Kraken fan pointed out Canucks staffer's cancerous mole during game

Seattle Kraken fan Nadia Popovici's good deed changed the life of a member of the Vancouver Canucks.

On Saturday afternoon, the Canucks shared a letter from their assistant equipment manager, Brian Hamilton, who explained his situation:

I am trying to find a very special person and I need the hockey community's help. To this woman I am trying to find, you changed my life, and now I want to find you to say THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Problem is I don't know who you are or where you are from. I do know that you were sitting behind the Canucks bench the night the Seattle Kraken played their first-ever home game.

That evening, Oct. 23rd, and the message you showed me on your cell phone will forever be etched into my brain and has made a true life-changing difference for me and my family. Your instincts were right and that mole on the back of my neck was a malignant melanoma and thanks to your persistence and the quick work of our doctors, it is now gone.

I want you all to know that this isn't about me. It's about an incredible person taking the time to notice something concerning and then finding a way to point it out during the chaos of a hockey game. Going to great lengths to get my attention from the stands while I did my lob on the Canucks bench. We are looking for this incredible person and we need you to share this with your friends and families to help us find a real life hero, so I can express my sincerest gratitude.

Within two hours of the team tweeting Hamilton's letter, a Kraken fan Facebook group identified Popovici as the fan in question, according to the Seattle Times' Marisa Ingemi.

Popovici, a 2019 college graduate who'll soon be attending medical school, wasn't immediately aware of the Canucks' search because she'd worked a crisis hotline overnight Friday.

"I woke up with my mom's phone call and she was like, 'Nadia, you have no idea what’s going on,'" Popovici told Ingemi. "She sent me the statement the (Canucks) put out, and it said they were looking for me. There was a lot of screaming. I couldn't believe it."

Hamilton had more to say about his 22-year-old savior on Saturday afternoon.

The two reunited at Saturday night's game between the Canucks and the Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena.

The Canucks and the Kraken then teamed up to help fund Popovici's medical school tuition with a sizeable scholarship.

Popovici told Ingemi that she became familiar with melanomas in her time volunteering at hospitals.