PLYMOUTH, Minn. - Some of the best sled hockey teams are competing in Plymouth this weekend in the eighth annual USA Sled Classic.
Back in 2010, there were only four teams competing. Today, there are 28. While most of the players have disabilities, you'd never really know because they are such amazing athletes.
Brody Roybowl has been playing hockey since he was seven years old.
"I was 15 years-old when I was on the 2014 USA Team," he said.
According to USA Hockey, the winger is the youngest known player in the history of the sport to have a gold medal.
"It was an honor to represent my country – especially at such a young age. It was weird going from being in a classroom with all of my friends and being over at the Games representing my country and winning gold.
Roybowl is now training for his second Olympic appearance and is one of more than 300 athletes in the Twin Cities metro for the event.
"It's mostly US and Canada based players, but we have everything," J.J. O'Connor, USA Hockey. "We have boys and girls, men and women, all levels. We have players that are in need of pushers – they need help to propel and we also have players at the highest levels that will represent the countries in Paralympics."
USA Hockey allows all able-body people to play, but they must play inside a sled.
"You can take the best NHL player, you can give me a 20 man roster of the best NHL players that ever played and we put them in a sled and I bet they don't cross the blue line about these guys," O'Connor added. "We use the word disabled or disable-hockey because it's what people can understand and recognize it is something different, but really there is nothing disabled about it."
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