Ryan Whitney

that he's been putting on and basically built a rink in El Jebel, which is about a 30 minute drive from Aspen.

It's a smaller community.

And like we did the video and there was a little bit of criticism like, oh yeah, free hockey and free rink and free gear for kids who live in Aspen.

Well, guys, when you have a place like Aspen,

you know, the people who help run the town and do all like the, the hard jobs, like they live on the outskirts.

Right.

So El Jabal has a pretty strong community of like Hispanics and people who are like of the working class.

And, you know, maybe they can't afford to get their kids in hockey and maybe they don't have a background in that where they even know where to begin.

So he, he not only, uh, built this smaller rink, which is now he, uh,

took that down, and now they have one that's, like, three times the size with grandstands and lights, and it's on the side of a mountain, and it's just beautiful.

They have two, like, a bunch of dressing rooms now that they've built, so the minor hockey system can get going, and they provide hockey equipment for these kids who have never played.

So they have so many boys and girls that have been introduced to the game, and as you guys know, like...

it's, it's nice to have a place where like, you know, when you're young, you can be influenced one way or another.

So if you're hanging out at a rink and, and building and, and getting to know a team sport and yeah, but like, so it's, it's just good where the community, these kids have a place to go and learn, learn a new sport.

And, and, um,

you know, work as a team and get to learn a lot of life skills that are being put on by the Colorado extreme.

And they've now partnered up to do an alumni game with the Colorado avalanche where, so the, the charity and everything they do has just grown massively over the last four years since we dropped that video.

And gee, maybe you could put up the link or something as to where you can go watch where we originally went there about four years ago, how it all began and where it started.

And now you can kind of go see online as to where it is now.

Like Peter Forsberg was playing for the Avs in that one.