Jonathan Trzop:

In May 2022, I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 19 years old. By the time doctors confirmed it, I had about 8 percent vision in each eye, roughly 10 percent combined. I remember walking out of that appointment feeling like my entire future had been flipped upside down.

That morning, I drove myself to college like I always had.  I went from driving, training, and planning my career to suddenly needing rides and rethinking everything.

In middle school and high school, I was always bumping into things, missing obstacles, running into wet floor signs. I just thought I was clumsy or not paying attention. Doctors noticed black spots on my retina as early as 2015, but referrals moved slowly.

By the time I finally had a proper visual field test, the damage was already significant.

The strange thing about retinitis pigmentosa is that what you can’t see doesn’t look blurry, it’s just gone. You don’t realize what’s missing until it starts affecting your life in bigger ways.

Hockey has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I started skating around six or seven years old and played minor hockey through my early teens. When I was 12, I started officiating a path inspired by my uncle, who spent decades refereeing major junior hockey, international tournaments, and even the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

After my diagnosis, I thought hockey was over with playing or referring.

That summer I tried playing with a local ball hockey league. I was introduced to Simon Richard, an assistant captain with Canada’s national blind hockey team. We met for a coffee at Tim Hortons before work. He told me about Blind Hockey and invited me to come try a camp.

By late fall, I was back on the ice—this time discovering blind hockey for the first time. In March 2023, I competed in the Open Division at the Canadian National Blind Hockey Tournament.I fell in love with the game immediately.

I focused heavily on my skating. Without full vision, edge work, balance, and tight turns matter more than ever. Years of officiating had already helped develop my skating, and blind hockey pushed it even further.

By Nationals in 2023, I knew this was something I wanted to pursue seriously. It’s been incredible to be a member on the Canadian National Blind Hockey Tournament. Simon is now my biggest inspiration in Blind Hockey that I look up to. He continues to make sure that I stay positive and that I keep working.

Today, my life is busy. I balance school, full-time work, hockey, and participation in a clinical trial aimed at slowing, or stopping – the progression of my vision loss. Every three months, I travel for long days of testing which includes visual field exams, dark adaptation tests, dilations.

If everything continues to go well, I may undergo surgery designed to halt further vision loss in one eye. Nothing is guaranteed, but even the possibility is something I’m grateful for.

This season, Blind Hockey came to Moncton and it was amazing. Family, former teammates, and fellow officials got to see the game for the first time.

It was incredible to see the feature on Sportsnet. If sharing my story helps even one person believe there’s still a path forward on or off the ice then it’s worth telling.

Simon Richard:

I was born with Aniridia, which means I have no iris which is the coloured ring-shaped muscle at the front of the eye that controls the size of the pupil. This makes me legally blind with blurred vision and sensitive to light.

 At 5 years old my friends were starting to play traditional hockey so I also wanted to start playing. It was very hard to play at first as I had a hard time seeing the puck and following the play. As my dad realized my struggles he found a way to teach me the concepts of the game. I can still picture in my head my dad sitting at the kitchen table with me and his coaching board explaining the positioning of each player on the ice and the concepts and strategies of the game. He had a game that he called “Where is the puck?”, where he placed some x’s and o’s on his board and I had to identify where the puck was.

This is how I started to understand the patterns of the game and how I started to develop my hockey IQ and start improving on the ice. I still play traditional hockey to this day with friends multiple times a week and it helps with my training for Blind Hockey events as the game is fast and it keeps me sharp.

I immersed myself in Para sport when I started playing goalball at the age of 9 years old. As I started to develop in that sport and realized that I had some potential I started to dream about competing at the Paralympic Games at 12 years old. I just missed out on my original goal of making the team for the 2012 London Paralympic Games (at 18), but it just gave me more fuel to keep pushing myself harder to be the best athlete I could be. When I was selected for the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games it was literally a dream that came true. It was and always is a true honour to wear that maple leaf on your jersey. We really feel that the whole nation is behind us. I cherished every moment at the Games.

I have really enjoyed my time playing goalball, but I have decided to give myself another challenge by playing Blind Hockey and help where I can to grow the sport. I have now been on the Canadian National Blind Hockey Team for eight years. The goal is to grow the sport enough to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games and establish a professional Blind Hockey League. In my professional career I am also program manager at Parasport New Brunswick. We are trying to grow all the Paralympic sports in the province so that more kids and adults get to play and have a positive experience in Para sports.

