{"id":135624,"date":"2023-01-12T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=135624"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:15:22","slug":"terrace-river-kings-host-first-charity-hockey-game-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terrace-river-kings-host-first-charity-hockey-game-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace River Kings host first charity hockey game of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Terrace\u2019s senior men's AA hockey team the River Kings are holding a charity game for the first time this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team will be playing against the Terrace Adult Hockey League (TAHL) men\u2019s team on Saturday to fundraise for Canadian Tire\u2019s Jumpstart program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Germain Francouer, general manager for the River Kings, this may be the first time the team has held or participated in a charity game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First playing as a team in the 2004\/2005 season, the River Kings have won the Central Interior Hockey League Championships four times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This game will see 18 players selected from across the 14 TAHL teams to go against the River Kings\u2019 25.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the players aren\u2019t only competing for charity: the winning team will also stake a claim over the Peter Nisyok Memorial Cup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Francouer says that there will also be intermission activities, 50\/50 draws, and door prizes per the usual River Kings games.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first intermission will see a few fans take to the ice to attempt to score a goal by rolling tires down the ice, courtesy of Canadian Tire of course. The second intermission will see attendees take part in a classic puck toss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All proceeds from ticket sales and intermission activities will go towards the Jumpstart program. Francouer says that they are also hoping for a high scoring game; because for every goal made, one of the event's sponsors, MNP Accounting, will donate $100.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teams will face off in the Terrace Sportsplex main arena on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Adult admission is $10 and kids 12 and younger are free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Germain Francouer below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrace\u2019s senior men&#8217;s AA hockey team the River Kings are holding a charity game for the first time this year. The team will be playing against the Terrace Adult Hockey League (TAHL) men\u2019s team on Saturday to fundraise for Canadian Tire\u2019s Jumpstart program.\u00a0 According to Germain Francouer, general manager for the River Kings, this may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":135642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,204],"tags":[22398,3846,22401,22402,17753,4595,22399,22400,22397,22396,19337],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135624"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135733,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135624\/revisions\/135733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135624"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=135624"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=135624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}