The Dented Puck - A Blind Hockey Podcast

Blind Hockey is an adaptive sport for the blind and visually impaired, which allows all players to use their remaining usable vision besides the goalies.   The sport is played on ice with typical ice hockey rules, except those to keep our goalies safe.  We also don't check, for obvious reasons.    Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? Help us grow the game, sh...

2026 Hendrickson Festival Preview As we dive into during the episode, so much good goes into putting on this disabled hockey festival from such a specific group of people. The Hendrickson Foundation is truly the intersection of the Hockey Community and Minnesota Nice. We welcomed Melissa Hadfield, President of Minnesota Blind Hockey, as well as Brady Hadfield, pretty much the president of everythi...

Welcome back to the bench for another episode of The Dented Puck Podcast ! The regular season is in the rearview mirror, and the most grueling tournament in sports has finally arrived. In this episode, we dive headfirst into the madness of the NHL Playoffs. The ice might be melting, but the action is just heating up. We’re breaking down the biggest hits, the most unbelievable saves, and the shocki...

One of the highlights of our Try Blind Hockey event in Salt Lake City was the impressively tall skater who was almost ice dancing with his buddies. Preston has been an athlete for a long time, but like many in the visually impaired community, didn't know there was a version of hockey for him. Join us as Tony leads our conversation with Preston, who showed up to our skate in a Mammoth jersey and mo...

Bringing you our first "instigator" episode of the season. This episode will focus on the Try Blind Hockey event in Utah and the recent stops on Craig Fitzpatrick's book tour. Our instigator episodes are meant to hit a quick topic to introduce an athlete, advocate, blind sport, blind ability, etc. We will be hosting our 17 minute instigator series in between monthly podcasts this season. Support T...

The Boys Are Back! All four of the guys hop on our Season Kickoff episode and reunite on Zoom on New Year's Eve to discuss the holiday season in blind hockey and our recent Blind Hockey Classic in Massachusetts! join Us on the Pod! We would LOVE to highlight members of the visually impaired and hockey community on our podcast! We will be hosting "Instigator" Episodes, a short 17 minute episode whe...

What Salmaan wants, Salmaan gets! Our buddy Salmaan made the trip from Chi-Town to Portland, Maine to celebrate disabled hockey in the what Josh likes to call "more or less Canada." The Witches Brew, hosted by Maine Unified Hockey and The Maine Highlanders is a celebration of hockey players of all abilities and we are proud to send a group of players every year. Next year come join us! Support The...

Welcome Back We are also welcoming back Tony for good as a regular host and changing out the format a little! We will be dropping an episode the first Wednesday of every month, followed by a "Third Man In" 17 minute quick episode on a blind or hockey adjacent topic mid-month! Tony hops back onto the show and we catch up with his massive project to grow ActuallyBlindGaming on Twitch and our Blind G...

We are LIVE from Colorado! For the first time and certainly not the last, we hosted a live recording on-location! We participated in yet another awesome Dawg Bowl, hosted by Dawn Nation, and we got to meet up with one of our newer members to the Dented Pucks roster, Andrew Keenan! Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? Help us grow the game, share more incredib...

We FINALLY HAD Emma on again, instead of to begin her internship with us, to close it out! Emma joined Josh and Dirk in Park City, Utah at the National Ability Center for Move United's Disabled Sports Education Conference . We were so blessed to have Emma as our intern during the Spring semester and excited to have her stay on as our Outreach Coordinator. Please don't forget to register for the Wi...

Dirk and Josh host Team USA Rookie and Toronto native Alex Kapasouris, as we discuss the upcoming International Blind Hockey Series in Montreal. Catch all the games this weekend on the Canadian Blind Hockey YouTube Channel Friday 4:00pm EST Saturday 3:00pm EST Sunday 10:00am EST For more information on The Dented Puck Foundation and Blind Hockey, please visit The Dented Puck Website. Support The D...

