NHL Foundation receives $75,000 donation for girls’ hockey

NEW YORK — “Inside Out 2,” the follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Inside Out,” screened for more than 100 girls youth hockey players Thursday at the Paley Center for Media in New York.

The special display also included a significant $75,000 donation from the Congressional Hockey Challenge to the NHL Foundation’s Empowerment Grant Program for Girls Hockey.

“I think it’s great just because you’re making the sport accessible,” Haley Skarupa, Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion, now ambassador for the NHL Foundation in the U.S. and chief scout for the U.S. Women’s National Team, said of the donation. before the screening. “Hockey, as we all know, is hard to get into because the equipment is expensive, everything is expensive, so having those events, clinics, learning opportunities and free equipment to get there is super important.”

The mega-hit movie sequel, like the original, revolves around the emotions of Riley, who is a youth hockey player himself. In the original, joining a youth hockey team helped Riley cope with her grief after her family moved from Minnesota to San Francisco. The sequel features a now teenage Riley coming into her own on the ice.

The film features the voice of Kendall Coyne Schofield, member of the 2018 gold medal-winning USA Women’s National Team and captain of PWHL champion Minnesota.