Toronto Maple Leafs raising funds for ALS organization in memory of Börje Salming
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are raising funds for ALS Action Canada in memory of Leafs legend Börje Salming. Here's how you can help.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are raising funds for ALS Action Canada in memory of Leafs legend Börje Salming, who died recently after a battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The team said in a statement that on Wednesday, it will be offering a one-day promotion with all net proceeds from sales of the team’s reverse retro sweater going towards the organization.
It can be bought online at shop.realsports.ca, at the in-person Real Sports Apparel store, or at the shop at Scotiabank Arena.
The team sweaters from Wednesday’s game against the San Jose Sharks will also be auctioned off this week with the proceeds going to the organization, the statement said.
The auction will be held online at auctions.realsports.ca from Wednesday at 12 p.m. until Saturday at 8 p.m.
Meanwhile, for the rest of the season, the sweater patch worn by the team to honour Salming will be made available for sale to the public. All net proceeds from those sales will go to ALS Action Canada as well, the Leafs said.
“On behalf of ALS Action Canada, the first and only ALS patient-led advocacy organization in this country, we thank the Toronto Maple Leafs for its generosity in supporting our work to help ALS families urgently access new drug therapies, get better access to clinical trials, and push for increased research funding for (a) cure,” said Mark Kirton, a Leafs alumnus and member of the organization.
“Börje Salming’s death reminds us all that it is time to raise our voices and come together as a country to end this horrific and torturous disease now.”
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