Ronald<\/span> McDonald<\/span> House<\/span> Charities<\/span> of<\/span> Western<\/span> Washington<\/span> and<\/span> Alaska<\/span> (RMHC)<\/span> will<\/span> honor<\/span> the<\/span> Seattle<\/span> Thunderbirds<\/span> hockey<\/span> team<\/span> for<\/span> its<\/span> longstanding<\/span> partnership<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> Hockey<\/span> Challenge<\/span> with<\/span> the<\/span> 2015<\/span> Fred<\/span> Schultz<\/span> Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The<\/span> Thunderbirds, which plays its home games at the ShoWare Center in Kent,<\/span> will<\/span> receive<\/span> the<\/span> award<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> 27th<\/span> Annual<\/span> RMHC<\/span> Gala<\/span> auction<\/span> on<\/span> Oct.<\/span> 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n In its 17 years, the<\/span> annual<\/span> fundraiser<\/span> has<\/span> contributed<\/span> $4.6<\/span> million<\/span> toward<\/span> housing<\/span> families<\/span> of<\/span> seriously<\/span> ill<\/span> children<\/span> during<\/span> their<\/span> medical<\/span> treatment<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The<\/span> Hockey<\/span> Challenge<\/span> began<\/span> in<\/span> 1998<\/span> when<\/span> two<\/span> groups<\/span> working<\/span> on<\/span> Microsoft\u2019s<\/span> mail<\/span> server<\/span> product,<\/span> Exchange,<\/span> began<\/span> calling<\/span> each<\/span> other<\/span> names<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> party.<\/span> With<\/span> tempers<\/span> mounting<\/span> and<\/span> one<\/span> team<\/span> located<\/span> in<\/span> Canada<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> other<\/span> located<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> U.S.,<\/span> the<\/span> solution<\/span> was<\/span> a<\/span> hockey<\/span> face<\/span> off.<\/span> The<\/span> American<\/span> team<\/span> approached<\/span> the<\/span> Thunderbirds<\/span> for<\/span> some<\/span> professional<\/span> coaching<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> Thunderbirds<\/span> obliged,<\/span> so<\/span> long<\/span> as<\/span> the<\/span> Microsoft<\/span> employees<\/span> raised<\/span> money<\/span> for<\/span> RMHC.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The<\/span> next<\/span> Hockey<\/span> Challenge<\/span> is<\/span> Feb.<\/span> 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington and Alaska (RMHC) will honor the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team for its longstanding partnership in the Hockey Challenge with the 2015 Fred Schultz Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}