Dominic Moore’s charity a smashing success

Smashfest is what you get when you bring two of the world's greatest and most competitive sports together to battle cancer. Returning Leaf Dominic Moore’s ping-pong contest has been a smashing success.

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Dominic Moore’s charity a smashing success
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Regardless of how you feel about the Toronto Maple Leafs bringing Dominic Moore back into the fold, there's nothing you can take away from the veteran forward's charity work.

Smashfest is in its sixth year, having been started in 2012.

It may be a little known fact that table tennis is a fairly ubiquitous dressing room activity across the NHL, so one day Moore had the idea to showcase NHL stars little-known talents for public consumption and charitable causes. It's been a resounding success.


Smashfest VI is being held today, Thursday July 20th, at Steam Whistle Brewery in downtown Toronto. Featuring more than 20 NHL talents and will add to the $500,000 already raised by Smashfest since 2012.


Moore started the event in 2012 as a way to help his brother, Steve Moore, after he had his career ended by a vicious hit from Tod Bertuzzi. Less than a year later, Moore left the San Jose Sharks during the playoffs to be with his ailing wife, who would eventually succumb to fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare form of cancer, on Jan. 7, 2013, passing away at the age of 32.

Moore started the Katie Moore Foundation in her honor with the goal of raising funds for rare cancer research.