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Well, you have a chance to play side by side Islanders, Captain Anders Lee this weekend, not on the ice, but you can play can jam with him and some Islanders for Lee's annual cancer jam fundraiser. News. Jen Selig is live in East Meadow right now with the Can Foundation founder Jen. What can we expect this weekend? You can expect to have a lot of fun if you do come here and participate in the fundraiser with me. I have Jamie Crimmins. You are the founder of the event. It's been going on for a long time and it was pretty much founded in your backyard in a backyard. Since 2014. I was running in the New York City marathon. Needs raised money for Sloan Kettering and went to an event, saw somebody playing can jam and thought it would be a good idea to have a tournament. And that's how we began. And then how did the Islanders get involved? So in 2017, we had our third event and a young man named Fop Pierre Louis came and made a speech at the event and made us all fall in love with him. Um I talked to Andrew a couple of days after he asked how the event went and I sent him the speech. He called me back 20 minutes later and said, I want to help that kid. I want to help kids like him. Can I do a cancer jam event? And that was seven years ago and about $2.7 million ago. And it's all to raise money for families that are battling with cancer. And there's going to be an auction. Actually, the auction is live right now is live right now. People can go to it on visit Jamin thean.com. But we have a lot of Islanders memorabilia jerseys from pretty much everybody on the team. We have some Yankee Jerseys, a kind of bedard hockey fights, Cancer jersey. A Jon Bon Jovi autograph guitar. We've got Ranger Islander tickets at Madison Square Garden and UBS Arena. We've got a suite at an Islander game. We have a suite for the monster truck jam at UBS in February and a bunch of other things too. A lot going on. And I know Andrew Lee is going to be coming here this morning to play some can jam with us too. You think we'll beat him? He's terrible. So you'll definitely beat him on that too. But that's ok. We're going to have fun with it. Stay tuned for that. We're going to send it back to you guys in the studio. All right, the Gauntlet's been thrown down. We're gonna see how he plays later on today. Thank you, Jen.

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