June 6, 2024

The Ride To The Rink - The Benefits Of Ball Hockey With Sheri Hudspeth of the Vegas Golden Knights

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Hello, hockey skaters and goalies around the world! Welcome back to another edition of The Ride to the Rink. This is Lee Elias with you today, and we have a special guest from the Vegas Golden Knights, Sheri Hudspeth. Sheri is the Director of Development for Youth Hockey and Fan Engagement, and she joins us to discuss the importance and benefits of ball hockey.

Sheri emphasizes that ball hockey is a fantastic way for ice hockey players to improve their skills at home. It’s also a great social activity, perfect for making friends and building community. For kids who enjoy hockey but aren’t great skaters, ball hockey provides a wonderful alternative to still enjoy the game. Plus, it’s excellent exercise!

Quotes:

•“Ball hockey is a great way to work on your skills at home. You can work on stick handling, shooting, and passing, which will all translate to the ice.” - Sheri Hudspeth

•“It’s a very low cost to get into the game. All you need are some shoes, a stick, a ball, and maybe a net. Just some gym clothes, and you can start playing right away.” - Sheri Hudspeth

•“Ball hockey is a great way to make friends, especially if you live in a neighborhood with a lot of kids. You can get a game going in the street, park, or gym.” - Sheri Hudspeth

We want to give a huge thanks to Sheri for taking part in this week’s Ride to the Rink. Remember, you can listen to all of the Ride to the Rink episodes at Our Kids Play Hockey. For longer episodes of Our Kids Play Hockey, The Ride to the Rink, Our Kids Play Goalie, and more, visit our website.

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Hello hockey skaters and goalies around the world, welcome back to another edition of the Ride to the Ring.

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This is Lee Elias with you today.

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We've got a special guest with us today from the Vegas Golden Knights, sherry Hudspeth, who is the Director of Development of Youth Hockey and Fan Engagement again with the Vegas Golden Knights, and she wants to talk to you for a few minutes about the importance of ball hockey and getting outside to play the game as much as you play it inside.

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Here we go.

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Sherry Hudspeth.

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Here we're talking about the benefits of ball hockey today.

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So ball hockey we call it here in Vegas, some people call it street hockey Back home.

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We called it road hockey in Canada.

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But a lot of benefits to playing ball hockey if you are in an ice hockey, if you're an ice hockey player already.

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Ball hockey is a great way to work on your skills at home.

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You can work on stick handling, shooting, passing at home, and that those kind of skills are going to translate to the ice.

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The nice thing about ball hockey too it's a low cost to get into playing.

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All you you need to have is some shoes, a stick, a ball, possibly a net but maybe your friends have a net but just very low cost to get into the game.

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So some gym clothes and you can get playing right away.

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Very good socially too.

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A great way to make friends, especially like if you're in a neighborhood where that has a lot of kids, is uh, you can maybe just go knock on some doors or, uh, meet some kids in your neighborhood, go down to the basketball court, go down to a rec center, a park and then get a little game going in the street.

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So or in the street or in the park or in the gym.

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So great social aspect to playing ball hockey.

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Um, another thing about ball hockey, too, is a lot of kids like hockey and, uh, they might not have skating proficiency.

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Obviously about ball hockey, too, is a lot of kids like hockey and they might not have skating proficiency.

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Obviously, with ball hockey you don't need skating proficiency.

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So if you do enjoy the game, you want to get into the game, but maybe you don't have access to ice or you're not a good skater.

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There's a lot of leagues, a lot of leagues that you can get into and play ball hockey in a rec center, in a league, without having ice or learning how to skate.

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So that's cool, and then it's also very good exercise.

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It's great exercise to get out, run around, play with your friends good aerobic activity where you can play in your neighborhood.

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And yeah.

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I want to give Sherry a huge thanks for taking part in this week's ride to the rink.

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Remember, you can hear all of the ride of the rinks over at ourkidsplayhockeycom or, if you want to listen to longer episodes of our kids play hockey, the ride to the rink, our kids play goalie and everything else that we do, our kids play hockey is the place to do that.

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Also, if you the young ones listening have a question for us, you can email us at team at Our Kids Play Hockey.

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You can put it in a note, you can send audio over or send it over to us on our social media pages.

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We love to hear from you and to answer your questions here on the Ride to the Ring, but that's going to do it for this week.

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My friends, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the game and remember to always skate on.