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.

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.

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Our Kids Play Hockey

GIVEAWAY: One Week Left! The Ultimate Youth Hockey Holiday Giveaway (Free Entry)

December 24, 2025

⏰ One week left… and this might be the biggest youth hockey giveaway we’ve ever done.

Every year, we look for a way to say thank you to the hockey families who make this community so special — and this year’s Holiday End-of-Year Giveaway is next level.

In this short but important episode, we break down everything one lucky family can win, and trust us — this is the kind of prize pack that makes you the hero of the locker room.

🏒 What’s included in the grand prize?

✨ A Sparx Machine for at-home skate sharpening
💡 A personalized hockey puck lamp for the ultimate fan cave
🧠 Heads Up Hockey – lifetime training app subscription
📊 Helios Hockey Core Sensor
🧊 BladeTech prize pack (custom blades + swag)
😎 Blade Shades sunglasses
🎒 A Hockey Wraparound Prize Pack including a Puckaround 2-Pack, a Hockey Wraparound, and more!
🧼 Team set of Extinct Bomb deodorizer packs
🏒 Best Dam Tape sampler (clear, white, and black)

…and it’s all going to ONE hockey family.

🚨 Important details:

Entry is 100% FREE
Giveaway closes in ONE WEEK
Winners announced after the deadline
You must enter at hockeywraparound.com via the Roundtable Giveaway link

This is one of our favorite traditions, and we don’t want any hockey family missing out.

👉 Enter now, share it with your teammates, and we’ll see you next week when we wrap it all up.

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Hello, hockey friends and families. Look, I’m coming on today to let you know there is one week left in our massive holiday end-of-year giveaway that we’re doing.

And I want to make sure you all know what’s in this. We’re getting a lot of signups. We’re trying to give this audience the best possible chance to win. But just as a reminder, I’m reading these — we are giving away, and all of this for free.

We do this every year. A Sparx machine — a whole Sparx machine for your family. That’s obviously the biggest prize.

We’re giving away an ultimate hockey fan’s puck lamp. Looks like a hockey puck and can have your personalized choice of team on the front.

Heads Up Hockey — it’s a little bit of an app, a training app — we’re giving away a lifetime subscription.

Helios Hockey is giving away a core sensor.

BladeTech — a prize pack with custom blades and swag.

Sense Arena is giving a $50 coupon.

Team Clicks is giving away their hockey-themed sunglasses.

Hockey Wraparound, a brand we all know pretty well, is giving away a prize pack, which will include wraparounds, pucks, My Balls, their new Puck Around — as you know, one of the top-selling pucks in the world — a two-pack of these things.

We’re giving away a team set of Extinct Bomb deodorizers, so your kid will be a hero when he walks into the room with something for every member of the team.

And we’re also giving away Best Damn Tape — a sampler set of clear, white, and black tape, which is really some of the best tape we’ve seen in a long time — a sampler set for you to try out.

All of this is going to one family.

But you have to go over to hockeywraparound.com to sign up. Click the link, or make sure you check out what we’re saying in this episode — the link is accompanying this episode.

Do it now, because this is going to end in a week.

We’ll give you one more reminder next Tuesday when this closes out. But if you haven’t jumped into this, it’s one of our favorite things to do.

So check that out now. Again, hockeywraparound.com. Click the link for the Wraparound Roundtable Giveaway and get yourself this grand prize.

We’ll see you on the next episode of Our Kids Play Hockey.