Our Kids Play Hockey
Our Kids Play Hockey is a podcast that focuses on youth hockey, offering insights, stories, and interviews from the hockey community. It provides valuable advice for parents, coaches, and players, covering various aspects of the game, including skill development, sportsmanship, teamwork, and creating a positive experience for young athletes. The show frequently features guests who share their expertise and personal experiences in youth hockey, both on and off the ice.
The show features three hockey parents, who all work in the game at high levels:
- Christie Casciano-Burns - USA Hockey Columnist, Author, and WSYR Anchor
- Mike Bonelli - USA Hockey Coach and Organizational Consultant
- Lee M.J. Elias - Hockey Entrepreneur, Author, and Team Strategist
In addition to the main podcast, there are several spin-off series that dive into specific aspects of youth hockey:
1.Our Girls Play Hockey – This series highlights the growing presence of girls in hockey, addressing the unique challenges they face while celebrating their accomplishments and contributions to the sport. Each episode of Our Girls Play Hockey is also hosted by Sheri Hudspeth who is the Director, Youth Hockey Programs and Fan Development for the Vegas Golden Knights.
2.The Ride to The Rink – A shorter, motivational series designed to be listened to on the way to the rink, offering quick, inspirational tips and advice to help players and parents get into the right mindset before a game or practice.
3.Our Kids Play Goalie – This series is dedicated to young goalies and the unique challenges they face. It provides advice for players, parents, and coaches on how to support and develop young goaltenders, focusing on the mental and physical demands of the position.
Together, these shows provide a comprehensive platform for parents, players, and coaches involved in youth hockey, offering insights for all aspects of the sport, from parenting, playing, or coaching to specialized positions like goaltending.
Our Kids Play Hockey
We Need Your Help To Win The 2025 Hockey Podcast Of The Year Award!
Hello, hockey friends and families! 🎙️ This week’s episode of Our Kids Play Hockey is a short but special one. We’re thrilled to announce that our podcast has been nominated for the 2025 Hockey Podcast of the Year by the Sports Podcast Awards! 🏆 After winning in 2023 and 2024, we’re going for the hat trick—and we need your help to make it happen.
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Your vote not only helps us win but also elevates the conversations we’re having within the hockey community. Let’s make this a victory we can all share!
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Speaker A [0:02 - 3:26]: Hello hockey friends and families around the world. And welcome back to another edition of our Kids Play Hockey. It is Lee Elias with you today. We have a special episode. Today we have a request from all of our loyal listeners for this episode. It's going to be a short one and in place of the usually hour long conversations we have, we're asking for a favor. Our Kids play hockey, your favorite podcast, has been nominated for the 2025 Hockey Podcast of the Year by the Sports Podcast Awards once again in the hockey category. It's a tremendous honor. We have won this in back to back years. Now in 23 and 24, we are going for the hat trick. We are going for the trifecta. First off, we gotta thank you all of the loyal listeners for helping us once again double our audience and grow the community over the past year. That's a stat that is really amazing than that's an award in itself. But we want to win this one too. And your vote really matters. And again, you can help us win this. For the third year in a row, we've tried to make this as simple for you as possible. It's a really easy process. So the first thing you can do is if you're listening to this podcast, there's a link in the show notes. All you have to do is follow that link in the description or you can head over to our kids playhockey.com obviously and click on the banner at the top that very clearly says click here to vote for us. Right? And when you dive into this, you only have to enter your name and email. It's a super honest competition. They will not spam you. You'll find our Kids Play Hockey on the list. You click, you vote. There's a very clear opt out of any emails you need to get and I don't even think it's selected. So they really do take care of you here. We love this competition. We love the Sports Podcast Awards. And look, we've worked really hard over the last five years now to create meaningful conversations in the hockey world. And we just really appreciate your trust and your support, not just obviously in the pursuit of this award, but also as we try to grow this hockey community of parents, coaches and players with the understanding, as we always say, it's, it's the hockey world's crazy. You're not crazy. And the notes that we get from you, the emails that we get from you, both acknowledging episodes but asking questions, asking us for advice, asking us for resources to help you on the hockey journey, that's why we do it. So thank you so much for that. And just in closing, again, grateful for your listenership, for you taking the time to vote. We want to win this together. We want to share this together. When Our Kids Play Hockey wins Best Podcast of the Year. It really opens doors for us with guests, with conversations, with organizations, and allows people to understand that the conversations that we are having mean something within the youth hockey world. That's what this provides. So once again, take a look in the description. With this episode, there'll be a clickable link that will take you right to the vote. Or head over to our kids playhockey.com and click on the banner at the top. It's going to be really clearly labeled to vote for our Kids Play Hockey to be the top hockey Podcast of the year for 2025 via the Sports Podcast Awards. That's it. That's the episode. We're saving you the other 59 minutes, so just go ahead, help us out with that. We, we appreciate you above all, as I always say, thanks for listening to this edition of our Kids Play Hockey. If you have a question, comment, there's also going to be the link in the in the description where you can email us or text us and always team@our kidsplayhockey.com for anything you need. Thank you all so much. We appreciate you greatly. And yeah, let's win this together. Have a great day, everybody, and skate on.
