Giving Back

Dawg Bowl XIV is officially underway! Registration is open, the silent auction has begun, pucks have dropped and the first games are in play here at the Edge Ice Arena in Littleton. It’ll be a fun filled 5 days of doing what Dawg Nation does best… playing hard, playing fair, and giving back. Come out and join us!

It’s bag stuffing night as the Dawg Nation volunteers come together to fill 1,000 player bags!  A HUGE thanks to Martinson Services for stepping up once again as the bag sponsor, and an equal thanks to Allstate for providing volunteers that actually pay us to work!!!  This is what it looks like when the community comes together for the good of all! Thank you Dawg Nation supporters!

Dawg Bowl XIV will have a pair of University of Denver national champion goaltenders battling in the Platinum Division this year.  Evan Cowley was on the 2017 Pioneers team that hoisted the trophy and will play for the Top Dawgs come next week’s tournament.  Matt Davis was on the team that won in 2022 and was the stalwart in the crease this season in 2024 to help lead the Pios t…

The Platinum Games this year won’t just be filled with professional players, there will also be some NHL officials wearing the stripes at the Dawg Bowl.  Tom Chmielewski and John Grandt both growing up in Colorado, will be officiating the Platinum Division games this year.  Chmielewski made his NHL debut in 2014 and has been refereed over 500 games.  Grandt was a linesma…

The Top Dawgs and Survivor Game jerseys are here! They are designed by first responders with details all over them to match this year’s theme!  Thanks to @k1.sportswear and @jogathletics for these awesome jerseys that are going to be seen all weekend long! The Top Dawgs jerseys will be signed by members of the team and auctioned off after their games are complete!

Smiles all around from this past weekend’s Apex 3v3 Pond Hockey Tournament!

Today was the Apex Pond 3v3 Tournament, where all proceeds go to the Arvada Hockey Financial Assistance Program! It was a day full of hockey with even an appearance from @colorado_sledhockey! Congratulations to the three division winners: 16u: The Dusters 14u: Biscuit Breaker 12u: TRL A day of fun thanks to @apex_prd for donating the ice, all the volunteers who help mak…

Kaleb Kurtz is a survivor who is on his second heart transplant and getting ready for his first Dawg Bowl appearance and Survivor Game. Just after being born, Kaleb was flown to Children’s Hospital where he was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. which required a transplant at just 3 months old. After 23 years, Kaleb was diagnosed with Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy and his conditio…

Hockey is for everyone. Different races, genders and religions. For able-bodied and disabled athletes. And in Dan Schramm’s and many others cases, for blind players as well. Getting ready for his second Dawg Bowl Schramm is inspired by hockey and what it has done for the blind community.  Dan grew up in Vail, Colorado and played competitive hockey until he was 14 year’s old when he was diagnos…

Year after year we have watched members of Dawg Nation overcome incredible odds. This year’s Survivor Game is unlike any other. Because of five heroic donors, we will witness five members of Dawg Nation take the ice after receiving a heart transplant. Patrick, Lily, Sebastian, Kaleb, and Nigel all have received a second chance at life and will proudly skate next Saturday because of the gift of …

Dave Carr is about to make his third survivor game appearance and quite frankly, it is a miracle. On June 5th, 2020 Dave was in a head on car accident in which he was nearly killed. Just a few weeks after the accident, Dave was at the Dawg Bowl X where he was completely surprised with a check to help defray his medical bills. “I was in complete shock, not surprised by how wonderful Dawg Nation…

Written by Jared Miller: Hanna Gootee loves hockey. For one, she gets to follow in her dad’s footsteps and two she loves the passion that people involved in the sport have for the game. But not only for the game, for the community that is brought together for a common love. That is how Hanna found Dawg Nation. Hanna was diagnosed with cancer late in 2021.  After playing in their Survivor Game…