COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, will join Gary Bettman, commissioner of the National Hockey League; Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals; and former NCAA women’s ice hockey player Michelle McGann, Wednesday (March 2) for a panel discussion before members of Congress and their staffs titled “From the Ice to the Classroom: Hockey’s Many Lessons for Our Students.”
The event, slated to begin at 9:00 a.m. ET in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, is being hosted by the Congressional Hockey Caucus, including co-chairs Reps. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.). Dave Fischer from USA Hockey will serve as moderator.
Wednesday evening the scene will shift to the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Virginia, practice home of the NHL’s Washington Capitals, for the eighth annual Congressional Hockey Challenge. The event — a friendly, but competitive ice hockey game pitting Lawmakers against Lobbyists — will faceoff at 7 p.m., with proceeds benefiting the NHL scholarship of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club and USA Warriors Ice Hockey.
