The locker room is quiet, save the tearing of Velcro straps and sticky unspooling of hockey tape. Then comes a giggle. A gentle scold to sit still. Eventually, pink helmets are buckled, skate laces tied, ponytails straightened.
It’s Sunday morning at the Kraken Community Iceplex, and after a Zamboni smooths the surface of Rink 2 to a glossy shine, nearly two dozen girls, ranging from preschoolers to teenagers, clamber from the bench out onto the ice. Over the next hour, they weave around orange cones, skate and stop and, yes, fall. They swipe at pucks with their sticks, shoot at the net, even scrimmage, trailing after the vulcanized rubber disk in a pint-size
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