Philadelphia Flyers teammates tapping the ice with their sticks as he returned to practice and knew — after months of fear and fight in his battle with bone cancer — he was home.Lindblom turned 24 on Saturday and a day later he received a rousing applause from the Flyers hours before they prepared for their playoff game against Montreal.“Now I’m here and I’m happier than ever,” Lindblom said Sunday.A native of Gavle, Sweden, Lindblom was off to a career season when he diagnosed in December with Ewing’s sarcoma, a tumor that grows in the bones or in the tissue around bones.
He completed radiation treatments July 2 and weeks later signed a $9 million, three-year contract extension.Lindblom said there was no timetable for a potential return to.