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Bob Jones, Senators assistant coach, identified with ALS

January 24, 2023
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Bob Jones, Senators assistant coach, identified with ALS

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The Ottawa Senators introduced Tuesday that assistant coach Bob Jones, 53, has been identified with ALS. In a press release launched by Senators common supervisor Pierre Dorion, he mentioned Jones will proceed teaching for now.

“A loyal member of our household, Bob Jones, has been identified with ALS,” Dorion mentioned in his assertion. “Bob and his household’s needs are to take the brave step of constructing his situation public in an effort to drive ALS consciousness as he fights this illness. 

“We have been working internally with Bob and his household as he takes on this problem; whereas Bob will proceed together with his teaching duties, he has the total help of the group to take any time he wants away from the membership in the course of the season to focus on his well being and his household.”

According to Mayo Clinic, ALS, quick for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is “a progressive nervous system illness that impacts nerve cells within the mind and spinal twine, inflicting lack of muscle management.”

Jones and his household made the information public as a result of they hope to make use of his prognosis as a chance to boost consciousness for ALS analysis. The household has requested these seeking to help Jones to make donations to the ALS Society of Canada or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Jones was employed by Senators head coach D.J. Smith in 2019, and he has been an assistant on the teaching workers ever since. He beforehand labored within the AHL and coached within the OHL for greater than twenty years.

Chris Snow, the assistant common supervisor of the Calgary Flames, additionally has ALS. He was identified in January 2020.

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