National Hockey League Players’ Association
The National Hockey League Players Association, NHLPA, is one of the largest contributors to Defendi
ng The Blue Line®. The NHLPA Goals and Dreams Foundation has donated over $330,000 in equipment and financial support TO UNITED HEROES LEAGUE. With their help United Heroes League has been able to outfit over 550 military kids, from all over the world, with top of the line gear. Families request the gear, sign for it, and when it is outgrown they return it to be sterilized and re-issued. United Heroes League is truly grateful for the massive amount of support both financially and logistically that they have provided to military families.
January 2015 – The NHLPA provides tickets to a special United Heroes League military family from Columbus, Ohio for the 2015 NHL All Star Game.
November 18, 2014 – NHLPA Goals & Dreams Tour – Keith Ballard, Charlie Coyle, Darcy Kuemper, Jason Pomi Mark Parrish started the NHLPA Goals & Dreams Tour at the Defending The Blue Line® office in Hastings, Minnesota. Read the article about this special day.
February 18, 2014 – Eighty boxes of brand new, high end gear arrived at Defending The Blue Line® headquarters today thanks to the generosity of the NHLPA Goals & Dreams program! Special thanks to Devin Smith and all of the NHL Pros who support our program and make great days like today possible. There’s going to be some super happy military kids wearing this stuff!
Veterans Day, November 11, 2013 – The NHLPA Goals and Dreams donated 50 sets of hockey gear to Defending The Blue Line®. Fifty military kids were invited along with pro hockey players who all skated together at John Rose Oval Ice Rink in Roseville, Minnesota. See the photos in the right of this event in the right sidebar.
June 20, 2012 – United Heroes League sponsored an NHL Players Charity Game at Ridder Arena on the University of Minnesota Campus. Prior to the pro players suiting up to help our cause, we were lucky enough to have the NHLPA Goals & Dreams Foundation staff, along with a few of the pro’s, host a great 1 hour clinic for over 50 local military kids. The kids received some great training from the likes of Nate Prosser, Tom Chorske, Aaron Boogaard, Zach McKelvie, and Matt Langen from the NHLPA.
It was a dream come true for the service members’ kids, who represented every branch of the military. Each skater went home with some new training tips, a trophy, a jersey, and most of all the memory of a lifetime. This was such a great night to have the kids out to skate, then get a few autographs, and finally watch their idols put on a show in team Army’s 7-5 victory. Thank you to NHLPA for coming out and supporting such an awesome evening.
July 23, 2011 – The NHLPA Goals and Dreams Foundation has donated over $130K in equipment and financial support TO UNITED HEROES LEAGUE. $100K in equipment funding allowed Defending The Blue Line® to outfit more than 100 military kids in Minnesota, 50 in New York, and 50 in California with top of the line gear. United Heroes League is truly grateful for the massive amount of support both financially and logistically that they have provided to military families across North America. View the photos in the right sidebar.
