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the festival is exciting.
“This is everyone’s favorite
by far,” said Christine Hupkovich,
executive director
of the Mighty Penguins.
“It’s the most competitive
tournament and to be in
Pittsburgh this year is such
a great experience. Everyone
will be able to play in front
of their friends and family.”
Pittsburgh has 11 teams
for disabled, special-needs
and lower socio-economic
youth and adults, including
the Mighty Penguins, Pittsburgh
Penguins Blind Hockey
Team and the Pittsburgh
Warriors, a team comprising
injured and disabled U.S.
military veterans.
The first weekend of the
festival will host all five divisions
other than sled, then
the second weekend will see
56 adult and 32 youth sled
hockey teams descend on
the city.
The most competitive of
the divisions will feature
members of the U.S. national
sled hockey team competing
against one another on
their respective club teams.
The U.S. national team is
the defending Paralympic
and world championship
gold medalist.
“The younger kids definitely
look up to the national
team players,” Hupkovich
said. “It’s creating their
goals because they see how
they play and they want to
be able to do that themselves.”
For many years when the
festival would come to a
city, O’Connor said he’d
run into a number of people
who didn’t know what
disabled hockey was. Now
that’s not so much the case.
People recognize sled hockey
in particular a lot more,
he said, and the tournament
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