The 2023 National Disabled Hockey Festival is one of the largest disabled sporting events. Our next few episodes have some terrific interviews with people we spoke to at the USA Hockey National Disability Festival in St. Louis, MO.

We get to chat with special guests Colton Doherty from the CHROME Lab at St. Louis University, Logan Spellman from USA Hockey Disabled Hockey Program and the President and CEO of the St. Louis Blues Chris Zimmerman. We cover the off ice perspectives around this amazing event including the technology and community components that make this event world class.

Colten Doherty is a graduate student at the CHROME lab at Saint Louis University. (Collaborative, Haptics, Robotics and Mechatronics) Colten's work includes the hockey puck adaptive technology that supports blind hockey. Meet the great team of people at CHROME here: https://sites.google.com/slu.edu/gorlewicz-lab/chrome-lab-team?authuser=0

Logan Spellman is an intern within the USA Hockey disability program. Logan is passionate about the disabled hockey programs and loves contributing to USA Hockey's investment and intention to make hockey one of the most inclusive sports. You can learn more about the USA Hockey disabled programs here: https://www.usahockey.com/disabledhockey

Finally, Chris Zimmerman is the President and CEO of the St. Louis Blues. Chris joined the Blues organization in 2014 and under his leadership transformed the business and continues to uplift the hockey community in the St. Louis region. This includes supporting a variety of disabled hockey programs including blind, special and warrior hockey. The vision of Chris and the Blues organization made it possible for St. Louis to host national hockey events like this festival and many more to come.

https://www.nhl.com/blues/news/usa-hockey-disabled-festival-begins-march-30/c-342807102

https://www.usahockey.com/disabledhockeyfestival