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Promoter Hopeful Council WIll Give Enforcers the Green Light

By Elaine Macdonald

Promoter Darryl Wolski being interviewed by media

Hockey Enforcer Promoter, Darryl Wolski, says he feels confident the wrinkles can be ironed out of the deal he has to bring the "Innaugural Battle of the Hockey Enforcers" to Prince George.

Wolski says he talked with Mayor Colin Kinsley late last week and "We agreed to make this a 19 and over event."  The promoter also says he has agreed to have the contestants wear hockey gloves but he said "In a fight they could do more damage with them on and they do fall off that’s why they will also wear martial arts gloves underneath"

Wolski says, as for wearing the hockey helmets (another restriction placed on the event by the Athletic Commission) he said, ‘helmets do fall off, even if they are on tight ,sometimes, they still fall off."
 
Wolski says the 19 and over age barrier is the same thing as will be in place on Pay TV.  He added "For example, if you don’t want to go to a strip club, you don’t have to, why should the Hockey Enforcer’s event  be any different?"  

When quizzed as to the publicity he has received in trying to secure a venue somewhere in Canada, he remarked "I have given a great deal of thought into this thing.  If we hadn’t called it Hockey Enforcers it might have been an easier sell, but," said Wolski, "when you go to a Cougars game and someone gets in a scrap everyone stands up and cheers, making what they say about this event a joke."
 
Wolski says the Sky Network in Germany has been lined up for one of the pay per view buyers, and he is negotiating with Pay per View about taking the event, along with six or seven other Pay TV Networks, including one French Network. 

Would he have come to attend tonight’s Council meeting at which the matter will be brought up again? “I wasn’t going to drive 20 hours without being invited , but from what I’m hearing, it would be nice to be back in business."
 
The matter comes back to Council tonight at Mayor Kinsley's request.  The agenda already has, for Council's view, a letter from Prince George resident Rob Hardy.  He says if Council allows the event to go ahead, it will be "a black day in sporting history."
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