Two Utica Comets players visited the Upper Elementary School on October 12 with a message bigger and more important than hockey.
The Comets’ Jeremy Groleau and Samuel Laberge met with third grade students in the MPR (multi-purpose room) to introduce the “Comets Code” – and why “it’s cool to be kind!” 
The “Comets Code” stands for the following:
Care for those around you.
Offer help to those in need.
Make others feel valued.
Encourage and support others.
Treat everyone with respect.
Spread positivity.
As part of the presentation, students received a packet featuring ways they can live up to the “Comets Code.” For example, to “make others feel valued,” students could write one of their teachers a thank you note.
The Utica Comets, of the American Hockey League (AHL), begin their tenth anniversary season on October 15 when they travel to Pennsylvania to take on the Hershey Bears. The Comets’ first home game of the 2022-23 season is against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on October 17.