Good things take time and honest efforts - benefits many - Good Job Adam !

Lancaster’s Adam Page, a 16-year sled hockey player and member of the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team that won the gold medal at the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia, was behind Depew’s sled hockey effort.

Page, 22, recently joined the Saints board of directors. His girlfriend, Anna Santoro – the daughter of Saints board member Dave Santoro – helped develop with the idea. “We all started talking a year ago and started looking at it,” said Dave Borkowski, Saints Hockey Club president. “The Saints want to be involved with the sled hockey program and do the tournament annually and build the game.”

Page already has checked out the synthetic ice and new accommodations at the Depew rink. “It’s awesome to have another rink that is suited for sled hockey,” he said. “It’s great exposure for the sport.”

A three-day sled hockey tournament this weekend is drawing seven teams from around the country and the region. Disabled players from New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania and Ohio will compete. Page, a member of the Buffalo Sabres Sled Hockey Team, will be among those on the ice.

“We’re excited that we’ll have sled hockey here. It’s an incredible investment. To have a club change the rink and retrofit it for sled hockey, we’re touched by it,” said Norman Page, Adam’s father, who is a national sled hockey representative for USA Hockey. “It really is such a positive out of a negative. It’s symbolic when you think about it. That’s what sled hockey is about, too.”

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