Kids don 'carpet skates' to Imagine playing the Silvertips

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Keigan Stevens, a 4-year-old from Marysville, talks to Everett Silvertips Zack Dailey (right) and Kellan Tochkin during a carpet hockey game at the Imagine Children’s Museum on Tuesday morning in Everett. Keigan temporarily broke away from the mob of kids sliding over the carpet on “carpet skates” to talk with the Silvertips players. Kids like Keigan and his brother Keiran, 6, (not pictured) were invited to push an oversized hockey puck around a carpeted floor toward miniature goals on each side of the room.

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Silvertip right wing Kellan Tochkin gives high fives to the crowd of kids challenging the goal during a carpet hockey game at the Imagine Children’s Museum Tuesday morning in Everett.

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Connor Simmons, 5, dives for a puck during a carpet hockey game with Silvertips players Zack Dailey and Kellan Tochkin at the Imagine Children’s Museum Tuesday morning in Everett. Connor, who hasn’t started playing ice hockey yet, showed up for the visit with the Silvertips players with his own gear, gloves, helmet, stick and even a jersey already filled with Silvertips’ signatures. His parents have had season tickets since he was a baby.

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Kids scramble to strap on pairs of “carpet skates” for a hockey game with Everett Silvertips Zach Dailey and Kellan Tochkin at the Imagine Children’s Museum Tuesday morning in Everett.