Diana told her husband to fight for her, their kids and everyone who loved him. “We had a moment, which probably lasted 30 minutes, where all we did was cry,” Eddie Olczyk said. “I needed that.

Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The NHL player turned broadcaster was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana ...

Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The NHL player turned broadcaster was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana ...

Hockey greats Eddie Olczyk, right, and Mike Modano shake hands and visit before the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2012 induction dinner in Dallas on Oct. 15, 2012.

There were dates and goals that one by one Eddie Olczyk crossed off: the Breeders’ Cup, his daughter’s December graduation from Alabama, returning to the Blackhawks booth and finally Feb. 21.

Ed Olczyk, center, returns to NBC Sports as an NHL analyst and is joined by Kathryn Tappen, left, and Brian Boucher on Dec. 6, 2017, in Stamford, Connecticut. Credit: NBC Sports ...

“I think it’s OK to be scared,” Blackhawks TV analyst Eddie Olczyk said of his cancer fight in an interview on Thursday night. “I still am, because I’ll have to deal with cancer the rest ...

It was a scene out of a storybook, or maybe an Illinois tourism brochure, on August 6 for 28-year-old Eddie Olczyk and his now-fiancée, Erika. On a perfectly sunny Sunday on a downtown Chicago ...

Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The NHL player turned broadcaster was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana, he ...

Eddie Olczyk was ready to give up. The NHL player turned broadcaster was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana ...

Diana told her husband to fight for her, their kids and everyone who loved him. “We had a moment, which probably lasted 30 minutes where all we did was cry,” Eddie Olczyk said. “I needed that.

Hockey After beating cancer, Eddie Olczyk continues the fight Nov. 1, 2019 at 12:18 am Updated Nov. 1, 2019 at 10:12 am ...