Terrace IS Hockeyville!

Saturday, March 07, 2009 09:18 PM

Terrace, B.C. –Terrace has been named the winner of this year’s Kraft Hockeyville competition. Terrace drew the most votes through online, text and phone ballots.

The win means Terrace will pick up the grand prize of $100,000 in arena upgrades from Kraft and will get to host an NHL pre-season game between the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Islanders on Monday September 14th.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has offered his congratulations to Terrace for it’s win "On behalf of all British Columbians, I'd like to offer my congratulations to all of the residents of Terrace on being named Hockeyville 2009.

"Hockey is inextricably linked to Canadian and British Columbian culture, and the people of Terrace showed their community pride and enthusiasm in bringing in millions of votes from across the country to secure their win.

"Terrace rallied together to show the country why their community deserved to be Hockeyville and at the same time demonstrated the kind of spirit that makes the Northwest such an incredible part of our province.

"The whole city came together for the good-natured competition and as a result Terrace will host an NHL Pre-Season Game, a CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, and get $100,000 towards the Terrace Sportsplex.

"Terrace is Hockeyville!"

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Posted by: Spring on March 7 2009 9:31 PM

Great news!!!!!!!

Posted by: tinyapplecork on March 8 2009 12:20 AM

Congrats!

Posted by: Oldun on March 8 2009 12:21 AM

I wonder how long it will take Pat Bell and his master, Gordo, to turn this win for Terrace into a photo-op for the Libs. Perhaps Kraft will let them present the cheque on the new PG Airport runway. Oops, that runway photo-op has already been done. Anyway, good going Terrace and enjoy your NHL Hockey game but don't let Ticketmaster sell thetickets for you.

Posted by: tinyapplecork on March 8 2009 12:26 AM

dunno Oldun...will they be around in Sept?? lol

Posted by: jonnypg on March 8 2009 12:51 AM

Way to go guy's!

Posted by: gus on March 8 2009 4:10 AM

Can we be soccerville please?

Posted by: acrider54 on March 8 2009 7:07 AM

Good on Terrace

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on March 8 2009 7:21 AM

Hockey?

Posted by: hartbooks on March 8 2009 7:26 AM

Congrats Terrace! They worked really hard for this.

It'll be worth more than $100,000 when all the hotel rooms/meals and the like are counted in from the Sept. preseason game too.

Posted by: He speaks on March 8 2009 8:42 AM

wtg

Posted by: hammmy on March 8 2009 10:19 AM

Thats just really cool for you people in Terrace. Congratulations!

Posted by: The_grandinquisitor on March 8 2009 10:51 AM

Campbell will try to take all of the credit....just wait and see.

Posted by: diplomat on March 8 2009 1:59 PM

Not if James gets there first!

Posted by: lunarguy on March 8 2009 5:37 PM

Why are the politicians so proud of this ? IF they had been providing proper infrastructure spending this wouldn't be a priority of communities to go after such funding. To me it highlights the shortcomings of them.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on March 8 2009 8:02 PM

Congratulations Terrace...great job!
You deserve this award!
(Gordo will let you know when he will be bringing your cheque,please have your camera's ready!)

Posted by: metalman on March 9 2009 1:51 PM

This is something totally awesome happening for the town of Terrace and good for them! I would love to be in that arena to watch the Canucks mop the rink with the Islanders. I hope that all the brass flying in for the event don't soil their knickers when they see what they are flying into when it's time to land the planes. I think that being named Hockeyville is a win win win for Terrace.
metalman.