Happy Teddy Bear Toss week!
The Teddy Bear Toss is one of my favorite activities in all of ice hockey. It’s an amazing way to collect stuffed animals for children that desperately appreciate them, whether for fire stations, first responder teams, hospitals, or shelters - and with the teddies raining down at the first goal scored by the home team, it’s almost always a guarantee to work out in the team’s favor.
(Of course, Niklas Treutle once shut out the home team on teddy bear toss night, not realizing what he was doing. But he’s from Germany, so we give him a free pass.