08/24/2026
While most everyone still has summer and warm weather on their minds, our crews have already shifted gears to the sights of 🏒 hockey 🥅 and 🥶 chilly arena air. We held the first of our annual on ice training sessions to prepare for this upcoming professional hockey season that is already around the corner.
Trans-Med Ambulance 🚑 is proud to continue its partnership with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins🐧, along with Geisinger Sports Medicine 🏥, in providing emergency support services for their hockey team, as well as all visiting teams, throughout the pre-, regular, and post-season play.
While we are thankful that we are not called on often during the course of play, this makes training sessions even more vital for our crews. As we await ice 🧊 to be laid at Mohegan Arena PA, we visited the Penguins practice center at TOYOTA Sportsplex. Here we welcomed Dan Resavy, who was recently promoted to the position of head athletic trainer for the Penguins, as well as students from King's College, PA Athletic Training Program, to practice on ice movement of players while maintaining stabilization of the spine and minimizing the risk of further injury. While this is commonly done in the field, doing it on ice with players wearing bulky equipment adds challenging elements to the ease and safety of this skill’s performance.
Stay tuned for more updates on our preparations for the upcoming hockey season, as it will be here before we know it. And as always, let’s go Pens! 🐧🐧🐧
