The unpublished story of how Ryan O'Reilly was brought to St. Louis – The Athletic



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BOSTON – Ryan O'Reilly has hugged his parents with the kind of emotion that you can not really express.

They were on the ice, where he had just won the Stanley Cup in a season when no one would believe a fictional novel.

A 28-year-old native of Seaforth, Ontario, thanked his parents again and again and hugged them as closely as possible.

"Ah, that was so moving," O'Reilly said, crackled voice. "The hours and the money they invested, I would not be here, I would not have this position in the NHL if it was not their job and all they put. It was really moving. I could not help but thank them for putting their life aside for us and doing everything in their power to take us to the hockey games and their training. I just can not thank them enough. "

It's mom and dad who, a year ago, reminded their son that he was not the problem in Buffalo. That he would bounce back to St. Louis. Stay with that, …

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