Organizers of the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship say tickets to the $14-million occasion can be inexpensive and “Maritime-priced.”
The final time the event was held on the East Coast was in 2003 in Nova Scotia.
Wayne Russell, chair of the board of the Canadian Hockey Affiliation, Bob Nicholson, president of the Canadian Hockey Affiliation, Denny Deveau, president of Hockey Nova Scotia and Fred MacGillivray, president of Commerce Centre Restricted, left to proper, have fun Halifax’s profitable bid to host the 2003 world junior hockey championship, in Halifax on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000. Halifax beat out bids from Ottawa, Saskatoon, Toronto/London and Hamilton/Kitchener.(CP PHOTO/Andrew Vaughan).
With lower than eight months to go earlier than this subsequent internet hosting alternative, planning the Moncton-Halifax event is on an expedited timeline.
“Usually we’d be on a two-year timeline,” mentioned Dean McIntosh, Hockey Canada vice-president of occasions and properties.
“However through the years, the mannequin has been streamlined — even because the event has grown.”
McIntosh mentioned the tight schedule provides much less time to debate good concepts for the event, but it surely encourages organizers to “take motion and go for it.”
The timeframe was part of the rationale the East Coast was chosen to host the 2022 championship initially awarded to Russia, however rescheduled following the invasion of Ukraine.
Grant MacDonald, the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship native lead in Halifax, mentioned the information of internet hosting didn’t come as a whole shock.
“Halifax and Moncton had been engaged on the potential of co-hosting a world junior championship for the previous two years,” MacDonald mentioned. “We simply anticipated it to be later on this decade.”
Hockey Canada is hoping that the event can be successful, and that even the smaller rinks will promote out.
“We count on that our communities will embrace it, we count on that our companies will see a constructive raise.”
MacDonald mentioned capability could also be an issue.
“We could have to broaden the fan expertise past the 4 partitions of each Avenir Centre and Scotiabank Centre.”
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However, ticket gross sales are one of many first key pillars to get issues going.
“We wish to be sure that is inexpensive and that it’s Maritime-priced,” mentioned MacDonald.
The event is predicted to price as much as $14 million, however Hockey Canada says it might have a $40-60 million financial affect between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Each host cities are anticipated to want a minimum of 150 volunteers in every market.
Nonetheless, these behind planning at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax aren’t frightened about discovering the mandatory workers.
Suzanne Fougere, government vice chairman of Occasions East, mentioned a daily Mooseheads recreation takes “about 35 to 50 venue workers on any given evening.“
“For an occasion like this, will probably be nearer to about 100 folks on any given evening,” Fougere mentioned.
The occasion will run from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5, 2023. Tickets are anticipated to go on sale someday this summer season, when a volunteer recruitment marketing campaign additionally begins.
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