Over the course of a weekend tournament, youth sledge hockey teams from the U.S. and Canada battle for supremacy. Designed for players who have a physical challenge, the fundaments of the sport — passing, shooting, trash talking your opponents – remain the same. Director Sam Vint captures the end-to-end action as the Manitoba Sledgehammers do it all.
Over the course of a weekend tournament, youth sledge hockey teams from the U.S. and Canada battle for supremacy. Designed for players who have a physical challenge, the fundaments of the sport — passing, shooting, trash talking your opponents – remain the same. Director Sam Vint captures the end-to-end action as the Manitoba Sledgehammers do it all.
Consider the similarities between this hockey tournament and a conventional hockey tournament. Research the history of sledge hockey. Research to compare sledge hockey to traditional hockey. Identify examples of sportsmanship, leadership and teamwork/team play in the film. One of the challenges for this team is playing against teams with older players. How does the team respond to this challenge during play as well as before and after the game? Share a time you were met with a challenge. How did you respond to it?
The Tournament, Sam Vint, provided by the National Film Board of Canada