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SUCCESS: Garnett Silver-Hall scored a hat trick—three goals—at the 2017 Disabled Hockey Festival this month. The Bolinas 15-year-old started playing sled hockey six years ago.   Trooper Johnson

Garnett Silver-Hall was prepared for a matchup as he led his sled hockey team, the Sharks, into the championship game against the Chicago Hornets earlier this month at the 2017 Disabled Hockey Festival in San Jose. He had faced the Hornets before, and knew they were prone to using the technique of “checking”—in which a player deliberately crashes into an opponent. This was the first sled hockey title match for the Bolinas teenager and, after…