"What TAPS does for our children is provide opportunities that they get to be amongst other adults, say like with the Capitals today, participating in an event with men, and sometimes women, where my husband, maybe he wouldn't have been playing ice hockey with Seth but he would have been introducing Seth to activities and sports and doing things as a father-son," Debbie Parrish said. "Although this doesn't take the place, it's something huge in his life. He gets to look up to these guys and have that really special feeling that he's important."
Oshie presented Seth with a Capitals' jersey before the practice and then brought Seth out onto the ice at the end of practice. Seth later passed pucks to Schmidt to help him work on his one-timers and skated around and took shots with Chorney and Tom Wilson, who had one of his sticks cut down so Seth could use it and gave him another stick that he autographed.
"It looked he just wanted to score goals, which is good," Oshie said. "Hopefully, he's going to be wearing that real sweater one day."
