One Roof Foundation, Kraken and official team partner Brooks join for ball hockey and running clinics with goalie Joey Daccord, pro runner Valery Tobias. Big bonus: Girls and boys issued new Brooks shoes.
By Bob Condor /@bybobcondor /nhl.com/kraken
12:55 PM
When Kraken colleague Andrew Bloom asked kids attending Saturday’s combined ball hockey and Brooks running clinics whether they’d ever played hockey, most answered that, yes, they had in physical education classes at school. Bloom smiled about that as the day’s action unfolded at the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the city’s Central District neighborhood.
“I didn’t hear that two years ago,” he said.
Bloom has been an integral leader in donating ball hockey equipment to local schools and parks programs as manager of social impact and youth access for the Kraken and its One Roof Foundation philanthropic arm. ORF has donated more than 350 ball hockey kits (sticks, balls, nets, and other gear) in the Pacific Northwest community.
Still, there was at least one outlier among all the hockey-knowledgeable youngsters at Saturday’s event.