| On Sunday, December 19, local professional hockey players completed against the St. Paul Police, the MN National Guard and Governor Tim Pawlenty's Team Minnesota. Proceeds from the games, silent auction, and raffles went to the Herb Brooks Foundation, MN Military Family Foundation and The Shjon Podein Children's Foundation. Mom and I headed to Mariucci Arena for our one and only chance this year to see NHL players play hockey. Players who are from Minnesota, live in Minnesota, or who are training in Minnesota during the lockout were involved. It was so great to see Darby Hendrickson skating in Minnesota again! |
| Hockey Heroes for American Heroes NHL Players and local teams Mariucci Arena, U of M, Minneapolis December 19, 2004 |
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| Hockey Heros (in black) with the St. Paul Police team (in white). |
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| Gov. Pawlenty and Darby Hendrickson take the first ceremonial puck drop from Herb Brook's daughter and grandchildren. |
| Shjon Podein takes another ceremonial puck drop from a member of Team25's adaptive floor hockey team. |
| Darby Hendrickson, Filip Kuba, and Andrew Brunette played for the hockey heros. They wore #33 on their sleeves in memory of Sergei Zholtok, former #33 for the MN Wild, who died earlier this fall. |
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| NHLers who played: Andrew Brunette, Filip Kuba, Chris McAlpine, Shjon Podein, Eric Rasmussen, Jordon Leopold, Danny Hinote, Brad Defauw, Richard Park, Darby Hendrickson, Brian Rolston, and Mark Parrish. Phil Housley also played, but for Team Minnesota. U of M goalie coach Robb Stauber filled in when Roli got sick. Others scheduled to play or who were at the arena: Dwayne Roloson, Trent Klatt, Willie Mitchell. |