The Goalie's Surgeon

A clean hit ended the hockey career Cash Benjamin was born for, and every doctor after that told him to accept a ruined knee.

No contract and no insurance left him with no future on the ice, until Halo House gave him somewhere to land and keep fighting.

For months he chased a referral to Dr. Thaddeus Vale, the brilliant, intimidating surgeon and former NCAA player trusted with professional athletes' careers.

Vale did what no one else would: he offered to operate, and Cash agreed to another surgery and a long, grueling recovery for one more shot at the only life he had ever wanted.

Sharing a roof with that doctor was not part of the plan, and neither was wanting the silver-fox Daddy he saw in him.

Halo House was meant to put Cash back in the game, not hand him a future he might want even more.