Teddy Bear Toss delivery brings smiles to kids at Chinook Regional Hospital
LETHBRIDGE – With Christmas less than three weeks away, it’s clear that the kids occupying beds in the Chinook Regional Hospital’s Pediatric Ward would rather be almost anywhere else.
For one day though, maybe it’s not so bad.
Six members of the Lethbridge Hurricanes – captain Giorgio Estephan, Jake Elmer, Ryan Vandervlis, Brennan Riddle, Tate Olson and goaltender Stuart Skinner – stopped by the unit Thursday, Dec. 7, visiting children and delivering the bears that were collected during a 4-1 win over Victoria in the annual Teddy Bear Toss game on Dec. 2.
Elmer scored the goal that brought on the avalanche of bears, beating Royal’s netminder Griffen Outhouse on a short-handed breakaway in the first period.