Carey Price showed no hesitation in taking off his equipment to offer something far more moving than any piece of memorabilia to a kid who desperately needed it lead me to believe there was nothing average about that interaction. Saying someone is a great player and a better person has become a bit cliche, but credit to Carey Price for blurring the line between player and person while making the day of someone who was blurring the line between goalie fan and griever. That was just a special moment created a simple showing of sympathy that reminds even the most cold-hearted of curmudgeon that, from innocent kids to their athletic idols, we all have the emotional struggles that come as a result of being human in common.
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