In a statement to Global News<\/a>, the Kings said a staff member found the family at Game 5 on Tuesday and had \u201ca great conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c(They) also spoke again by phone yesterday as we offered to bring them out to LA for Game 6,\u201d said the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cEither way we are going to support the Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation with our auction proceeds from Game 6 on Saturday,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
Once the story had made the rounds on social media, disappointed Kings fans rallied to support Cecily\u2019s cause, raising more than $30,000 to her Stollery donation page in less than two days, according to the Kings.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot all kings fans are toxic, very few of us are. That lady doesn\u2019t represent us and we don\u2019t claim her,\u201d read a donation note from LAKingsTalk1199.<\/p>\n
\u201cReal Kings fans are rooting for you,\u201d said a supporter that donated $25.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe support you! Love from the Kings fanbase.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement posted on Twitter, the Eklund family thanked all the donors for supporting the cause and said they would not be saying more on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, Dave & Cheryl told you about Cecily Eklund, a young cancer survivor who\u00a0was gifted the trip to L.A. to watch her beloved Edmonton Oilers play the Kings in the first round of the NHL playoffs.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[4659],"class_list":["post-34501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news","tag-edmonton-oilers"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 17:44:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/04\/l-a-kings-step-up-for-oilers-fan\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34502,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions\/34502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}