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Hockey Heals provides community, love for players facing life-threatening adversity: “This is actually what I’m living for”

“When I get out there, I just want to be smiling,” Hanna Gootée says. “I go hard, but I just want the joy.”

Kyle Newman, digital prep sports editor for The Denver Post.
By | knewman@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Hockey players and coaches who are part of the DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation gather at center ice for a photo at Edge Ice Arena on November 8, 2023 in Littleton. The group of players consist of survivors of illness, trauma, and disabilities that get together to play hockey through support of the foundation. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Hockey players and coaches who are part of the DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation gather at center ice for a photo at Edge Ice Arena on November 8, 2023 in Littleton. The group of players consist of survivors of illness, trauma, and disabilities that get together to play hockey through support of the foundation. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
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The group meets every Wednesday morning at Edge, where Hanna Gootée, a 26-year-old former club hockey captain at Boston University, says the hour-long practice and scrimmage "is something that people intentionally come to, and intentionally hold onto when they leave."
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