The Island next month will officially become a new home to The Great Blizzards, an all-ages special needs ice hockey team with three other locations in Massachusetts.
Vineyard resident Casey O'Brien was drafted third overall last month in the Professional Women's Hockey League Entry Draft.
Born and raised on the Vineyard, Nick Kent has trotted the globe to play hockey and now works for the Tampa Bay Lightning. But he still comes back every summer to teach the games he loves to Island kids.
The NHL spared no expense making a documentary short on the Vineyard high school boys hockey team, shipping over an entire five-person camera crew in the run-up to its season opener against off-Island rival Whitman-Hanson.
Some families go to church on Christmas. The Coogans play hockey. “I don’t remember when we started,” Will Coogan said.
When Gene Townes slid a nifty pass to land the puck right on the stick of Vicky Thurber and she flipped it into the net, the combined age of the goal scoring duo was 134 years.