Rod Braceful’s first on-ice hockey experience was at Jack Adams Arena in Detroit after his godmother secretly stepped in and signed him up for learn-to-play lessons at four years old. Barbara Yancy-Braceful, Braceful’s mother and longtime school educator, didn’t think that he was serious about wanting to play hockey, so she didn’t sign him up.
Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin and former Ottawa Senators winger Alex DeBrincat will skate in a star-studded charity hockey game to support Senators assistant coach Bob Jones, who was diagnosed with ALS during the 2022-23 NHL season. Larkin and DeBrincat are now teammates after DeBrincat was traded to Detroit and signed a four-year, $31.5-million