SPRINGFIELD, Mass./PALM DESERT, Calif. … The American Hockey League and Coachella Valley Firebirds can be welcoming Anson Carter and Anthony Stewart from the Nationwide Hockey League Participant Inclusion Coalition for a group go to at Abraham Lincoln Elementary Faculty in Palm Desert, Calif., as a part of the occasions on the 2025 AHL All-Star Traditional offered by Highlight 29 On line casino.
Carter and Stewart can be joined by a number of of this yr’s AHL All-Stars to take part in a ball hockey clinic on Monday, Feb. 3. On the conclusion of the occasion, the Firebirds will donate the rink set-up and equipment to the varsity.
Now a studio analyst for Sportsnet and the NHL on TNT, Anson Carter started his professional profession with the AHL’s Portland Pirates – the place he was an AHL All-Star throughout the 1996-97 season – and went on to play 674 video games within the NHL. Anthony Stewart was a first-round choose within the 2003 NHL Draft who performed 237 video games within the AHL together with 262 contests within the NHL; he additionally serves because the chairman of Hockey Equality.
The NHL Participant Inclusion Coalition (NHL PIC) is a gaggle of present and former NHL gamers and ladies’s skilled hockey gamers who work to advance equality and inclusion within the sport of hockey on and off the ice. Coalition members are advisors, ambassadors and catalysts within the rising motion for inclusion throughout the hockey group. Since 2020, members of the NHL PIC have taken motion to strengthen cultures all through the sport by internet hosting group occasions, offering training, investing in grassroots applications and utilizing their platforms to champion constructive change.
In operation since 1936, the American Hockey League serves as the highest growth league for the gamers, coaches, managers, executives, broadcasters and employees of all 32 Nationwide Hockey League groups. Practically 90 p.c of at this time’s NHL gamers are American Hockey League graduates, and greater than 100 honored members of the Hockey Corridor of Fame hung out within the AHL of their careers.
