Champ Car driver Alex Tagliani joins celebrity hockey game in Montreal
source: rocketsportsracing.com - Nadia Petrossi Rocketsports Champ Car driver Alex Tagliani will join the Réseau des Sports (RDS) celebrity hockey team for a friendly game of "hockey bottine" at the Fête de Neige (Festival of Snow) on Sunday, Jan. 25 at Place des Nations at Jean-Drapeau Park in Montréal. This is the first of three consecutive weekends for the winter festival, which is free to the public. The celebrity game will start at 11:45 a.m., just prior to the Montreal Canadiens first public outdoor practice. Hockey bottine is played with a puck and boots, specifically designed to grip the ice. Tagliani will be playing alongside RDS network personalities; Norman Flynn, Carlo Blanchard, Claudine Douville, Micher Fervac-Larose, Renaud Lavoie, Rodger Brulotte and Martin Gauthier. The lineup also includes France St-Louis from the Canadian Women's Hockey team, who won the gold medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, auto-racing commentator Bertrand Godin, Seattle Seahawks Center Jean-Philippe Darche, and from the hit TV series Lance et Compte; Éric Hoziel, Carl Marotte, Louis-Philippe Dandenault and Alexandre Dandeneault. The celebrity team will also feature comedians and former Montreal Canadiens hockey players. En route back home to Montreal, Tagliani, and wife Bronte, made a stop at the Rocketsports Racing shop to complete a custom seat for the No. 33 Johnson Controls Lola. The couple spent the past week at Mont Tremblant, snowboarding and enjoying the Quebec winter.
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