Youth Hockey Player Blogs About his Passion - Ice Hockey
OK, so this was a really BIG moment for me! I just finished receiving my Give Back Award from Kristy, Stacy & Gina and they told me that I could drop the puck during the NHL Alumni vs Coaches game and sit on the bench with the NHL players.
Getting to see Coach Chaffee, Coach Whyte & Coach Kastelic in action was really cool. The NHL Alumni players still have a lot of game left in them and they were so awesome to hang out with. Tyson Nash is a great skater!
It is a night I will never forget!
It was a great way to end the 2009-10 Squirt A season, by winning the State Championship Title!!
Murph & Coach Ed Kastelic
At the end of March, the Phoenix Polar Bears played the Jr. Coyotes in the Championship game of the Grand Canyon State Games and won 6-2. It was another amazing victory!
My Squirt A team finished the season undefeated in league games with a record of 19-0.
I had a great season with awesome teammates and an awesome Coach! Coach Ed Kastelic taught me a lot this year, and it was an honor to play for him.
It was a perfect season and I will never forget it!
This weekend the President’s Day Invitational Hockey Tournament begins. The Polar Bear Squirt A Team will be playing all of our games at Polar Ice in Chandler. We have some great teams coming in from California, Georgia and Vancouver, BC in the Squirt A Division.
Be sure to check out the Master Schedule of games going on at rinks around AZ. Please come out and join in the fun and support youth hockey in Arizona!
Phoenix Polar Bears Squirt A Game Schedule:
Friday @ 5:20pm vs Bay Harbor Red Wings
Saturday @ 11:10am vs Atlanta Fire
Sunday @ 6am vs Valencia Express
Semi-final games will be Sunday at 3:30 & 3:50pm
Consolation game will be Monday at 8am
Championship will be Monday at 9:30!
Nothing beats scoring the first goal of the game for the Phoenix Polar Bears at Jobing.com Arena; except for hearing my name announced in the Phoenix Coyotes House! It was my first goal at Jobing.com and it was another highlight to my year!!
The Coyotes had just won their game the night before, their energy was still in the building! Our game against the IE Runners ended in a 5-5 tie.
A BIG thanks goes out to USA Hockey for giving us the opportunity to celebrate Hockey Across America! Thanks also to my teammate Jack for the perfect pass and to my Coach (Ed Kastelic), who loves the game of hockey and coaching it! Hockey Brings us together!
This past weekend the Phoenix Polar Bear Squirt A team showed up BIG in Colorado for the MLK Tournament in Arvada, CO. Despite all the obstacles we faced, we were undefeated in 5 all games!
I missed my scheduled flight home because we made it to the Championship Game!! It was well worth it … the trophy was AWESOME and victory is sweet!
Thank you to the awesome lady at Southwest Airlines that got me on the next flight home to Phoenix, just because I was wearing a hat with hockey sticks on it! HOCKEY ROCKS!
After hockey practice tonight; picked up some Pei Wei, the fortune in my cookie read: You will be traveling to distant lands for business purposes. It’s true, I am heading to Colorado, that is … kind of a distant land and my
business is HOCKEY!
I will land in Denver around 10:30 am on Friday and head straight for the Ice Center at the Promenade for a team practice. Our first game is Saturday morning at 7:00am, shortly after there will be a team pin trading ceremony, and then I am heading to the Pepsi Center where the Colorado Avalanche take on the New Jersey Devils. Look for me on TV, I am going to wear my Phoenix Coyotes Jersey to the game!!! The Phoenix Polar Bears play two more games on Sunday and we will finish things up on Monday.
The Phoenix Polar Bears Squirt A team is looking to bring home the banner from the MLK Hockey Tournament in Arvada, CO.
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