Longtime Pittsburgh Penguins insider shares crucial update in his cancer fight after brain MRI

Good news has looked different lately for longtime Pittsburgh hockey writer Dave Molinari.

It no longer means a kid graduating with honors or a sunny forecast for a weekend outing.

This week, it meant hearing that a brain MRI showed no sign that his lung cancer had spread there, a development he shared through his Substack newsletter, Of Pucks & Penguins.

Molinari got the word Wednesday evening from an oncologist who reviewed the scan, not the radiologist who officially reads them, but he trusted the read given how many similar images that doctor has likely seen over the years.

The scan itself, he wrote, was almost boring.

About thirty minutes of lying still, eyes closed, listening to sounds no one would ever dance to, aside from a small pinch when contrast fluid went into his arm.

The days between the MRI and the call were the real test.

Every minor ache became a reason to worry the cancer had reached his brain, even when the far more likely explanation was ordinary sinus pressure.

That fear lifted the moment he hung up the phone.

He described feeling ready to run a triathlon and win it outright.

The relief comes with limits. A PET scan on September 23 will determine whether the cancer has spread beyond his lungs, and cataract surgery follows on September 29.

Molinari was careful to note he still has cancer, and whatever comes next in treatment likely won't be pleasant.

But as he put it, the fight is worth having, especially when small wins start to add up.

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