Canada's First Sledge Hockey Wedding

A teammate got married on the ICE with a pick up game following!  Come take a look at www.sheo.ca/events.html.

Sledge Hockey Drills

Back again for a new season.  Hopefully more posts this year than last.  I'm taking a web development course, since I've been unsuccessful in finding work doing embedded software development (dang economy).  I gave my club's web-site a nice face lift and wrote a flash animation of a standard sledge hockey drill.  Please visit www.sheo.ca/drills.html. to have a look!

I was invited to play with the Sledge Hammers (National Sledge Hockey League) against Team Ontario. What an awesome time I had playing against and with with these very skilled players. That's me going for the puck against Donovan Snell (Matt Turcotte in the background) in a photo from the Ottawa Citizen web-site. I qualified for the Sledge Hammers this year but in these economic times (and currently without a job and many family responsibilities) I could not afford to participate. Maybe next year, if I'm still fast enough. I'd really like to be part of that before time catches up to me :). My son Jeremy has taken the year off from sledge hockey to pursue power lifting (school and part-time employment). Despite cerebral palsy that most severely effects his right leg, he's hoisting over 500 lbs in a dead lift in the 100 Kg class and holds records for his age and weight class in the Canadian Federation of Power Lifting! Me, I play some pickup able bodied hockey but I can't let go of sledge hockey.