From a height of 8.02 goals a game in 1981-82, when Gretzky set the single-season record with 92, the so-called dead puck era hit its nadir in 2003-04 at 5.14.

Former women's hockey player Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and former NHL defenseman Deryk Engelland were among those who passed pucks to the players shooting. "It is so different," Aho said.