William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog since 2012. Douglas joined NHL.com in 2019 and writes about people of color in the sport. Today, as part of NHL.com's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 15-Oct. 15, he profiles the growth of the Puerto Rico Ice Hockey Association.

Scott Vargas never envisioned himself as a building contractor.

But there the president of the Puerto Rico Ice Hockey Association was last week, helping to oversee construction of an inline hockey rink at Summit Arenales Academy in San Juan that the organization plans to make the hub of an inline hockey league on the United States island territory.

“We’ve been down here for the last two, three weeks trying to really get things going,” Vargas said. “We finally got our hockey boards and our in

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