Keeps me grounded: N.S. hockey players prove age is just a number – Halifax [Video]

Marney LeBlanc is back at the RBC Centre in Dartmouth, N.S., for the second time this week as she joins her women’s hockey group for another day on the ice.

After retiring 13 years ago, the 72-year-old started Marney’s Ladies Hockey as a way to offer exercise and fun to women around her age.

“I noticed that there wasn’t daytime hockey for ladies,” LeBlanc said. “And people like myself who wanted to play during the day — who didn’t want to play in the league in the night — it fit that bill.”

Many of the women in LeBlanc’s group are over the age of 55 and view the group as a source of community.

“There’s a lot of women who are in a situation like me, they weren’t allowed to play when they were younger or they don’t want to play in the league because it’s too aggressive,” LeBlanc …