Good day. Real cool event tonight in Eden Prairie. Tickets are going fast, but they can be purchased at the rink for $25 up until the event. I may even see you there. I'll be the one heckling Burns and Clutterbuck.

VELOCITY HOCKEY CENTER TO HOST NHL ACTION SEPT. 1


NHL Night to Benefit Cohasset Elementary Kindergarten Teacher Jackie Bischoff.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota - The Velocity Hockey Center is set to host NHL Night on Wednesday, September 1 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. featuring a 3-on-3 game with two teams made up of players from the Minnesota Wild, other NHL teams and former players from the University of Minnesota. Proceeds from the event will benefit Team Bisch, in support of Cohasset Elementary Kindergarten Teacher, Jackie Bischoff, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.

The players are broken up into two teams, Team White and Team Red. Team White features, Keith Ballard (Vancouver Canucks), Paul Martin (Pittsburgh Penguins), Andrew Brunette (Minnesota Wild), Stephane Veilleux (Tampa Bay Lightning), Matt Carle (Philadelphia Flyers), Dustin Byfuglien (Atlanta Thrashers), Tim Conboy (Buffalo Sabres), Mark Stuart (Boston Bruins), and Cory Schneider (Vancouver Canucks).

Playing for Team Red will be Alex Goligoski (Pittsburgh Penguins), Brent Burns (Minnesota Wild), Dan Sexton (Anaheim Ducks), Steve Wagner (Pittsburgh Penguins), Cal Clutterbuck (Minnesota Wild), Cam Barker (Minnesota Wild), Nate Thompson (Tampa Bay Lightning), Nick Schultz (Minnesota Wild), and Al Stalock (San Jose Sharks).

The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. with an autograph session with the players until 6:45 p.m. Team White and Team Red will take the ice at 7:00 p.m. During the event, a silent auction will take place on all player's game-worn jerseys, proceeds to benefit Team Bischoff.
The Velocity Hockey Center is a 130x65 regulation hockey rink that is used primarily in the Spring and Fall for their very popular 3-on-3 hockey leagues, in the summer for their Velocity Hockey Clinics and in the winter for ice rentals to a wide variety of youth hockey associations for their team practices.

The Velocity Hockey Center is a unique hockey rink in that it is two thirds the dimension of a regular ice sheet found in a typical Municipality setting. The smaller ice dimensions at the Velocity Hockey Center help to enhance the overall development of a players' abilities.

Team Bisch is a charity in support of Jackie Bischoff. Recently, wife, mom, Cohasset Elementary Kindergarten Teacher, sports enthusiast and all around wonder woman Jackie Bischoff was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Jackie is a hockey mom of four, and husband Grant Bischoff was teammate and roommate of retired professional hockey players Ben Hankinson, USA Director of Player Representation at Octagon Hockey and Chris McAlpine, Player Representative at Octagon Hockey.

The event is sponsored by Octagon Hockey, part of Octagon Inc.'s worldwide sports agency; selected by the Sports Business Journal as its inaugural Sports Agency of the Year in 2009 representing world-class clients across all disciplines of sports and entertainment. Octagon Hockey has represented NHL clients for more than 30 years and represents many of the top players and emerging stars in the NHL.

Jerseys were donated by Sports World USA, a sporting goods equipment store located in Eden Prairie.

The Velocity Hockey Center is located at 7901 Fuller Road in Eden Prairie. For more information call 952.937.0949.