Dartmouth Health Children’s and Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) announce the rosters for the 18th annual Battle of the Badges Hockey Championship. The annual game, featuring police officers, detectives, marshals, state troopers, sheriffs, department of corrections officers, firefighters, dispatch workers, EMTs, and other first responders from around the Granite State, will take place at Manchester’s SNHU Arena on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets will go on sale the first week of December for the 2026 Battle of the Badges Game – don’t miss out on this family fun event to support the first responder community and the patients and families served at Dartmouth Health Children’s and CHaD. Tickets can be purchased starting Friday, December 5, by visiting CHaDHockey.org. Proceeds from the Battle of the Badges Hockey Championship provide kids with critical services such as support when they are in pediatric intensive care and management of chronic illnesses, as well as patient and family support services.
The Team Police squad will be led by Lt. Stephen Soares (Epping Police Department), who has played in the game for years. He will be assisted by Capt. Chris Vetter (New Hampshire State Police, retired). Team Police’s roster includes 25 players representing over 16 departments throughout New Hampshire including, but not limited to Epping, Hampstead, Portsmouth, Hampton, Hudson, Nashua, Kensington, Litchfield, Danville, Londonderry, Manchester, and the New Hampshire State Police.
Team Fire will once again be led by head coach Chief Tom Nault (Concord Fire Department). He will be assisted by Firefighter Timary Malley (Derry Fire Department), and Chief Dennis Comeau (Bow Fire Department). Prior to stepping up as head coach, Nault was a founding player of Team Fire. Malley and Comeau have also previously played and coached in the game. Team Fire’s roster includes 23 players representing over 20 departments throughout New Hampshire including, among others, Bedford, Bow, Concord, Nashua, Derry, Laconia, Keene, Merrimack, Salem, Hollis, and Conway.
Both teams have begun practicing and will continue, months leading up to the game on Sunday, March 15. For more information, please visit CHaDHockey.org or email CHaDHockey@Hitchcock.org.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.
About Dartmouth Health Children's
Dartmouth Health Children’s is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region with the first integrative medicine children’s hospital in the country. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) in Lebanon, NH, Dartmouth Health Children’s promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children’s conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled, inclusive, and collaborative children’s health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. A unique partnership between DH and the state of New Hampshire provides the only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the state at Hampstead Hospital. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at more than 20 locations, including all Dartmouth Health member locations, throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.