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Podcast: Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
Episode: My Hockey Hero Gino Cavallini
Description: It's not uncommon for famous athletes to visit children in hospitals. Sometimes these visits are well publicized but many times it's done quietly. Undoubtedly, it has a profound impact on the young patients and their families by providing joy, hope and positivity. As a young St. Louis Blues player, Gino Cavallini would repeatedly show up for the five months I was in the hospital, always smiling and bursting with encouragement. Sometimes he'd come with signed hockey tickets or seven-foot-tall stuffed bunny, and other times with pizza, soda, beer and his fellow Blues teammates. Regardless, every time this t...