Brenden Ojibway and Luke Russell horse around on the hockey rink, waiting for a game to start.
Brenden, 8, playfully hooks Luke, 13, from behind with his hockey stick. “Hey cheater, leggo,” Luke counters.
Hockey players come and go in a steady parade of sticks and blades, with players yearning for ice time.
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Sticks, blades and, for Luke and Brenden, wheels. As in wheelchairs.
The boys are part of a group of young wheelchair hockey players who come every Sunday night for about four months each year to Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, also known as the Shell. They come to experience the satisfying crack of wood against a hard rubber puck and to feel the sense of flying that comes with being propelled across the ice at high speed.