Having the Eastern Regional Blind Hockey Tournament hosted in my hometown of Moncton has truly been a remarkable honor. Being able to play alongside my local teammate and member of the Canadian National Blind Hockey Team Jonathan Trzop is a lot of fun. The connection to Hockey Day in Canada made it extra special to be able to showcase our passion for hockey and highlight the incredible potential within our Blind Hockey community. It was incredibly humbling to represent Moncton and the entire Blind Hockey community during the Hockey Day in Canada festivities by taking part in the Hockey Day Celebrity Game and joining the Sportsnet panel. I really hope this awareness leads us to finding new Blind Hockey players across New Brunswick and beyond.

Richard says Paralympics are ultimate goal for Blind Hockey: Sportnet

Sportsnet feature on Moncton – Growing the sport of Blind Hockey: Youtube

Only two years ago, Corbin Johnson played his first Blind Hockey game. Fast forward to today, he has proven that Blind Hockey has changed his life by helping to spearhead a major partnership and take on the role of program coordinator in Victoria BC.  Corbin’s story in his own words:  

I was born with Stargardt’s disease, a degenerative condition that affects my central vision. It’s something I’ve lived with my entire life with my sight slowly fading over time. The best way I can describe it is like someone taking off their glasses and seeing the world go slightly blurry. My peripheral vision is still intact, but my center vision has deteriorated.  

The interesting thing is that because it happened gradually, my brain learned to fill in the gaps. Doctors used to tell me I should have a gray blob in the middle of my vision, but I never saw it that way. My brain just adapted. It compensates by filling in missing details, so I can still look forward and function almost like anyone else. It’s amazing how adaptable the human brain is.  

There are moments when I’m reminded how blind I am — like trying to find something on a grocery store shelf — but most of the time, I don’t even think about it. This is just my normal.  

Growing up, I refused to let my vision define me, which I know now that there’s a certain humility to embracing it. I was fiercely independent and didn’t like to hear the word “can’t.” If someone told me I couldn’t do something, that only made me want to prove them wrong. My parents knew that if I set my mind to something, I was going to make it happen.  

I was drawn to independent sports like skateboarding and snowboarding. I loved hockey, but I never pursued it because I couldn’t see the puck clearly, and I didn’t want to rely on others to get to the rink. Still, that love for the game never really left me.  

School wasn’t my strong suit — not because I wasn’t capable, but because it just didn’t fit the way I learned. I was outgoing, creative, and always on the move. By 15, I was ready to see the world and even lived in Mexico for 8 years.   

But no matter where I went or what I did, the common thread was connecting with people.   

A few years ago, I joined the CNIB. I started working with the philanthropy team, building connections and raising funds for programs that support people with sight loss.  

Through my work at the CNIB, I learned that it’s okay to be open about living with vision loss. It’s okay to use a white cane. In fact, the first time I started using my cane regularly was empowering. It wasn’t a symbol of weakness — it was a sign of self-acceptance. It also made life easier. People understand when they see the cane. It removes the awkwardness and lets me navigate the world with confidence.  

I also discovered assistive technology that changed everything. Simple things like screen magnifiers or large monitors made work so much easier. I no longer had to strain my eyes.  

Around that same time, I stumbled onto something that would completely change my life again — Blind Hockey.  

Despite being legally blind my whole life, I had no idea Blind Hockey existed. I was looking for a fun way to stay active, so I reached out to BC Blind Sports. They told me about Canadian Blind Hockey and that a local team, the Eclipse, practiced just down the street from my office every Friday and Saturday.  

I went to one of their last games of the season to check it out, and within minutes I knew —  I was hooked.  

That passion carried over into my work in philanthropy. I started thinking about how I could help grow Blind Hockey’s visibility and funding. I began reaching out to contacts with the Vancouver Canucks and the Canucks for Kids Fund, trying to open doors for Canadian Blind Hockey.  

That led to meetings with Canucks alumni who joined us for a Blind Hockey showcase game in Victoria. We met with Canadian Blind Hockey and from that moment, the Canucks became true supporters. We worked together to create opportunities that would help Blind Hockey grow, and the partnership has continued to gain momentum ever since.  

