{"id":794567,"date":"2019-04-05T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:12:00","slug":"summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Hockey Classic and its visiting celebrity players return for 22nd annual fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8311688311688\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-364126-742\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy McCahn Rawson | A goaltender braces to save the puck during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"A goaltender braces to save the puck during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>A goaltender braces to save the puck during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy McCahn Rawson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy McChan Rawson | A player possesses the puck and looks up-ice during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"A player possesses the puck and looks up-ice during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>A player possesses the puck and looks up-ice during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy McChan Rawson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy McChan Rawson | Offensive action encroaches on the goaltender's crease during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/HockeyClassic-SDN-040619-1-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Offensive action encroaches on the goaltender's crease during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Offensive action encroaches on the goaltender&#8217;s crease during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge. The 2019 Classic, the 22nd annual, will feature a third-place game at Stephen C. West Ice Arena at 4 p.m. Saturday, followed by a celebrity shootout at 6 p.m. and the championship game at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy McChan Rawson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Summit Hockey\u2019s biggest annual fundraiser returns this weekend to Stephen C. West Ice Arena in Breckenridge with many familiar local faces as well as visiting celebrities, all leading up to Saturday evening\u2019s celebrity shootout and championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Each year, the Summit Hockey Classic divides local skaters and visiting celebrities, including some former National Hockey League professionals, onto four different teams: Breckenridge Grand Vacations, Vail-Summit Orthopaedics, Copper Mountain and Beaver Run. Captains associated with each of the four organizations drafted sides last month, and play began Friday evening with the semifinal round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Friday evening\u2019s semifinal results were not available at press time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Chris Miller, the director of Summit Youth Hockey, said the annual event, which is in its 22nd year, goes a long way to funding Summit Youth Hockey\u2019s scholarships \u2014 as much as 20 percent of the organization\u2019s annual fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIce costs over $210 an hour, and if you multiply that through a whole season, that\u2019s a lot of money,\u201d Miller said after Thursday\u2019s free skate at Stephen C. West Ice Arena in advance of the event. \u201cOur goal is to make hockey accessible for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Miller will be skating for VSO again this year. He said the best part of the classic is always the same thing: being around hockey lifers and chatting the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe stories the pros tell us, and, just being in a room with a bunch of people in the community and feeling like you are part of a team for the weekend,\u201d Miller said. \u201cSeeing how our community comes together and supports our little association. And this place is filled. You get to feel like a superstar for a couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Miller said one of the pros playing for the first time this year is Ben Scrivens who played in the NHL from 2011 to 2016 with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers. This weekend, Scrivens, though, will play out of the goal on the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One of the pros in goal will be Marty Wakelyn, a former member of the NHL\u2019s New York Islanders. After 15 years, this will be Wakelyn\u2019s final Summit Hockey Classic and, this weekend, he will have the chance to play against his son Dougie. Dougie, like Marty, will also play as a goaltender this weekend, as Dougie played goalie for the Breckenridge Bolts last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As part of this weekend\u2019s festivities, Miller said during Saturday\u2019s championship game Summit Hockey will honor one of their youth players, Taylor Ash. Ash, a junior at Summit High School and a member of Summit Hockey\u2019s U-19 girls team, hasn\u2019t been able to play this season due to a diagnosis of the rare bone cancer osteosarcoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a real bummer that she hasn\u2019t played this year and it\u2019s really affected the association,\u201d Miller said. \u201cSo we just wanted to do whatever we could to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Other celebrity players this year include former Colorado Avalanche, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals player Rick Berry; former Minnesota North Star Rick Boh; Darryl Bootland; Brian Canady; Nate Davis; Taylor Hustead; Nick Larson; former Colorado Avalanche player Aaron MacKenzie; former St. Louis Blue Peter Sejna; former Blues, Canadiens, Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Avalanche and Islanders player Pierre Turgeon; and former Columbus Blue Jacket Duvie Westcott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/summit-hockey-classic-and-its-visiting-celebrity-players-return-for-22nd-annual-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A goaltender braces to save the puck during the 2018 Summit Hockey Classic at Stephen C. 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