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Katja Hischier: 'Nico is Good to All'

Katja Hischier softly put her hand to her heart. She was just asked about her son, the captain of the New Jersey Devils, Nico.

“It’s very special,” she beamed.

Katja is as soft-spoken as he is and exudes a palpable joy when talking about the man her son has become since the first day he arrived in New Jersey in 2017. He was just 18 years old then, a fresh-faced kid, the bright NHL lights thrust upon him.

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Hockey Moms: An Instant Bond

Although the Mom’s Suite at Prudential Center was chatty, there was very little that needed to be said amongst the Devils moms on Thursday night to know that they all share a deep bond. Most, if any, really knew each other, but crossing through that threshold into the lounge, you’d never know it. It was like running into old friends reuniting.

They all get each other.

“Being here with all these moms, all these moms understand,” Lisa Cotter, Paul’s mom, said. “They understand when we're watching the game, we don't have to look at each other. It's okay. It's not rude. It is unbelievable.”

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The T-Shirt: Eat, Sleep, Live Hockey

One of the first t-shirts Jesper Bratt’s mom bought him as a kid had a very simple message. Scrawled out on the front were four words:

Eat, Sleep, Live Hockey.

Little did Karin Bratt know, but that t-shirt would, in some ways, would become the motto of the Bratt family’s life; especially Jesper’s.

“He lived that. He did that all the time. Everything was hockey,” she said from the stands of RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House just prior to the Devils and their moms departing for a road trip in Washington.

She is here in New Jersey on her first moms' trip, eight years into her son's incredible rise to stardom in the NHL.

Those words of eat, sleep, and living hockey are everything that Jesper has done - and continues to do - to get to this point where he can share in this noteworthy experience with his mom. It has been a lot of eating, sleeping and living hockey to arrive at this moment. And boy is Karin glad they're here because this was the only outcome in life that Jesper was looking for.

“I am so glad that he came all the way,” she laughed. “Because he never had a backup plan. Never.”

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