HOCKEY PLAYER PARALYSED AFTER CRASH
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18/06/2018Ice Hockey
One of the best ice-hockey players in Slovak history, Marián Hossa, has dropped out of the whole 2017/2018 season due to health problems, the SME Daily wrote on May 19.
While at Chicago, he won the Stanley Cup three times (2010, 2013 and 2015)...
Alex Valvo is a collegiate hockey referee who happens to be gay. He sees a link between his on-ice life, where referees exist to ensure fair play, and his off-ice life. “All that referees want is a fair game between two teams,” he says. “And that’s...
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