USA Hockey Magazine

JINCY DUNNE U.S. Women's National Team "Growing up, all six of us would s l e e p i n t h e s a m e r o o m o n Christmas Eve and wear match- ing Christmas onesies. We'd also do a Secret Santa sibling gift exchange each year as well." Wal lace Footbal l Game Patrick Kane with Santa The Hensley clan with matching sweaters Jesse Compher tops tree NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 USAHOCKEYMAGAZINE.COM // 35 NICOLE HENSLEY U.S. Women's National Team "My family loves the holiday sea- son. We always try to spend as much time together as possible. We go to the Denver Center for Performing Arts each year to see A Christmas Carol and on Christmas Eve the whole family gets matching pajamas. The best part of the holidays though, my mom makes the most incredible croissants every year on both Thanksgiving and Christmas." P PATRICK KANE Chicago Blackhawks " We always went to 4 o'clock M a s s o n C h r i st m a s Eve a n d stopped at Imperial Pizza after for a cheese pizza before head- ing to my aunt's house for a fam- ily celebration. On Christmas Day, it would be opening gifts a n d a b i g b r e a k f a st a t h o m e with my sisters and mom and d a d . T h e n w e 'd e i t h e r g o t o Grandma and Grandpa Kano's or gather at our house and we'd just play all day long. The day a f t e r C h r i st m a s i t w o u l d b e another celebration with my mom's family or sometimes a hockey tournament." JACK WALLACE U.S. National Sled Team " I h a v e a b i g f a m i l y u p a n d down the east coast and we'd get together in Franklin Lakes, N.J., for Thanksgiving and have a foot- ball game in our yard and also a street hockey game in the drive- way or at our local roller rink. That was always a great time. And at Christmas, we'd watch A Christmas Story every year and my dad would get me and my siblings with that same trick with the Red Rider BB gun hid- den behind the cabinet in our house. Usually it would be hock- ey sticks that my brother and I wanted and my dad would wrap them up and put them behind the cabinet. It was the same gag every year but it was great." JESSE COMPHER U.S. Women's National Team " I a m o n e o f t h r e e s i b l i n g s, so we rotate each year which kid will g et to put the ang el on top of our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. It's always fun to get to spend time with o u r e n t i r e f a m i l y. My d a d 's s i d e o f t h e f a m i l y u s u a l l y comes over on Christmas Eve and we always play, left, right, c e n t e r a n d t h e n m y m o m 's side of the family gets togeth- e r o n C h r i s t m a s m o r n i n g for breakfast. It's a tradition for us to make pancakes and bacon together."

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