One month after he stopped breathing, one month after a pulse couldn’t be found on him for more than 15 minutes after a piece of a blood clot broke off in his groin, traveled to his pulmonary artery and triggered heart failure in his Burnsville, Minn., home, Duke Boeser is on a feeding tube directly into his stomach and a breathing tube directly into his windpipe.



He’s not supposed to talk, yet a few days ago on the day he was being transferred to Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul, the man they call “Miracle Duke” looked at his hockey-playing son and softly whispered, “I have to pee.”



“Which was … amazing,” Brock Boeser, the Vancouver Canucks young star and Minnesota native, said, smiling. “My mom broke down crying. A month ago, they were doing chest compressions on him for 10 minutes, he turned blue on us for like 15 or 20 minutes. Then, we get him to the hospital, and they lost his pulse again and he ends up...