Kids from ages 4 to 13, disabled and able-bodied alike, have come together to create the Swift Current IceBreakers sledge hockey team.

They had their first game experience this weekend in a Kindersley tournament, where they fared well for only having a handful of practices under their belt.

They lost 4-0 to the host Klippers, 4-2 to Regina, and 3-1 to Edmonton, but Assistant Coach Darwin Gooding was impressed with their performance, especially since they controlled play in the third period against Regina and were the first team to score a goal against Edmonton.

Gooding said two players have played sledge hockey before and two others have played some goalie in able-bodied hockey, but the four practices prior to the tournament was pretty much all the experience the rest of the team had.

They had 10 players take the trip up to Kindersley - a group mostly composed of the older members of the team. But having those youngsters on board too is huge for the future of the program.

"The idea is that we're going to try to keep the team going, and hopefully things don't fade out here over the first couple of years once the novelty wears off. But it's been really fun so far," said Gooding.

Tim Berg and Tyler Speir are the co-head coaches, and both have children with disabilities, and came up with the idea for the team along with their wives.

Unlike able-bodied hockey, competition is tougher to come by.

Berg's son Hunter travelled to Kindersley and, more recently, Regina, for practices for years. Now weekly practices are held in Swift Current.

There are a couple more tournaments on the radar for this season - first is Regina from January 27-28, before the IceBreakers might play in Edmonton for the Western Canada Sledge Hockey Tournament around late March/early April (the dates aren't set yet).