Good Sports: The return of the Fresno Falcons

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- While the NHL's champion vie for the coveted Stanley Cup. A caller iteration of the Fresno Falcons is practicing retired astatine Cary Park. This time, connected rollerblades.

In January, Fresno State grad Matt Braun decided to commencement up a roller hockey team.

"Moved backmost present and realized determination is perfectly zero roller hockey present conscionable crystal hockey," Braun said.

Throughout his clip playing successful Southern California, Braun met North American roller hockey title president, Daryn Goodwin.

A Visalia autochthonal and erstwhile Fresno Falcon who acceptable the squad up with immoderate throwbacks.

"Cool to spot however large the assemblage rallies astir this jersey you cognize due to the fact that it means truthful overmuch excessively truthful galore people," Braun said.

There are 4 players connected the squad whose dads played for the Falcons.

"They were benignant of the ones that paved the mode for each of america truthful we decided arsenic a tribute to them we'd spell with the aged greenish and golden jerseys," Falcons goalie Joel Heintz said.

"This is what my dada wore so, 22,"Falcons near helping JJ Barlow said.

"To beryllium capable to deterioration the fig that is similar the household fig it's sweet. It's sick," Falcons halfway Jason Johnson said.

Only fewer months in, the Falcons already person immoderate hardware.

Winning the Irvine determination astatine the extremity of April.

"It says we're connected the close track," Heintz said.

"We telephone it the Fresno flu. We get determination and past tin ne'er travel location with the golden truthful this past clip being capable to get the golden it was a bully feeling and hopefully we tin support it rolling," Johnson said.

The Falcons besides anticipation to support things rolling with an authoritative signifier facility.

"We person a surface, we person boards, we person glass, we person a rink, and fundamentally we're conscionable looking for a installation to enactment it in," Heintz said.

And Braun is anxious to dispersed the crippled crossed the valley.

"I anticipation to person astatine slightest 2 men's teams, I privation to get a younker programme going, a hockey league here," Braun said.

"You get the kids playing, the crippled gets passed down," Heintz said.

Just arsenic their dads passed the crippled down to them, the Falcons are hopeful to bash the aforesaid for generations to come.

"Once you get progressive successful that - it's hard to leave," Johnson said.

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