The Activity Room Learns How to Celebrate

For the past few months, we've been playing all different kinds of hockey in the Activity Room, from knee-hockey to street hockey outside at the park.

When we first started playing, for most of the kids hockey was a foreign game to them, one that they'd heard of but didn't know much about. After just a couple of days of playing, however, many of them were hooked.

However, we'd never really practiced one of the most important things (kidding, but it is important) about hockey: how to properly celebrate scoring a goal.

After most goals, the players come together in a pile and tap each other on the helmet; nothing major. But we wanted the kids to get some practice having fun after scoring a goal, so we went on to YouTube to find audio clips of NHL goal horns, the extremely loud (and sometimes obnoxious) sounds and songs played after every home-team goal.

We chose the horns of the hometown Boston Bruins and the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, cued them up to play when Adem, Ibrahim or Nebil scored, and then just let the kids go nuts.

Below are two videos of the goals and the subsequent joyous celebrations.

Needless to say, these youngsters are well on their way to NHL stardom.