GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Troy Green jokes about how, at first, he didn't want to like Adam Fox .

As Green says, he was simply following the unwritten big brother code, which to him meant he wasn't supposed to like anybody who became romantically involved with his younger sister, Tate, as Fox was when the two were at Harvard University.

"I'm extremely protective of her," Green told NHL.com, "and it was really hard to not like Adam."

It seems impossible now.

Not only are Fox and Tate married and raising a baby girl, Greer Rose, who was born in March, the New York Rangers defenseman has joined in the Green family's personal fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the incurable nervous system disease known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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