Perhaps the journalistic approach of today would be to be intrusive, callous and careless — to dig and find out why Leon Draisaitl left his team, the Edmonton Oilers, to travel to Germany to be with family during an illness.

Further, with all the technology and information avenues out there, we could try to connect the dots.

But that isn’t what we’re going to do. Last thing, in fact.

The Oilers sent out a media advisory asking for privacy for the Draisaitl family.

Absolutely.

It’s times like this when those of us around hockey — at all levels of hockey — are comforted by the warm fact that the hockey community is, indeed, a family in itself.

The stories are endless.

Whether it was the beyond tragic that late Friday afternoon when a bus ride ferrying the Humboldt Broncos turned tragic, or a teammate on a minor hockey team is going through a challenging........

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