The El Paso Mooses
Welcome you to
Sonic Hockey!
Update: August 1, 2020
Our last hockey session was at the Nations-Tobin Sports Center on Saturday, March 7th. The El Paso Parks and Recreation Department shut down this facility three days later. Like every hockey player in the world, our players now await a return to normalcy, when we can play together -safely- once again. We will make monthly notifications on this website until that time comes...
Mission Statement: What are we doing?
The El Paso Mooses Hockey Club provides everybody: blind, visually impaired, and sighted persons, adults and children, the opportunity to enjoy playing the sport of hockey, while playing with no use of vision. As the game of hockey is a dynamic team sport, every player enjoys being part of the team, striving to play their best, respectfully and sportsmanlike, against an equal opponent. Every player becomes more physically fit and improves their health. Every player challenges, develops, and improves their character as a person. Every player gains the self-respect and satisfaction of successful performance. Every player has fun!
Our last hockey session was at the Nations-Tobin Sports Center on Saturday, March 7th. The El Paso Parks and Recreation Department shut down this facility three days later. Like every hockey player in the world, our players now await a return to normalcy, when we can play together -safely- once again. We will make monthly notifications on this website until that time comes...
Mission Statement: What are we doing?
The El Paso Mooses Hockey Club provides everybody: blind, visually impaired, and sighted persons, adults and children, the opportunity to enjoy playing the sport of hockey, while playing with no use of vision. As the game of hockey is a dynamic team sport, every player enjoys being part of the team, striving to play their best, respectfully and sportsmanlike, against an equal opponent. Every player becomes more physically fit and improves their health. Every player challenges, develops, and improves their character as a person. Every player gains the self-respect and satisfaction of successful performance. Every player has fun!
"More Hockey for Everybody!"
The El Paso Mooses welcome you to play with us!
We play the sport of hockey with no use of vision!
We welcome players with all levels of vision, and when we play, we all play blind!
Want to play?
Join us!
Call Danny at 915-252-1678
We play the sport of hockey with no use of vision!
We welcome players with all levels of vision, and when we play, we all play blind!
Want to play?
Join us!
Call Danny at 915-252-1678
Mooses on the Rink:
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A montage of Mooses' action images. We are hoping that people who think blind persons can't really play hockey have a chance to see this! We love this game!
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This video shows about about five minutes of pattern playmaking. The video does a very good job of "showing" what blind players hear and feel as they move about the floor. The goal beepers, the puck siren, teammates: all play to the player's hearing, and together with the walls and the tactile blue lines, allow the players to know where they are and where they're going as they move about the floor.
As you view the video, keep in mind that both players are playing sightless, using only their hearing and sense of touch to move about the floor, find the puck, make and receive passes, run onto the puck, turn and stickhandle the puck, shoot on goal, then get the puck out of the goal and start the next play. There are more videos in the Mooses on the Rink section of this website. This is hockey played with no use of vision: this is Sonic Hockey! We love this game! |
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Mooses on the Rink
This page highlights Mooses' training, practice, and game sessions. 
Mooses in action: David, white sweater, right, and Mickayla, black sweater, left go literally head-to-head for the puck. Its all about jockeying for position, using your weight and balance, and hearing-focusing on the puck's location at the same time. This is an elite skill that both these players possess at a high level. See the "Mooses on the Rink" section for the highlights of our most recent game session! |
We call our game, "Sonic Hockey," because we use our hearing to play the game, instead of our vision (which many of us don't have). The game is designed for players with different vision levels, or no vision at all, to play even-up with each other!
In Sonic Hockey, we play hockey with no use of vision, everybody plays blind, and everybody can play everywhere on the rink! |
What's new on this website?
Updates:
Our last hockey session was at the Nations-Tobin Sports Center on Saturday, March 7th. The El Paso Parks and Recreation Department shut down this facility three days later. Like every hockey player in the world, our players now await a return to normalcy, when we can play together -safely- once again. We will make monthly notifications on this website until that time comes...
Facebook Link:
Updates:
Our last hockey session was at the Nations-Tobin Sports Center on Saturday, March 7th. The El Paso Parks and Recreation Department shut down this facility three days later. Like every hockey player in the world, our players now await a return to normalcy, when we can play together -safely- once again. We will make monthly notifications on this website until that time comes...
