From Team Tschupp: 
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Any support you can provide - financially, emotionally or mindfully - will help Chris win his battle and live a long and happy life.  We appreciate your generosity and kindness in joining us in this fight.  
From Chris: 
My name is Chris Tschupp. I was born in New York State and raised in Toms River, New Jersey. My grandmother taught me how to skate at 4 years old; by the time I was 5, I knew I needed to play hockey. I made my first travel team as a Mite and there was no looking back: I started to chase my passion alongside my best friend, Bob Cielo. 
I played hard for the next 20 years: Bricktown, NJ, the Philadelphia Little Flyers, Toms River High School East, Trinity-Pawling Prep School, University of Notre Dame and minor league pro hockey. In June 1990, the two decades of hard work paid off: I was selected as the 125th Overall Pick in the NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames - The Stanley Cup Champions! It was the biggest honor of my life. After working so hard through youth, high school and college hockey my dreams had come true, thanks to a lot of blood, sweat, tears and grit along the way.
FAST-FORWARD, 29 YEARS AFTER THE NHL DRAFT:
A few years ago I noticed that my fingers had started curling, my hands were getting weaker and I could no longer hold a hockey stick. I saw a chiropractor, a spine surgeon, had X-rays taken of my neck and spine, got a cervical MRI, a brain MRI with contrast, an EMG and a nerve conduction study. 
Everything was pointing towards “stenosis” in my neck. The stenosis, apparently, was putting pressure on a nerve that controls my hands. “Okay, no problem,” I told myself. “I’ll get a laminectomy surgical procedure and my hands will be cured.” I saw a hand specialist who agreed that the nerves in my neck were not firing down to my hands. 
But then my speech started to slow - a huge red flag. I immediately went to see a neurologist (a motor neuron specialist) and after testing, he came back with a shocking diagnosis: I had ALS, and I had between 2 and 5 years left to live. I was devastated. 

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