Agincourt Recreation Centre
31 Glen Watford Drive
Scarborough, ON M1S 1A1
Canada
www.iceowls.ca
E-mail: ed.parenteau@rogers.com

The Ice Owls is a Toronto hockey team of blind and visually impaired players who have varying degrees of severe vision loss, along with a small number of sighted players. All games are played against sighted teams.

The puck is the critical difference in visually impaired hockey. It’s a thick plastic wheel, about ten centimetres across, filled with hardware. It rattles as it moves across the ice. While some of the players have partial vision and can see the puck in addition to hearing it, the sound is particularly important for the goaltenders, who are usually completely blind.