Facebook Link:
Who can play Sonic Hockey?
Actually, anybody can! Are you a blind or visually impaired person? Have you ever played a team sport? or any sport? Regardless of your answers to those questions, you can play Sonic Hockey. Heck, you can play even if you are fully sighted (you just have to be willing to play blind)!
We all play blind! Everybody plays fairly and evenly vs. everybody else!
Check out this website, and call us, we want you to play with us, even if you have never skated at all!
Do you know somebody who might like to play with us?
Tell 'em to call us!
The El Paso Mooses will provide all instruction, all fees, and all equipment to you for free!
How's that?
Special Invite:
Would you like to play, but you don't live in the El Paso area? Somewhere else in the country?
We want all blind, visually impaired, and sighted hockey players in other cities, anywhere in the country, to be able to play Sonic Hockey! Here's our invitation: We play hockey with all players playing with no use of vision. If you have at least two players who would like to try this, we will travel to your rink with 6-8 of our skaters and one or two goalies. Frankly, your players can be sheer beginners, if they can skate forward at any speed, slow included, and whack a puck, they can do this very well! The players can be blind, visually impaired or sighted. They must be committed to playing hockey with no use of vision!
We will bring our Sonic Hockey rink equipment, pebble the blue lines, show your players how we do this, set up two teams, and let's play a game for fun! This will introduce your players to the game where all players can compete anywhere on the ice, and make any play in the game, including goal scoring! Call us!
The two (or more) players can be blind, visually impaired willing to play blind, or sighted willing to play blind.
That's all you need, two beginner level players! Let's play some hockey!
Would you like to play, but you don't live in the El Paso area? Somewhere else in the country?
We want all blind, visually impaired, and sighted hockey players in other cities, anywhere in the country, to be able to play Sonic Hockey! Here's our invitation: We play hockey with all players playing with no use of vision. If you have at least two players who would like to try this, we will travel to your rink with 6-8 of our skaters and one or two goalies. Frankly, your players can be sheer beginners, if they can skate forward at any speed, slow included, and whack a puck, they can do this very well! The players can be blind, visually impaired or sighted. They must be committed to playing hockey with no use of vision!
We will bring our Sonic Hockey rink equipment, pebble the blue lines, show your players how we do this, set up two teams, and let's play a game for fun! This will introduce your players to the game where all players can compete anywhere on the ice, and make any play in the game, including goal scoring! Call us!
The two (or more) players can be blind, visually impaired willing to play blind, or sighted willing to play blind.
That's all you need, two beginner level players! Let's play some hockey!
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Here is our Sonic Hockey puck...
September 2019, we continue to improve our Sonic Hockey Puck and Goal sounding devices that fully work for both ice and inline play. Check out the Sonic Hockey Puck section of this website! We have tried out, developed and invented over sixty hockey pucks that make a sound, so blind players can hear the location. Our Sonic Hockey puck is 3.375" diameter, 14 gauge stainless steel, 1.125" high, with a 108db oscillating siren, continuous sound, powered by a 9-volt battery. The puck's name is Babs, and fully assembled, she weighs 12 oz. |
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We play hockey every day!
Please consider coming out to play hockey with us. We play at different time frames every day. We play ice hockey at the Special Events Center (the El Paso Rhinos facility) at the El Paso County Coliseum. We play inline hockey at the Nations-Tobin Sports Center, 8831 Railroad Drive. We will teach you how to skate. We will teach you how to play hockey. We provide all equipment free of charge. Come try it!
Call Danny at 915-252-1678
Hey, just a note: we know that the "correct" plural of Moose is really Moose. However, we have been saying "Mooses" for so long (since 1998) that it is just habit, and in fact, "Moose" sounds wrong at this point. So we call ourselves the Mooses!
The rest of the world can live with it.
Call Danny at 915-252-1678
Hey, just a note: we know that the "correct" plural of Moose is really Moose. However, we have been saying "Mooses" for so long (since 1998) that it is just habit, and in fact, "Moose" sounds wrong at this point. So we call ourselves the Mooses!
The rest of the world can live with it.
