my daughters ,” says Gary , who despite not being a hockey player himself , was the girls ’ enthusiastic coach when they were young . “ My superpower was not skills , it was getting the kids to play together .”
Manchester ’ s Riley Rink seems to have served the young women very well . “ My best friend and I used to bike there from our houses all the time ,” Danielle says . “ They had ‘ summer ice ’ so we used to spend all day there , we even had our own lockers and kept all sorts of stuff there like scooters , bikes , game cube , hockey stuff . We ’ d hang out at the Rec ( Manchester ’ s Dana Thompson Memorial Park ) and then bike back to the rink , get on the ice and play stickand-puck or do a public skate . And then we ’ d bike into town and go get a sandwich from Discount Beverage . The
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