Event Details
Event Overview
The 2022 Disabled Hockey Festival will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania April 7-10 and April 21-24, 2022. Blind, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Special, Standing Amputee & Warrior Hockey will be featured the first weekend. Sled Hockey will take place the second weekend, with the 2022 Sled Hockey National Championship taking center stage. All sled hockey games will be streamed live on HockeyTV.com. Pittsburgh is proud to be the host of the 2022 Disabled Hockey Festival and proudly welcomes all six disabled hockey disciplines to the Steel City:
- Vision Impaired/Blind Hockey
- Deaf/Hearing Impaired Hockey
- Sled Hockey
- Special Hockey
- Standing/Amputee Hockey
- Disabled Veteran Hockey
Games will be played at three rinks: UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, RMU Island Sports Center, and Baierl Ice Complex.
The largest disabled event of its kind and one of USA Hockey’s most significant events each season, the USA hockey Disabled Hockey Festival brings together all six disabled hockey disciplines, now spanning two weekends.
The inaugural Festival in 2005 included 24 teams and nearly 300 players. The mission of the Festival is to provide a fun and exciting weekend of hockey in a grand event as well as promote and grow disabled hockey throughout the country.