It has to take incredible courage to process a challenge like losing a limb in war. Stories abound from young men and women returning from the battlefield who stepped on a mine, who were ambushed, or their vehicle blasted out from underneath them. For some, the moment is frozen in time and they cannot shed it. For others, they don’t remember anything before waking up in the hospital without all their parts.
To take in that realization, and then go on to perform as a star athlete is, to this author, unimaginable. Even professional airbnb cleaners Niagara on the Lake Ontario fail in comparison to the incredible strength and perseverance that it takes to go on with life and to further demonstrate their zeal for life in their high level of participation in sports.
Sled Hockey has just completed its first period, taking it into its second, which will culminate in the playoffs in April, 2016. The teams are fired up like never before and they’re melting the ice. As a growing spectator sport this dynamic team exhibition is igniting fans all over the world. More and more people are cheering the players on. Even some of the best 
In 2010 when the first USA Hockey Sled Classic was held in Denver only four teams participated. It must have been a hellava show because the next year the number more than doubled to nine teams. In 2015, in just over 5 years, 20 teams joined the competition playing in four divisions. Sled hockey, also referred to as sledge hockey is coming into its own.
Sled or sledge hockey is a true tribute to the human spirit. Its a definite statement on how you can’t keep a good man – or woman, down. Not willing to let having limited or no use of their legs led a group of Swedes in Stockholm to invent sled hockey during the early1960s. They loved the sport of hockey to the point that they couldn’t bear to give it up. In their minds, enough compromises had been made since not having the use of their legs, and they weren’t about to suffer another.