The Good Old Hockey Game...and Team!

"Oh! The good old hockey game, it's the best game you can name..and the best game you can name, is the good old hockey game."...singer Stompin Tom Connors

This evening will be Hockey night in Canada (and USA)!!!  Here's the music to get you in the hockey mood, of course, it's the original theme:

While I'm not a huge hockey fan, it is exciting that we have a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup Finals and I have been watching the games this week. Go Vancouver!!...and good luck to Boston too! 

While we're in the hockey spirit, I would like to draw your attention to a very special hockey team, the Innisfil Snowdogs.  The Innisfil Snowdogs is a hockey team founded 3 years ago by the parents of a child with special needs, and is affiliated with Special Hockey International for people with special needs and disabilities.  To date they have 26 players ranging in ages from 5-30 years of age.

What this family has done is so incredibly sweet.  They have created an opportunity for kids to participate and be part of a team, when there isn't a place for them in a mainstream hockey program.  They have provided an opportunity to shine in front of their parents, have fun, and feel safe and accepted, no matter what their disability.

The Innisfil Snowdogs are currently in a "very close" race to win an exciting contest, "The Keg Steakhouse $25,000 grant online contest".  Winning this contest will go a long way toward fulfilling their fundraising dream of entering a tournament in Boston (hey Boston again, that's cool!), where they will compete against other teams from Canada and around the world (how exciting!!!), and the prize money will be used toward uniforms, transportation and funding equipment for those in need.  This is an experience that they will remember for a lifetime, and will certainly help develop their hockey as well as social skills.

This is such a worthwhile project and I wish them the best of luck in winning.  If you would like to read more details about the contest and about the Innisfil Snowdogs, I'll give you a link to it, where you can vote vote vote (you can vote once a day until June 14).  Here's the link to the Innisfil Snowdogs Project page - Go Snowdogs!!!!

http://www.thekegthanksamillion.com/en/phase2/projects/show/p/19

Let's end the week with a bit of nostalgia, hopefully this great hockey tune will bring back some old memories.  It sure did for me as country singer "Stompin Tom Connors" was one of my father's favourites.  Here is the Hockey Song (the Good Old Hockey Game) - Enjoy!!

Cheers,

Linda