India\u2019s LATAM Cup roster features former Canadian major junior, NCAA Division I and Canadian college players like captain Tyler Sandhu, his younger brother Jordan Sandhu, Akash Bains, Gary Dhaliwal and Raymond Grewal.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor all of us, we get to do something for our community,\u201d said Tyler Sandhu, who played for Everett, Tri-City and Red Deer of the Western Hockey League and the University of British Columbia from 2012-13 to 2021-22.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully for us, this just keeps growing the game for everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cSeeing different countries, different countries playing, that\u2019s one way to grow the game. Hopefully, kids in seeing other Indian kids not from India playing hockey, watching us here or see this online it gives them a chance to understand that they can be here too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toor said the LATAM Cup team practiced Saturday in Vancouver with Robin Bawa, who became the first NHL player of Indian descent when he debuted with the Washington Capitals against the Philadelphia Flyers on October 6, 1989, in attendance.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should have seen the smile on his face,\u201d Toor said \u201cHe’s the reason why we’re here is because he opened that door a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Toor said that door opened wider in June when Abbotsford, the Vancouver Canucks\u2019 American Hockey League affiliate, won the league\u2019s Calder Cup championship under Manny Malhotra and assistant Harry Mahesh, coaches of South Asian descent. The AHL Canucks roster included forwards Arshdeep Bains, the team\u2019s points leader (43 points; 11 goals, 32 assists in 50 games) and Jujhar Khaira, who was the third player of Indian descent in the NHL when he debuted with the Edmonton Oilers at the Pittsburgh Penguins on November 28, 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAbbotsford winning is probably up there in big moments for our community,\u201d Toor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s LATAM Cup roster features former Canadian major junior, NCAA Division I and Canadian college players like captain…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115054396330346681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}