Welcome back, Tony Chesrow! In this episode we discuss our plans for Twitch - yes we have a Twitch.TV channel - Tony's recovery from back-to-back surgeries, and how he has taken his blind hockey skills directly into being a Top 10 NHL24 XBOX player worldwide!

Our first guest of the new season is Canada's "Minister of Defense", Tristian Lindberg! We discuss his insight about what it's like to grow up playing hockey at a high level - then to transition into blind hockey -, how he got his chance to wear the national team jersey, and how he would get someone to try blind hockey!

The boys have wild deja vu in realizing they owe you a Tony update podcast. Background about the shortened Season 8 as well as the crazy schedule The Dented Puck has had over the summer months.

As is the usual, the attempt was to record the episode before we left on Sunday, but that never happens. It made it a much more important episode when we found out both Mark DeMontis, who we had been playing with all weekend, and Kelsey McGuire were BOTH nominated for the Willie O'Ree Community Hero award!

We had to have Kelsey on to help promote her campaign of American voters to add to our recap of our weekend in Calgary!

For those in the US, please vote for Kelsey and those in Canada, please vote for Mark. DAILY

https://www.nhl.com/community/willie-oree/willie-oree-community-hero-award

What an awesome experience!

(For everyone but Drew)

We were so lucky to be able to highlight international blind hockey live at the American Dream Mall in front of thousands of hockey fans as we hosted a live Dented Puck episode that ended up being guest hosted like a beast by Blake Steinecke.

We chatted with Jukka Pulkkiinen from Finland and Nathan Tree from the United Kingdom.

For more information about blind hockey, please visit: http://www.thedentedpuck.com

To order a Conway + Banks bag through the Dented Puck Group: https://forms.gle/BmiXCrxzYHnuXB4q8

We were lucky to have Liam O’Callaghan on the podcast this week to give us a little of his back story prior to his first International Blind Hockey Series.

Liam explains his journey through sight loss and and quite a varied hockey background that definitely gives us a very Morgan moment.

For more information on blind hockey, please visit http://www.thedentedpuck.com

To watch the 2024 International Blind Hockey Series

https://www.youtube.com/@usblindhockeyteam

After a long, active, break, we are back! The releases of this episode was scheduled for 3/22, but technical difficulties pushed us back a week!

We sat down with USA Blind Hockey Team member Nick Kalyan before the break and discussed growing up in hockey and a possible youth rivalry with a current teammate. We also discuss how Nick got back into hockey and why Josh is mega jealous of Nick's job.

For more information about blind hockey, please check out our website: http://www.thedentedpuck.com

"One of the greatest hockey games I've ever been a part of..."

is how one of our hosts described the weekend in Chicago in November, and not for the reason you would expect. Take a trip back to Fifth Third Arena, in Chicago with us as we recap all three divisions of blind hockey action during the 2023 USA Hockey Blind Hockey Classic.

Compilation video of "the game" will be posted on Youtube shortly.