Ducks assistant coach Mike Stothers made a difficult and selfless announcement Saturday morning.
The quick-witted 61-year-old, now in second season behind the bench in Anaheim, has Stage 3 Melanoma of the Lymph Node and has already begun treatment at UCI Health.
Stothers provided details to local media this past weekend, describing the emotions of hearing the news from his doctors, his plans to continue coaching and the process on informing his loved ones and Ducks family.
But more important to the man known around the game as "Stutts" was not his own condition or outlook and certainly not any potential sympathy, but a simple message to those in the sport and beyond: "Listen to your body."
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