The heat did little to lessen the enthusiasm of the players. Alejandro Cade\u00f1as\u2019 14-year-old sister, Sofia, couldn\u2019t believe she was on the same rink with members of Puerto Rico\u2019s women\u2019s team that won the 2025 IIHF Women\u2019s 3×3 Series in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so incredible for me,” Sofia said, “because having played with girls at that level, it\u2019s really good to learn from that level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angel Miranda said he\u2019s now a hockey fan after watching the Puerto Rican men\u2019s team and the local inline squad skate to a 16-16 overtime draw.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first time I see it, and I like it,\u201d the 49-year-old from Isabela, Puerto Rico said. \u201cPuerto Ricans are going to love hockey. Why? I guarantee they\u2019re going to love it because there\u2019s a lot of action.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Fiesta de Hockey has also been meaningful for the Puerto Rico\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s players, many of whom live in the United States.<\/p>\n
For Estela Vazquez, a 14-year-old goalie from New York City, it\u2019s the first trip to the island of her grandparents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes me feel like I\u2019m wearing the jersey with more pride,\u201d said Estela, who was named the best goalie in the 3×3 tournament in Buenos Aires. \u201cNow I know who I\u2019m representing even more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heat did little to lessen the enthusiasm of the players. Alejandro Cade\u00f1as\u2019 14-year-old sister, Sofia, couldn\u2019t believe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-850836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}