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// AUGUST 2023 USAHOCKEYMAGAZINE.COM
In episode 18 of the USA Hockey Podcast, Bob Mancini, USA Hockey's assistant executive direc-
tor of hockey development, talks about his path through youth sports into coaching and what
the organization is doing to create cohesion between youth, coaching and officiating groups.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF Credit
Team Murphy's Masterpiece
Dallas Stars
Introduce Fort
Cavazos Youth
to Hockey
p 3ICE concluded its second season of
professional 3-on-3 hockey with Team Murphy
taking home the Patrick Cup with a 2-1
shootout win over Team Patrick at the Wells
Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Aug. 13.
Eamon McAdam and Hank Crone led Team
Murphy to the 2023 3ICE Championship with
heroics during the Patrick Cup Final. First,
McAdam denied Brandon Pirri of Team Patrick
in the one-round shootout with a pad save.
Crone, who also scored Team Murphy's lone
goal in regulation, then scored in the shootout
to clinch the championship for Team Murphy.
It was quite the year for Crone, who was
named the 3ICE MVP after tying for the
league lead in scoring with 14 goals and 18
points in eight games. The Dallas native led
the ECHL in scoring earlier this year with 49
goals and 56 assists and was named the
ECHL's Most Valuable Player.
McAdam won the Guy Carbonneau 3ICE
playoff MVP award as the most outstanding
player of the Patrick Cup Final Weekend.
Team Murphy was coached by Larry
Murphy, a four-time Stanley Cup champion
and Hockey Hall of Famer.
T
he Dallas Stars
helped host a youth
hockey camp for
children of military
families living at Fort
Cavazos in Texas on Aug. 10.
The camp took place on a
ball hockey court that was
opened two years ago to
provide soldiers and their
families an opportunity to
participate in a sport that
may seem somewhat foreign
to them.
During the clinic, the participants were
taught the proper way to hold a hockey
stick and after doing a few drills, they were
competing against each other in games.
"Being able to provide access and
opportunity (was important)," Al Montoya,
director of community outeach for the Dallas
Stars, told the Fort Cavazos Sentinel. "Here
in a non-traditional market like
Texas being … introduced to
another sport, to know there's
other options to them other
than football and soccer (is
important). You don't have to be
a professional athlete to enjoy it
and sports are for everybody."
Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Felty,
III Armored Corps deputy
commanding general of
maneuver, explained to the
group that he hoped the camp
can inspire them to play hockey wherever life
may take them in the future.
"I look at this as an opportunity to introduce
this awesome sport to all of you," he said. "In
a year, you're going to be somewhere else,
and you might be up in the north. You might
be somewhere where hockey is bigger. Maybe
there's a little bit of a spark and then one day
you can be a Dallas Star."
3ICE
COMMUNITY
"You don't have to
be a professional
athlete to enjoy it
and sports are for
everybody."
PHOTOS COURTESY 3ICE; Fort Cavazos Sentinel
