Members of Sidney Crosby's Little Penguins Learn to Play program were selected to watch the team practice and to skate on the ice at Consol Energy Center.
A new generation of hockey players has grown up with some of the most advanced technology the game has ever seen. Many of them have never seen some incredible artifacts that previous generations associated with the game.
While playing for the Boston Bruins in 2013, Andrew Ference learned of a little girl who was coming to watch his team play. The five-year old child was battling a life-threatening disease and Ference was touched by her story.