A One Roof Foundation initiative used the recent partnership between the Kraken and Brooks Running to stage a free ball hockey and running clinic to 100 children at the Tukwila Community Center
By Geoff Baker / @GeoffBakerNHL/ nhl.com/kraken
November 26, 2024
Josi Laufman stared out at the lines of children taking their turn stickhandling a ball towards a pop-up hockey net, many of them doing so for the first time.
The youth programming lead at the Tukwila Community Center knows the area isn’t exactly a hockey hotbed. But seeing about 100 elementary and middle school children take part in a free Kraken Ball Hockey/Brooks Running Clinic, mingling with hockey sticks and new running shoes on a Saturday afternoon, was all she was really focused on.