Born and raised on the Vineyard, Nick Kent has trotted the globe to play hockey and now works for the Tampa Bay Lightning. But he still comes back every summer to teach the games he loves to Island kids.
The NHL spared no expense making a documentary short on the Vineyard high school boys hockey team, shipping over an entire five-person camera crew in the run-up to its season opener against off-Island rival Whitman-Hanson.
When Gene Townes slid a nifty pass to land the puck right on the stick of Vicky Thurber and she flipped it into the net, the combined age of the goal scoring duo was 134 years.
Bragging rights took a back seat at the third annual police versus fire hockey game which was a benefit this year for the Island Autism Group and the family of Erica Ponte. (P.S. Team Blue won).
The Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena played host to the East Coast Classic, a hockey tournament that pits eight summer teams from the Northeast against one another in a battle for the Vineyard Cup.
The police versus firemen hockey game raised over $9,000 for Vineyard House, and a public skate fundraiser earlier netted over $6,000 for injured Zamboni driver Mike Hathaway.
A full parking lot equaled a packed arena at the inaugural MV Savings Bank Showdown college hockey tournament this weekend. The action on the ice was fierce, but in the stands the climate was more like a community picnic.
