The Kraken and their One Roof Foundation last week staged a ball hockey skills clinic and games at the fifth annual Pro Sports Sampling Camp, run by the King County Play Equity Coalition and the city’s pro teams to expose youngsters to a broad variety of sports.
By Geoff Baker /@geoffbakernhl / nhl.com/kraken
July 29, 2025
Tyler Deloach smiled as she watched a group of 7-year-olds chaotically trying their hand at handling hockey sticks.
Several were doing so for the first time last week at a makeshift indoor ball hockey clinic set up by the Kraken at the Rainier Beach Community Center, chaotically chasing a wiffle ball and whacking away at it with limited structure to their play. But the excited squeals and laughter erupting whenever a stick connected with the ball and sent it soaring into the net was all Deloach needed to hear.
As the Kraken’s senior manager for fan development, Deloach was helping as the team and its One Roof Foundation philanthropic arm staged a ball hockey clinic at the fifth annual Pro Sports Sampling Camp, presented by the King County Play Equity Coalition in partnership with our city’s professional sports squads.