When Jaroslav Modry heard last summer that his father was dying of colon cancer, he broke down.
"I cried for a whole day," the Flyers defenseman said.
He recalled his days growing up in the Czech town of Ceske Budejovic, where his father, Jaroslav, worked at a pub but always found time to take his son to hockey practice.
"Lots of people get affected by this," Modry said. "You take every day as a blessing."
Flyers' Modry coping with ill father | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/19/2008