Canucks employee thanks fan who noticed cancerous mole; she's awarded $10K scholarship

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Seattle — Brian “Red” Hamilton was in the middle of moving equipment on the Vancouver Canucks' bench in between periods on Oct. 23 in Seattle when he noticed a woman behind the bench pressing her phone against the plexiglass.

The message on her phone was written in a large font and caught the attention of Hamilton, the assistant equipment manager for the Canucks. The message expressed Nadia Popovici's concern that she believed a mole on the back of Hamilton’s neck was cancerous and that he needed to get it checked.

It turned out she was right.

“I felt bad at the moment because I’m walking off the bench and she put her phone up to the glass and on the phone it said the mole on the back of your neck is cancer. And it threw me off,” Hamilton recalled on Saturday before the Canucks played their second game of the season in Seattle.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/2022/01/02/canucks-employee-thanks-fan-who-noticed-cancerous-mole/9071845002/