This is Part 2 of Saturday's photos - includes Select Series: USA vs Canada East, Goaltender Clinic, Children's Division Game 3 and Youth Division Game 3.
Canada played the United States during
the 2019 Canadian National Blind Hockey Tournament
at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (former
Maple Leaf Gardens).
If you haven't seen it, blind ice hockey is amazing.
All players are legally blind, with many having zero vision (including
all goaltenders). The top level teams (Canada West,
Canada East and the United States)
perform at a pace which has to be seen to be believed.
The speed and intensity are again, amazing.
There are also children, youth and low vision divisions
which are equally remarkable.
They use a larger puck (with ball bearings for noise),
a shorter net (puck is silent in the air), a one pass rule after
crossing the blue line before trying to score (to give
the goaltenders more info) and a mix of vision levels
on ice at one time to keep
the teams even (black helmets = under 10%, white = under 5%, red = 0%).
I shot both Friday and Saturday (i was unable
to attend the final day Sunday - Canada West won Gold in overtime).
For full official results and more info, please see
Canadian Blind Hockey
,
Blind Ice Hockey
,
CNIB
,
CNIB Guide Dogs
,
Ice Owls
and
AMI
.
*** NOTE - ALL BLIND ICE HOCKEY PHOTOS ARE NOT FOR SALE.***
Here are 2000 SATURDAY PART 2 of 2 photos (see also Friday and Sat Part 1).
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