Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps & Coach at Fort DuPont, Ralph Featherstone

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The Godfather of Hockey - The Making of The Cannons Documentary

AJ Messier & Steven Hoffner

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The Godfather of Hockey details the making of “The Cannons,” a documentary film about a little-known hockey program in Washington, D.C., launched by US Hockey Hall of Famer Neal Henderson five decades ago. Co-hosts AJ Messier and Steve Hoffner discuss their filmmaking journey and speak with those documented in the film, alumni of the program, politicians and more about the significance and legacy of Coach Neal and his Fort Dupont Cannons. https://www.thecannonsdocumentary.com

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Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps & Coach at Fort DuPont, Ralph Featherstone

The Godfather of Hockey - The Making of The Cannons Documentary

31 minutes 59 seconds

4 years ago

Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps & Coach at Fort DuPont, Ralph Featherstone

This week of the GOH podcast we have Assistant Coach of the Fort Dupont Cannons Ralph Featherstone. Feather, as his friends know him has been with the Fort DuPont Program since he was a young toddler who's mother was afraid he was too small to play such a physical sport. Some thirty years later he has grown into the role of Assistant Coach of the Junior Cannons team of which his son, Little Ralph is a member of. Ralph talks with us about the adversity he faced growing up as a kid in Washington DC during the 1980's. How he came to love the game of hockey through the teachings of Coach Neal, so much so that he never gave up on his dream of playing for the Naval Academy one day, and not only did he play but was named Captain of his senior year. Ralph also talks to us about his life as at Miramar and the heights he hopes to see the Fort DuPont Cannon program soar to in the next 10 years.

The Cannons website: https://www.thecannonsdocumentary.com

Instagram: @thecannonsdocumentary https://www.instagram.com/thecannonsdocumentary/

Hosted by: AJ Messier & Steven Hoffner

Produced by: Michael Mayers

Script Copy by: John Grigg

Original Music by: BrYonge "Accurate"