Saskatoon students drop the puck with NHL legends

Imagine being successful precocious schoolhouse and walking into the gym for a crippled of level hockey, lone to look disconnected against an NHL legend.

That’s however students astatine E.D. Feehan Catholic High School were spending their morning, playing the crippled with immoderate of hockey’s greatest.

Grade 9 students and champion friends Eli Rowan and Cash Thorstensen took to the level to quadrate disconnected against the likes of Chris Chelios, Al MacInnis and Chris Pronger.

Brett Hull, Joey Kocur, and Tony Twist besides joined successful connected the fun.

“It’s truthful surreal, you know?” said Rowan. “It’s amusive playing with immoderate of my favourite NHL players too.”

“It’s conscionable benignant of astonishing conscionable seeing them and knowing that they utilized to beryllium super, ace good,” added Thorstensen.

The erstwhile hockey superstars were successful Saskatoon for the 63rd yearly Kinsmen Sports Celebrity Dinner, successful enactment of younker hockey and sports passim the city.

“We effort and enactment the kids that whitethorn not person the accidental themselves oregon their families mightiness not beryllium capable to play otherwise,” said meal president Morgan Drewsky. “So our extremity is to springiness backmost to those kids that possibly request the opportunity.”

The level hockey crippled reminding three-time Stanley Cup champion Chelios of erstwhile helium utilized to deed the pavement for immoderate thoroughfare hockey erstwhile helium was younger.

“Quite honestly, I look astir and nothing’s changed since I was a kid. It’s the integrative hockey sticks and this is fundamentally wherever it started for each of us,” Chelios said. “There’s thing amended than level hockey, playing this. It’s exciting.”

The sentiment is shared by Hall of Fame defenceman MacInnis, who said it’s peculiar for the NHLers too, and hopes to animate the adjacent procreation of hockey stars and assemblage leaders.

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“We looked up to the players that we watched erstwhile we were younger and to get to conscionable them oregon to get an autograph was truthful peculiar and present we’re successful a presumption to assistance out,” MacInnis said.

“We’re present for the close reasons conscionable to assistance retired successful immoderate mode we can.”

Even with each the prima power, it was the students that packed retired the gym who are the biggest winners.

“It’s going to beryllium successful my caput and memory,” Rowan said. “It’s going to beryllium 1 of the [most fun] times ever.”