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NHL superstars Crosby and MacKinnon give African hockey team a once in a lifetime experience
Tim Hortons

NHL superstars Crosby and MacKinnon give African hockey team a once in a lifetime experience

This is incredible. Do yourself a favor and watch this.

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When you think of international hockey, the last place you may think of is a place like Kenya. The African nation has just one ice rink and, in fact, just one team: the Kenya Ice Lions.

With no other team to play in their home country, Tim Hortons flew the entire team out to Toronto to play an exhibition game against a local men’s league team. To everyone’s surprise though, the Ice Lions were about to add two NHL superstars to their lineup: Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon.

Check out this awesome video of Sid and MacKinnon surprising the team and then taking the ice with them in Toronto:


How awesome is that!?

Aside from the trip to Toronto, the Kenyan players received some new hockey gear courtesy CCM.

Check out some of these quotes from the players below, courtesy of Tim Hortons:

"It's a dream to be in Canada," captain Ben Azegere told his teammates in the locker room during the video shared by Tim Hortons. "To play our first game in full gear, it's all amazing."   
But then Crosby and MacKinnon showed up, driving many of the players to tears.
"Sidney," Azegere said, "Seeing my favorite player come through the door wearing our jersey, I felt like I was in heaven."
Crosby and MacKinnon surprised the Kenyan team, but they were the ones who were left impressed by the African team's talent.
"I didn't know what to expect, but I thought those guys looked great," MacKinnon said. "It's cool to see the genuine excitement that they had, and it got us really fired up."
Tim Hortons will help fund Kenya's youth hockey league, so there will be many more games in the days ahead.
"That's the best part about the game, is how it reaches so many people," Crosby said. "Even in a place like Kenya, where you wouldn't think that there's even ice."

Again, how awesome is that!? Not only do these guys get the chance to play some hockey in the birthplace of hockey, get some new gear, but they ALSO get to meet and play with two NHL superstars? Truly a once in a lifetime event. 

Source: Tim Hortons