Today, I am thrilled to be the Program Coordinator for the Victoria Blind Hockey team, welcoming new and returning players to the ice. I’m still celebrating the puck drop from the 2025 Western Regional Blind Hockey tournament, where the Canucks announced their partnership for Canadian Blind Hockey. To learn more, check out this article on NHL.com   

Finally, one of the things I gave up pursuing with vision loss was photography. As I was looking for funding opportunities I came across this grant from TELUS STORYHIVE.    

I’m directing, producing, and editing Where’s the Puck? — A Blind Hockey documentary and we just launched a crowdfund on Seed&Spark to help us bring in professional support for post-production.   

We’ve reached 60% of our $5,000 goal, but Seed&Spark only releases funds if we hit at least 80%.  Here is a link to the campaign: https://seedandspark.com/fund/wheres-the-puck  

Once complete, the series will premiere at community screenings, be broadcast on TELUS Optik TV, released on the TELUS YouTube channel, and submitted to festivals across Canada.  

Thanks for your support!  

This year Canadian Blind Hockey wants to highlight one of our latest coaches Philip Giammarioli! His family may be newer to Blind Hockey, but they’ve already become a familiar name at our programs and events:

I first learned to skate at a very young age on the frozen creek behind our neighbour’s house in a village 200km NE of Edmonton. My earliest childhood winter memories are of my brother clearing the snow from that narrow tributary in order to usher me back and forth mimicking the strides of Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier. Growing up during the Oilers’ dynasty of the 1980’s made it simple for me to become passionate about hockey.  I started playing organized hockey shortly thereafter, gearing up in the stove heated rink shack at the local outdoor rink where a few of my friends’ hockey crazed dads decided to teach us about the game. Over four decades later and a journey through organized minor hockey, University intramurals, inline summer hockey, and the eventuality of decades of beer league, life has come full circle. Though the old rink shack has been replaced by state of the art athletic facilities, I too understand what it is to be a hockey crazed dad passionate about teaching the game.

I played hockey my entire life but it wasn’t until my wife Renee and I had kids that I decided to become a hockey coach.  I wanted to be involved in every facet of my boys’ hockey development to ensure that they would have the same opportunities as every other child on the ice. My sons, Dante and Lorenzo, were born with Autosomal Dominant Stargardt-like Macular Dystrophy – a hereditary degenerative eye disease that would eventually lead to significant loss of their central vision. This eye condition is prevalent in my wife’s family and typically begins affecting vision after childhood.  I knew in advance that, at some point, how Dante and Lorenzo played sports was going to change and I wanted to make sure that they could enjoy hockey for as long as they possibly could without obstacles or the stigma of playing with a disability.

On November 1st, 2022, Canadian Blind Hockey was hosting a “Try Blind Hockey” event in Edmonton where several Oilers Alumni would be taking part, so we decided to attend.  When I heard that the boys would get to take the ice with Kevin Lowe, Paul Coffee, Charlie Huddy and more, I was transported right back to my childhood imitating those very players hoisting the Stanley Cup. Dante and Lorenzo were more excited to play hooky from school the day after Halloween in anticipation of a candy hangover.  This became our foray into the blind hockey community. The boys got to meet Jason Yuha and Tristan Lindberg wearing their gold medals from the most recent victory over the US in the Blind Hockey International Series (it’s funny to think that within a few short years, Dante would be a teammate of theirs). I met with Matt Morrow and Luca DeMontis and they encouraged me to register the boys in some of the larger CBH events and in March of 2023 we took part in the Canadian Blind Hockey National Tournament in Toronto.  Since then, we’ve jumped head first into the blind hockey world with CBH – Dante, Lorenzo, and Renee as players and me as a coach.

Coaching Blind Hockey has been a very rewarding experience for me. I have had the privilege of coaching all levels and abilities with CBH, from Children/Youth to Adult Development to the High Performance/National Team players.  I’ve been coaching traditional hockey for many years which allows me to impart a lot of game knowledge and skills development strategies to the blind hockey community.  In return, coaching with Canadian Blind Hockey has helped me evolve as a coach, teaching me to develop different methods on how to adapt to the nuances of playing with a visual impairment and strategizing for the adapted rules of the game.

