If anyone harbored any notions that hockey won’t ever catch on in the “hood,” those notions were thoroughly thrashed by several individuals who attended the kickoff event held in a congressional hearing room on Capitol Hill.
They included college aspiring youths such as Dishawn Jackson, 17, a 6-foot-3 center not for anyone’s basketball team, but as a member of one of the after-school hockey teams run by the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation in Philadelphia.
