Tragic Loss for Calgary Flames as Assistant GM, Passes Away at 42

 

Calgary Flames assistant general manager and Vice-president of data and analytics, Chris Snow has died aged 42. He died of complications from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Snow was reportedly diagnosed in 2019, with the progressive nervous system disease that affects brain cells and the spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control. Snow’s wife, Kelsie confirmed his death on Saturday.

Kelsie posted a heart-warming picture of the couple with their two children saying “Today we hugged Chris for the last time and said goodbye as he went to give four people the gift of life by donating his kidneys, liver and lungs.”

“We are deeply broken and deeply proud. In life and in death, Chris never stopped giving. We walk forward with his light guiding us”, she added.

Kelsie has been chronicling her husband’s journey with ALS on her social media and through her blog “Sorry, I’m sad.” On September 27, she shard that her Chris was now “unresponsive and went into cardiac arrest.”

She wrote “with a shattered heart I’ve come to share that yesterday Chris became unresponsive and went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics and doctors were able to get his heart beating again but, devastatingly, a scan showed Chris has suffered a catastrophic brain injury caused by lack of oxygen.”

“His doctors do not expect him to wake up from this. My chest feels cracked open and hollowed out. Chris is the most beautiful, brilliant person I’ll ever know and doing life without him feels untenable. Hug your people.”

In 2006, Chris Snow was hired by the Minnesota Wild of the NHL as the director of hockey operations. He became director of hockey analysis for the Calgary Flames, in 2011. He was promoted to Assistant General Manager in 2019, where he mostly worked in data analysis.

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