Since being introduced to Blind Hockey in the fall of 2022, every member of my family has had the pleasure of becoming fully immersed in the community. Coaching for CBH has become my way of giving back; it is my greatest honor as a mentor and leader in the sport of hockey.

I started hockey when I was 8 years old. I was playing a lot of pond hockey, organized rink hockey and went on to play in a league. My vision was starting to go, due to RP around the age of 13 – 14. It was really the night vision going first, I still had good daytime vision so it didn’t affect me playing sports.

I eventually stopped playing hockey and moved from Pugwash to Halifax where around the age of 25 I connected with Blind Sports Nova Scotia and got involved with Goalball. I tried other sports like track and field and Blind Bowling, but that almost got me kicked out of the building because I accidentally through the ball over 3 lanes – so I figured I better stick with Goalball!

I went on to play many regional tournaments and I played for the National Team. In 2001 I went with the team to Spartanburg, South Carolina where we won a gold medal for Team Canada during the Pan American Games. My goalball career lasted a good 20 years and I still played a tournament at the end of last year when I was invited out because why not!

Sometimes when I reflect on that journey, I put one of those medals in my hand and it takes me back to the sounds and feels of the environment, the sound of the crowd, the excitement. It’s amazing.

In 2017 when I was done playing Goalball for the most part, I participated in the first program practice for the Nova Scotia See Kings. The first year was really just learning how to play the game again, getting all the goalie gear on and I was lucky enough to have a great goalie coach

Looking back, I was playing goalie with a vision impairment up until I was 20 or so, and although I could see better, but I would see the puck being shot off but lose it halfway. Now I was learning to do it with a much lower level of vision.

After my competitive career in Goalball, I quickly set my sights on trying out for the Canadian National Blind Hockey Team and I was drafted in 2022 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I’m so grateful that over the past few years, I was able to compete in the Blind Hockey League and be named to Canada’s National Blind Hockey team once again. I want to continue to compete in this sport as long as I can. It just gives me incentive, incentive to keep a healthy lifestyle and to show my kids a pathway to work hard, train hard and get rewarded in the end.

June is Deafblind Awareness Month and we interviewed Blind Hockey player Ryan Kucy from Sherwood Park Alberta about his deafblindness.

I was born with Bilateral Optic Atrophy which is a condition that impacts the optic nerve. I see things in front of me quite well, but I don’t have a lot of peripheral vision. I can read text that’s only slightly larger than average and can play video games as long as I’m close enough to the screen.

Honestly, I don’t think about my vision a lot. If you ask me though, I’d rather have my hearing back.

My hearing loss was acquired and got progressively worse over 10 years.. There are a few potential root causes of my hearing loss.

My hearing has thankfully stabilized greatly since I reached adulthood. I have one cochlear implant in my right ear now and likely will get a second in my left at some point.  I have approximately between 5 and 10 percent hearing left in that ear which has fluctuated a little bit back and forth.

I have been playing Blind Hockey since I was 15 and started attending Canadian Blind hockey tournaments when I was 23. I’ve skated since I was 3 or 4 years old and I played two years of sighted hockey when I was young. I’ve also played on a few sighted shinny teams. I believe I have now played in 10 national tournaments, over 4 regional tournaments and 1 tournament in Chicago!

Everything from my job and the small wrestling career I have can be credited to the confidence that playing Blind Hockey has given me and that confidence largely comes because the people in the community believe in each other and want to help each other.

I have been a huge fan of pro wrestling ever since I was 10 or 11. I would sneak onto the TV just to watch them wrestle. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson got me hooked! As a person with vision and hearing loss, I didn’t get to have big dreams like a lot of young boys and girls. I couldn’t dream of being in the NHL, playing baseball, or becoming a police officer or pilot. I had the personality type that wanted to do something exciting and make a difference, but unfortunately, I was missing the main senses. I think I latched onto wrestling because I felt it was something I could do.

A couple of years ago, I started researching athletes with cochlear implants, and I found them playing some really rough sports. I realized that my own doubts and fears, not the CI, were holding me back. I talked to my audiologist, who gave me the green light to pursue wrestling. At the time, I was told that the CI is not supposed to put up barriers; it’s supposed to take them down, but I had let mine become a barrier.

