Organizers want 2023 World Juniors to be ‘Maritime-priced’
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The rescheduled IIHF hockey tournament is expected to cost up to $14 million, but Hockey Canada says it wants to make the tournament 'affordable' and 'Maritime-priced.'
Organizers of the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship say tickets to the $14-million event will be affordable and “Maritime-priced.”
The last time the tournament was held on the East Coast was in 2003 in Nova Scotia.
With less than eight months to go before this next hosting opportunity, planning the Moncton-Halifax event is on an expedited timeline.
“Normally we would be on a two-year timeline,” said Dean McIntosh, Hockey Canada vice-president of events and properties.
“But over the years, the model has been streamlined — even as the tournament has grown.”
McIntosh said the tight schedule gives less time to debate good ideas for the tournament, but it encourages organizers to “take action and go for it.”
The timeframe was a part of the reason the East Coast was selected to host the 2022 championship originally awarded to Russia, but rescheduled following the invasion of Ukraine.
Grant MacDonald, the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship local lead in Halifax, said the news of hosting didn’t come as a complete shock.
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