Big event for deaf hockey players

[Miss-Delectable]

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/04/12/1531123-sun.html

Hockey players from across Canada converging on Calgary early next month for a championship tournament have two things in common -- they're all deaf and they all want to win.

The deaf hockey players will be in Calgary May 4-6 to compete for a spot on the 2007 Canadian Men's Hockey Team for the 2007 Deaflympics.

The two-day round-robin tournament pitting teams from across the land will be watched by scouts who will build Team Canada for the Deaflympics set for February in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Like their Winter Olympic peers, Team Canada Deaflympic players are nearly unstoppable.

The team brought home back-to-back gold medals in 1999 and 2003. They're looking for a three-peat.

Calgary's Canadian Deaf Ice Hockey Championships is slated to go May 5-6 at the Centennial Arena, 2390 47 Ave. S.W.

More on the tournament is online at www.cdihc2006.ca

 

[GoldenLeaf74]

it is cool, wish I can join but too bad I have a disabitly called Cerebral Palsy. That's suck.

 

[ayala920]

On a related note, try-outs for the USA Deaflympics team are coming up in June!!!

 

[coloravalanche]

dang it...wish i could join and play!!! but im female.... ha!

where will they be playing at? will they be on tv? just curious..

 

[ayala920]

dang it...wish i could join and play!!! but im female.... ha!

where will they be playing at? will they be on tv? just curious..

So what? Our hockey camp has several female players, a couple of whom are trying out for the Olympic team.

The 2007 Winter Deaflympics are actually being hosted in the United States this time, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2003 they were in Sweeden.

 

[coloravalanche]

So what? Our hockey camp has several female players, a couple of whom are trying out for the Olympic team.

The 2007 Winter Deaflympics are actually being hosted in the United States this time, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2003 they were in Sweeden.

oh i thought its only for men,,, well, i never played hockey in my life but i doubt that they will let me play since im not expert player...i doubt i could go since i dont have alot of money to travel...