28-02-2019 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com

How a young Ottawa boy got to play hockey

Before he got his prosthesis, nine-year-old Greg Upton held his hockey stick by pressing it against his chest.
Greg was born missing the index finger and middle finger on his left hand and he has just the first joints of his ring finger and baby finger.
His father, Johnathan, says they didn’t know that Greg had a small hand before he was born because it didn’t show up on the ultrasound. When they found out, they joined the War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program, a program geared towa
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