Christmas With the Bruins

Not even a howling wind of 50 km/h could slow down the Estevan Bruin players and fans from celebrating the end of the Halliburton's Back the Bruins week with the the Christmas Party at Rusty Duce Park.

Santa Claus made an appearance at the party and offered horse drawn sleigh rides to all of the kids. While some of the kids took advantage of the sleigh rides, the other kids jumped at the opportunity to play street hockey with the Bruin players. (and one play by play announcer)

Even though the evening was aimed for the kids, the Bruins players found themselves feeling the Christmas spirit. Assistant Matthew Dochylo felt like a kid again at the party. "A lot of us aren't with us aren't with our family and friends, so we come out to an evening like this with the kids and we had a good time."






Dochylo felt the evening is a great way to encourage kids to come to the Bruins games throughout the season. "We get were playing street hockey with the kids and they'll tell their mom and dads they want to come to our games so it was a lot of fun."

Bruins Defenceman Denin Boesch felt the entire Halliburton Back the Bruins week was a worthwhile experience. "Little kids are always looking up to us, so doing anything in the community is good. We have a lot of sponsors in the community who supports, so it's good to give back."

Taylor Reich is one of three Bruins who are from Estevan and feels it's very special visiting schools, like Bruin players did in the past. "Once in awhile you get a memory of a Bruin player visiting you at school and giving you tickets for the weekends game and it's really nice to do the same for the kids now."

The Bruins will have one more home game this week before they enjoy the Christmas holidays with a matchup against the Melfort Mustangs on Saturday. The Bruins first home game after the Christmas holiday will be on Sunday January 1 against the Weyburn Red Wings.

After the Xmas party I had a chance to speak with Matthew Dochylo

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My hockey gloves, the players were giving me a hard time on old they are. Denin Boesch and Cole Olson were happy to sign them.