Senators' David Perron provides very scary details regarding the health of his newborn baby

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Daniel Lucente
November 20, 2024 (3:39 PM)

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David Perron of the Senators has recently opened up to fans about the full details that his newborn baby went through in terms of the health scare.

David Perron is back with the Ottawa Senators after what had been a tough personal time. The 36-year-old forward missed 11 games after taking a leave of absence on Oct. 21, 2024, because of a serious health issue involving his newborn daughter, Elizabeth. Perron returned for a Nov. 16 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-0.

Elizabeth was born on the 27th of October and had been diagnosed with congenital pulmonary airway malformation, a rare condition wherein the child comes with a mass on her right lung.

Her treatment included an in-utero procedure with further intervention after her birth. Though there has been improvement in her health, Perron definitely admitted that her full recovery road has yet to be covered.

"We're not fully, fully out of the woods, but we're getting there," he said (via NHL.com). «There [were] some couple crazy moments that maybe you think they're going to have to take the whole lung out, you don't know."

- David Perron

It was more of an emotional situation for Perron, who had just signed a two-year deal with Ottawa worth $8 million but, with this deal came much stress and pressure on him and his wife, Vanessa, to work out family needs with professional commitments.

In the meantime, the Perron family has only had hope and perseverance to see them through. Slowly improving, their fourth child Elizabeth, who she called the "little miracle", also received thanks from Vanessa in an emotional post online for her daughter's fight.

With Elizabeth out of immediate danger and on the road to recovery, Perron has started to ease his way back into hockey.

Extremely grateful for the support of the Senators' organization, teammates, and fans, Perron wanted to stress to one and all how important getting through the toughest of times was.

Now back on the ice, Perron's work gets his rhythm going once more to help the Senators. He did, however, admit that coming back from that amount of time was hard, but promised his presence would be felt both as a player and a leader.

The Senators are sitting at 8-9-1, and Perron's experience and leadership are going to be huge moving forward into the stretch of trying to right the ship this season.