The main goal of the relay – charity. All the money collected by the teams for participating in the opening of the new tournament season of the Night Hockey League will be transferred to restore schools and kindergartens destroyed in Donbass.
Primorsky Krai joined the All-Russian hockey relay race Peace and Kindness
The regional office of the Night Hockey League of Primorye supported the All-Russian Hockey Relay Race Peace and Kindness. The event was held at the Ussuriysk ice arena and brought together 10 hockey teams from Vladivostok, Artem, Ussuriysk and the village of Vostok in the Krasnoarmeisky district, RIA PrimaMedia was told with reference to the website of the Vladivostok Ice Hockey Federation.
Shakhtar team, Photos from the scene from other sources. Author of the photo: Oleg Zelenin
The main purpose of the relay is charity. All the money collected by the teams for participating in the opening of the new tournament season of the Night Hockey League will be transferred to restore schools and kindergartens destroyed in Donbass.
Sakhalin residents were the first to open the All-Russian action, Primorye residents picked up the next stage.
Hockey, Photos from the event from other sources. Author of the photo: Oleg Zelenin
The format of the relay race was given to the regional offices of the Night League. We did not hesitate for a long time and expanded the age limits of the participants. Along with veterans who are already over 40, very young hockey players took to the ice and showed very productive hockey, the regional representative of the Night Hockey League Oleg Zelenin.
Before the match on the ice arena of Ussuriysk there was a grandiose show of accepting and passing the baton and opening the new season of the IV All-Russian Festival of the Night Hockey League.
Grand opening, Photos from the event from other sources. Author of the photo: Oleg Zelenin
The main event, of course, was the match itself. The game lasted five periods, and each pair of teams took over their mini-relay race: children's Tigers, adults Ussuri Tigers, Bears, Dalzavod and Lightning played for the Dobro team, and children from the second team Tigrov, Tungsten, Askold, Luch and Shakhtar defended Mir. And although the final result on the scoreboard was 10:6 in favor of the Dobro team, according to the participants, friendship eventually won.
Hockey teams, Photos from the scene from other sources. Author of the photo: Oleg Zelenin
The charitable hockey relay race Peace and Kindness passes through the whole country under the auspices of the Night Hockey League. It will end on October 19 in the city of Podolsk, Moscow Region, with a match between Soviet and Russian hockey legends.