Sticks for Peyton ***Update***
The Springbank Rockies Peewee 1 Blue team would like to express our sincere thanks to all the families and arenas that helped with the collection of sticks for Peyton Kalbfleisch, a 15 year old who builds chairs out of hockey sticks as part of his therapy after two brain tumours and multiple surgeries.
The team delivered 781 sticks to Peyton’s house this past weekend while attending a tournament in Sherwood Park where Peyton lives. We first met Peyton at the rink on Saturday while attending a game hosted by the Sherwood Park Kings Midget AAA team. Peyton is the Honorary Captain of the team and attends all games and team meetings, and even travels with the team, rooming with the players. We learned first-hand that Peyton’s true passion is hockey and he has been embraced by many in the hockey community there.
We were also fortunate enough to meet Peyton’s mom, Tracey, who is an amazing woman and who had some really great words for our players…the most important being to never take any day for granted and to just have fun being kids!
We then delivered the sticks to Peyton’s house, saw some of the awesome chairs that he makes, enjoyed a team dinner organized by Tracey (Nitza’s Pizza, the Ridgemont Way location…great location for a team dinner if anyone is heading there!), and then more socializing back at the team hotel where Peyton played some poker with our dads and Tracey was made an Honorary Hockey Mom of PW1 Blue. It’s an experience we will remember forever.
Special thanks to Springbank Park for All Seasons for allowing us to store a collection bin at the rink, as well as Edge School and Winsport for their donation of sticks on hand and saving them for us over the three week period we were collecting. The support from the rinks and the families was so much more than we expected.
