DetroitRedWings.com’s Jonathan Mills reports that the Red Wings’ prospects made their traditional Tuesday-after-the-prospect-tournament visit to a local Traverse City school to teach the students about hockey. This time they added a wrinkle in giving Central Grade School’s students a “Little Free Library”:
In the Detroit Red Wings’ latest effort to make a difference off the ice, all 24 members of their 2024 NHL Prospect Games roster stopped by Central Grade School to host a ball hockey clinic on Monday morning.
Smiles were abundant inside the gym, as approximately 40 students learned the basic elements of hockey like stickhandling, passing and shooting at rotating stations that were led by the Red Wings prospects and several Ilitch Sports + Entertainment Community Impact colleagues.
Defenseman Shai Buium said he really enjoyed teaching the game of hockey to the students.
“It’s really cool,” Buium told DetroitRedWings.com. “Growing up in San Diego, I really didn’t get any of this. We didn’t have NHL prospects come and teach us how to play hockey, so it’s pretty special to be able to do this with the kids.”
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During the interactive visit, forward Nate Danielson helped unveil a Red Wings-themed Little Free Library that was donated to the school by the Detroit Red Wings Foundation through the Red Wings for Reading Program, which is a literary initiative that encourages students in K-5 classrooms across the state of Michigan to spend more time reading.
Danielson then read “Dino-Hockey” – a book by Michigan-based author Lisa Wheeler – to a group of first graders before answering their questions. The fun Q&A session was wide-ranging, with the children asking Danielson what his favorite color is, why he likes playing hockey, if he’s ever done a backflip and more.
