When Flyers winger Oskar Lindblom underwent chemotherapy in 2020 to treat Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, he never doubted that he would come out the other side and be able to have a long, healthy NHL career.
Naturally, however, he had a lot of questions. How is this going to work? How long will the treatments take?
Six and a half months after his cancer diagnosis on Dec. 13, 2019, Lindblom received his answer. He completed chemotherapy treatments on July 2, 2020 and learned his scans were clear after his second checkup in December 2020. He returned to the Flyers lineup on Sep. 3, 2020 for Game 6 of their second-round series against the New York Islanders, a 5-4 double-overtime win, logging 17:30 of ice time.