Wrestling has helped me gain confidence and self-belief, and I’m extremely grateful that things have worked out so well. When my partner and I come out, I get chills every time the crowd starts chanting for us.

Before joining the CBH community, I was very isolated. They showed me that it was possible to be successful as a blind or partially sighted person. For the first time, I was exposed to people who had found ways to overcome their challenges to play a sport they loved. You are going to be around people who have similar experiences to you, who understand the challenges you have faced and who will empathize with you but also give you a bit of a kick when you need it. You’ll learn to communicate and function as a teammate, an important skill in a five-man unit on the ice working towards a single goal. That in itself is a huge life skill and very important.

Whether you’ve played before, have never played, lost your sight and stopped playing, or are rediscovering the game, you’ll feel welcome. You’ll feel like you’ve accomplished something, and you’ll feel like you’re no longer alone.

Believe in yourself and live your life on your terms, especially when it comes to meeting people. Advocate for yourself when meeting others. Communicate in your own way and make sure they use it. I do a lot of text communication, but blind hockey and wrestling taught me that people learn to respect those who communicate in unique ways. Ultimately, you know the best way to communicate, so make it clear. Others will do their best to help and pick up on your challenges.

June is National Indigenous History Month

Blind Hockey Athletes Meghan Mahon and Cassandra Ruttle Share Their Heritage and Drive Impact through Sport.

Meghan Mahon is a Paralympic athlete known across Canada’s Goalball world as a member of the national team and is an incredible player in the Blind Hockey community. The Ruttle’s are also a known family across the Blind Hockey community, with the youngest member, Cassandra rising to a promising career in sport just like her mentor Meghan. Not only allies in sport, they share profound respect and interest for their indigenous background and history. Meghan is Métis, and Cassandra is First Nations.

Meghan: Growing up, I wasn’t as openly connected to my Métis culture. We knew that we were Métis, but also living in northern Ontario, we just kind of embraced a lot of Indigenous ways of living naturally, like living on and with the land. As I moved out west, I grew more curious about my own culture and I was making connections with other women and youth in sport. As my mentor relationship grew with Cassandra across Goalball and Blind Hockey, when we discovered she is also Indigenous, it was one of those realizations where we realized this is even more powerful than any of us expected. We have this age gap, and we have this great mentee/mentor relationship, we take part in the same sports and now there’s this cultural piece. It’s so much more than being in sport, it’s a powerful representation that no matter how many barriers or stereotypes are put on a person, you’re able to carry it and let it empower you! It’s pretty cool to look at each other and have that understanding that we’re doing it for our own generations.

The opportunities for sport organizations and teams to support indigenous athletes begin at the very start. Representation needs to be embraced at all stages from grassroots to professional and it’s about bridging the gap between sport and culture.

Organizations need to recognize what it means for people are who are living at the intersect of Indigenous culture who are blind or partially sighted. The occurrences of sight loss in Indigenous culture are higher due to health, barriers or access to healthcare so there’s an entire population who’s not getting to enjoy the game that we all enjoy. So, how can we bring this sport into people’s communities and break down that barrier of access to having to travel to a major city to take part, and how can we integrate it into programs that already exist?

I’m proud to be a champion, and it’s going to be continued work and advocacy through my work and in the sports I play. Canadian Blind Hockey is celebrating 10 years of the Summer Development Camp and I was at the very first one! As soon as I attended, I was hooked. I had been playing hockey in the sighted world my entire life.

Now it’s really something to see all the youth who are attending these tournaments. I feel like a proud hockey parent without being a hockey parent. Ha!

I’m grateful I can participate in Blind Hockey while pursuing my career and playing on Canada’s Women’s Goalball Team. I feel like Blind Hockey is a community that I feel like I can leave for however long, and come back and feel like it hasn’t been a day that’s gone by.

As for my future as an Indigenous Blind Hockey player, I’d like to see growth across geographical representation. It’s about stepping outside of those hub cities that have programs and bringing them to rural areas encouraging diverse participation.

What can sports organizations do as action toward reconciliation?

I think it comes down to, really, two key pieces. The first one is internal learning. It’s learning about and asking as a sport organization, are we truly creating a culturally informed and safe environment?