The group split in three in late February to showcase blind hockey in Rockford, Illinois, St. Louis, and the Boston area. Coming together to discuss our awesome weekend via a roundtable, listen for some incredible stories and examples from each event showing the impact and growth of our sport. Please consisder supporting this year's Windy City Showdown please use our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/9b...

When Dirk and Josh went to a camp held by Alex Kapasouris in Connecticut, we got to skate with "French Canadian Alex" as he explained. We had promised to have him on the podcast since we were wearing shorts. But, what better way to truly kick off season 10 than with possibly the greatest double shock of an episode. For those interested in joining the Dented Puck email list to be aware of upcoming...

Welcome Back Puckers! After a much needed break, we are back to kick off a new version of the podcast and a new schedule. This week we brought back Adam and Tony to discuss their roles in both The Dented Pucks Showcase Team and Actually Blind Gaming. Getting everyone back together after a break turned out about as hilarious as it is informative. For more information about blind hockey,. please vis...

Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? Help us grow the game, share more incredible stories, and support the adaptive sports community. Every donation directly funds the sport's growthand helps the Dented Puck Foundation give more visually impaired athletes the chance to play the game we love.  Support our mission & donate here:  https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraise...

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of podcast guest, Team USA Goalie, and everyone's best friend T.J. Stewart. We recorded a few thoughts as a preview to the re-release of one of our favorite episodes, "The Summer of T.J." TJ Stewart was everyone's kid brother, who was "a beacon in a really dark world." We will be celebrating TJ's life on Wednesday as a hockey community by showi...

Welcome back, Tony Chesrow! In this episode we discuss our plans for Twitch - yes we have a Twitch. TV channel - Tony's recovery from back-to-back surgeries, and how he has taken his blind hockey skills directly into being a Top 10 NHL24 XBOX player worldwide! Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? Help us grow the game, share more incredible stories, and suppo...

Our first guest of the new season is Canada's "Minister of Defense", Tristian Lindberg! We discuss his insight about what it's like to grow up playing hockey at a high level - then to transition into blind hockey -, how he got his chance to wear the national team jersey, and how he would get someone to try blind hockey! Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? He...

The boys have wild deja vu in realizing they owe you a Tony update podcast. Background about the shortened Season 8 as well as the crazy schedule The Dented Puck has had over the summer months. Support The Dented Puck & The Growth of Blind Hockey! 🏒 Love the show? Help us grow the game, share more incredible stories, and support the adaptive sports community. Every donation directly funds the...

As is the usual, the attempt was to record the episode before we left on Sunday, but that never happens. It made it a much more important episode when we found out both Mark DeMontis, who we had been playing with all weekend, and Kelsey McGuire were BOTH nominated for the Willie O'Ree Community Hero award! We had to have Kelsey on to help promote her campaign of American voters to add to our recap...

What an awesome experience! (For everyone but Drew) We were so lucky to be able to highlight international blind hockey live at the American Dream Mall in front of thousands of hockey fans as we hosted a live Dented Puck episode that ended up being guest hosted like a beast by Blake Steinecke. We chatted with Jukka Pulkkiinen from Finland and Nathan Tree from the United Kingdom. For more informati...

We were lucky to have Liam O’Callaghan on the podcast this week to give us a little of his back story prior to his first International Blind Hockey Series. Liam explains his journey through sight loss and and quite a varied hockey background that definitely gives us a very Morgan moment. For more information on blind hockey, please visit http://www.thedentedpuck.com To watch the 2024 International...

After a long, active, break, we are back! The releases of this episode was scheduled for 3/22, but technical difficulties pushed us back a week! We sat down with USA Blind Hockey Team member Nick Kalyan before the break and discussed growing up in hockey and a possible youth rivalry with a current teammate. We also discuss how Nick got back into hockey and why Josh is mega jealous of Nick's job. F...

"One of the greatest hockey games I've ever been a part of..." is how one of our hosts described the weekend in Chicago in November, and not for the reason you would expect. Take a trip back to Fifth Third Arena, in Chicago with us as we recap all three divisions of blind hockey action during the 2023 USA Hockey Blind Hockey Classic. Compilation video of "the game" will be posted on Youtube shortl...

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