Three Glasgow Clan ice hockey stars today went to great pains to help a young woman raise money for a cancer charity while she goes through chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
The players may need to be tough guys on the ice, but they winced more than a few times when they got their legs waxed as part of the Clan\u2019s fundraising effort for 20-year-old Alix Maitland.<\/p>\n
The student nurse, from Paisley hadn\u2019t been showing any symptoms and was shocked when doctors gave her the devastating news that the pea-sized lump in her neck was Stage Four Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphoma cancer that had spread to her neck, chest, spleen and bones.<\/p>\n
But despite going through gruelling chemotherapy sessions, Alix \u2013 who is one of the flag bearers who skate around the Braehead Arena ice rink before a Clan game \u2013 decided to raise money for the Lymphoma Action charity.<\/p>\n
As well as the Clan players \u2013 Canadians Drew McLean and Gary Haden along with American Jeff Solow \u2013 taking part in the sponsored leg shave, Clan bosses have also dedicated their home game against Manchester Storm on Sunday, 19th February at Braehead Arena to raising money for Lymphoma Action.<\/p>\n
The Clan players will wear limited edition hockey jerseys that are specifically designed to promote Alix\u2019s fundraising efforts. Fans can then bid to own the tops when they are auctioned after the match with all profits going to the Lymphoma Action charity.<\/p>\n
There will also be a bucket collection at the Arena during the game and information leaflets about Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphoma will be handed out to raise awareness about the disease and its early symptoms.<\/p>\n
After having his legs waxed by Clan physio, Kirsty Rodgers with equipment and wax provided by Glasgow\u2019s Waxed at Hair in the City beauty salon, defenceman Drew McLean said: \u201cThe pain was a lot worse than I expected and it\u2019s the first time I remember seeing my legs without any hair!<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was certainly worth going through the leg waxing for such a good cause.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to let Alix know that we\u2019re here supporting her and she\u2019s not going through everything on her own.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clan forward, Gary Haden admitted he had been both looking forward to helping Alix, but also dreading the leg waxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut considering what Alix is going through just now,\u201d he said. \u201cThe thought of having my legs waxed was an easy decision because we\u2019re helping raise money for an amazing cause.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone knows Alix\u2019s story, so Jeff, Drew and I were only too happy to get involved and help in any way we can.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking ahead, I\u2019m sure the pain will be worth it in the end to help Alix and raise the awareness for this disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alix is also a part-time ice steward during public skating sessions at Braehead Arena and two of her colleagues at the rink Josh Seggie and Ross O\u2019Hagen volunteered to join the players and have their legs waxed as well.<\/p>\n
Log on to http:\/\/ow.ly\/1yHG50MRPl2<\/a> to donate to the JustGiving Page the Clan has set up to help Alix\u2019s fundraising effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Glasgow Clan ice hockey stars today went to great pains to help a young woman raise money for a cancer charity while she goes through chemotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ice-hockey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","joomsport-thmb-medium":"","rn-home-thumb":"","rn-home-rect":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Ricky Kelly","author_link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/author\/mudricky\/"},"category_info":"Ice Hockey<\/a>","tag_info":"Ice Hockey","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180627,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180454\/revisions\/180627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}