9-Year-Old Brain Cancer Patient Spends Day With Flyers: "He Was Yelling On The Bench"

By Tom Dougherty, CBS Philadelphia

November 29, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Tuesday was a night to remember for a young Philadelphia Flyers fan battling cancer. The orange and black honored 9-year-old Owen Micciche during Hockey Fights Cancer Night.

Owen, an Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, native, was diagnosed with a pediatric brain tumor at 6 months old, and he's been fighting ever since. In July, doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found two new tumors in Owen's brain and spine.

The captain of the Genesis Hockey Club -- he wears No. 85 -- Owen skated with the Flyers during warmups, had his own locker in the team's Wells Fargo Center locker room and read the team's starting lineup. Owen even took a rookie lap with Flyers winger Owen Tippett and was on the bench during the game.

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