Biographical piece on Willie O’Ree NHL’s first Black Player. Amazing life story and hockey career as willie lost sight in one eye due to a receiving a puck to the eye, willie continued to play blind

Jari Kurri scoring his 600th NHL goal against the Los Angeles Kings

The Courage Carolina Project – 2011 NHL All-Star Week – Raleigh, North Carolina. Accessible Media Inc

Hockey Night In Canada’s Inside Hockey – Interview with the legendary Herbert Carnegie, who was one of the greatest hockey players. However, he was denied the opportunity to play in the NHL because he was black

Montreal hosted the first Courage Canada Learn to Skate program in the province of Quebec. There were 19 visually impaired children from the Fondation des Aveugles du Quebec in attendance

The Calgary Seeing Ice Dogs, a blind hockey team that’s scoring goals on and off the Ice

The Toronto Ice Owls – 2011 – The Ice owls Hockey team is made up of low vision, blind, and deaf-blind players

Christopher Duffley, 9, wows the crowd at the High School State Hockey Championships when he sang the national anthem

In life he was known as an irascible old man who created lots of controversy, and even in death his kids hated him for giving away most of his millions to charity. He dared to defy NHL rules, greatly angered league officials, taunted the media, and terrorized the Maple Leafs players. Yet there was another side to Harold Ballard that would have surprised almost all of us. It was a very hidden side of Uncle Harold who took a deep interest in a very special hockey team. Harold Ballard allowed this team to play at the Gardens on several occasions. He fulfilled the dreams of many of this team’s players who normally would never have been able to play at the Gardens. They savoured every minute of being able to skate, handle the puck, and bang into the Gardens Boards. It did not matter to them if they were not able to see the ice with its blue and red lines, and the goal posts, crossbars, and nets. Yes, the Ice Owls are a team made up of mostly totally blind and visually impaired players. There are only four sighted players on the team, and there is even one Female player. She is both visually impaired and hard of hearing. The team is made up of 13 guys and 1 girl. The youngest is 15, and the oldest is 71. For the past 29 years, the Ice Owls have been playing ice hockey. They were formed by two MTHL Coaches who wanted to teach blind and visually impaired persons how to play ice hockey. During this time the Ice Owls team has done much to change the lives of many of their players. They are heavily involved in playing benefits games, and they travel to other cities and countries to spread the word that blind and visually impaired persons can play ice hockey. This team wants to help make a difference to those who are blind and visually impaired. They want to show the sighted world that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it. They are spreading the word both on and off the ice. Their Captain Eddy Parenteau wants to use the Internet to attract more players and sponsors, and their goalie Mario Ros wants persons to come out and give it a try

This is a promotional video I made for the Vancouver Eclipse Blind Hockey Team

This was clip was featured in an episode of Abstrakt Videos in 2008…here it is in its entirety.
Hoy Sinsation The Blind Air Hockey MASTAAAAA

Robbed of much of her sight, Fryeburg Academy’s Christina DiPietro, 17, has lost none of her determination to do what she loves

Portsmouth’s Travis Nevins isn’t letting his impairment keep him off the ice

Seven years ago Mark DeMontis learnt that he had developed a condition that left him legally blind and unable to pursue his dream of playing professional hockey. But despite his condition, he didn’t let his passion for the game die. In fact, he decided to bring that passion to others by starting Courage Canada, an organization that gives visually impaired kids the opportunity to learn to ice skate and play hockey. So when Mark’s best friend Cameron Williams heard about the grant from Tetley Green Tea, he knew exactly who he was going to nominate

Mark DeMontis, Playing Hockey Blind

Courage Canada and North Carolina State Blind Hockey Puck Project with College of Textile Engineering – Accessible Media Inc

Courage Canada National Blind Hockey Tournament – 2011 – Montreal

Finger Ice Hockey – Play against the computer or against your friends. Choose between more than 112 countries to play with. The game has two modes

2006 National Finger Hockey League(NFHL)Championship Game 3 and 4. Epic battle between Michael Barife’s hand and Justin Nguyen’s hand. Filmed at Michael’s House sometime during 2006. Postgame interviews are also included

Finger Hockey Instructional Video using a coin

Clerks is a 1994 American comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O’Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances. This is a scene from a Roof Top Ball Hockey game

Alfa Romeo UK put the Alfa Giulietta through its paces at Coventry Skydome ice rink. The mission set was to achieve the near impossible — getting a car to play ice hockey. The stunt, featuring the advanced Vehicle Dynamic Control of the Alfa D.N.A. system, driven by stunt driver Paul Swift , was captured using only iPhone technology, taking on Team Blaze star, David Phillips, in a challenge of icy skill and pinpoint control

Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sébastien Buemi drives the Red Bull Racing running showcar in an exclusive winter session on Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and an incredible ice run on the frozen waters of northern Quebec, and drives through a Pond Hockey game. The car, a 10 cylinder, Cosworth-powered STR1, was fitted with a one-of-a-kind set of Bridgestone Potenza F1 snow tyres and featured 420 tungsten studs on each of the front and 588 studs on each of the rear tyres, each one embedded in an aluminium casing

Hockey’s Different – Enterprise Rent-a-Car

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