As Emily Cave grieves the sudden loss of her husband, she can’t stop thinking about all the reasons she loved him. None of them have anything to do with him being a professional hockey player.



She thinks about the way he would help an elderly person in a grocery store, hold a door open or pay the bill at a restaurant for someone less fortunate.



She knew Colby’s kind and gentle nature would have made him a wonderful father – something they were working toward.



Before Colby’s tragic death at age 25 on April 11, the result of complications from a brain cyst, the couple had been planning a trip to Haiti in the hopes of starting the process of adopting a child.



“We had a saying: ‘Be somebody that makes everybody feel like a somebody,’” Emily said. “We always wanted to help. That’s the one thing about our relationship – we brought the best out of each other.”



Emily, 26, had...