People need to feel that this is a space that they are welcome. Sport historically can also be something that is a discriminatory place. And people can very much steer away from it for those factors. So learn about how to create that safe space and prove that it is a safe space.

The second piece is geographical depth. How are we working alongside communities, and not saying “ hey here’s our program in a box, and this is going to work for you.” But how are we working alongside communities to create something that really works for that area and to co-create or support what they already have in place? To just be a resource for them to be able to build what they have to offer to their communities, and not have to own it. Put some of your humility at the forefront and know you don’t need to be experts in it all, in this case Indigenous communities. What does your accessible sport look like for your group, your community, your organization, and the people that you serve in these other communities?

Cassandra Ruttle:

I have my first international trip with Goalball this week, so it’s going to be amazing. I started when I was, like, really young, around 6, and then I came back around when I was 13, and I’ve been doing it ever since. I first started Blind Hockey 4 years ago, I love the National Tournament and I’m part of the Calgary Seeing Ice Dogs, doing my best to make it out weekly!

My dad is a sixties scoop survivor. This was the large-scale removal or “scooping” of Indigenous children from their homes, communities and families of birth through the 1960s, and their subsequent adoption into predominantly non-Indigenous, middle-class families across the United States and Canada. This experience left many adoptees with a lost sense of cultural identity.

So I didn’t really grow up learning our culture, because he never really knew his culture, so over the past, like, 2 or 3 years, we’ve kind of been getting more into learning about the Indigenous culture and everything else around it, Indigenous events, Pow Wows, smudging ceremonies etc.  During these significant dates like National History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 we do our best to reflect and honour tradition.

My relationship with Meghan as my mentor and friend is really important. We are both Indigenous, and we can show other Indigenous youth with disabilities that it is possible to participate in non- Indigenous sport, that it’s an available option. The issue is, it’s not always accessible. That’s what we’re working to change.

I’m only 17, but I’m constantly working at getting better at my current Blind Hockey skills and learning more. I’m enjoying watching the younger generation come up and hopefully, we see more Indigenous youth come out and give it a try because Blind Hockey is a really great community.  I would like to see us go to them; they can’t always find us in major cities, so perhaps to support indigenous athletes, we bring a Try-it session closer to their community, to the reserves. Sometimes they’ve never even thought of the experience to play a sport like Blind Hockey, so let’s give them the chance.

Canadian Blind Hockey aims to recruit more Indigenous players as we outreach across the nation. We hope that Meghan and Cassandra’s stories can inspire others to participate and take action. Canadianblindhockey.com

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Learn about the impact of Blind Hockey in Brandon’s own words:

“I was diagnosed when I was 3. My family and I were out camping, and my dad and I were playing around with a football at dusk and I kept getting hit in the face with the ball. A big factor of RP is night vision loss and I was diagnosed after a bunch of tests. Back in 2016 or so, I was technically deemed legally blind, I was in grade 8. My vision has gotten worse over time but it’s stable now. I was playing regular hockey up until about 2 or 3 years ago when I outgrew the minor hockey team in my town.  Now all I play is Blind Hockey.

After development camp in 2017, my father and I realized there’s probably more people in Newfoundland who need the opportunity of Blind Hockey but don’t even know it’s an option so we started up our program, the Newfoundland Eyelanders that year. We pride ourselves on trying to make it as accessible as possible.  In May 2023, we went to Charlottetown in PEI and we held the first Try It session there because PEI is the only province without a program.

Blind Hockey means a lot to me, it’s basically restructured my entire lift at this point, with about 25 hours of training a week, whether it’s strength and conditioning or practicing. It makes me feel more optimistic about the future, because I know there are more accessible sports being created for people with visual impairments. I have a lot of hope for the future.

My hope for the future, personally, is to be on Team Canada, I’ve been working extremely hard and working towards that, it is my end goal.

For our team and the community, I hope it grows into a larger more accessible sport and more people get the opportunity to play Blind Hockey.”

Update: Canadian Blind Hockey wants to extend a huge congratulations to Brandon Joy. Since this story was published in December 2023, he has made Team Canada and was recently awarded Conception Bay South’s Senior Male Athlete of the Year award!

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