The players on the West Coast Walleyes hockey team are a little closer to their ultimate goal of raising $10,000 for following a weekend game in 黑马磁力 that pitted them against the B.C. Rockies, a team of deaf and hard of hearing players in the .
The game was played Saturday (Jan. 6) at the 黑马磁力 Sportsplex, and ended with a 7-6 victory for the , a group of players out to raise funds for B.C.鈥檚 sick and injured kids.
The Sportsplex donated the ice time.
They were inspired by the the CFOX Hockey Challenge, which has so far raised over $310,000 for Children鈥檚.
But unlike the radio station effort, which is based at Planet Ice in Delta, the Walleyes plan to move around from arena to arena, organizer and Walleyes goalie B.J. Ayres explained.
鈥�(We thought,) what if you don鈥檛 limit it to one arena,鈥� Ayres said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e kind of freelance.鈥�
Ayres said the team got started late last year.
Players are from 鈥渁ll over鈥� the Lower Mainland, said Ayres, a Maple Ridge resident.
As of Saturday, the Walleyes have raised $400.
Since 1982, the BC Children鈥檚 Hospital Foundation has worked with children, families, businesses and hundreds of thousands of British Columbians to raise funds for BC Children鈥檚 Hospital, Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children and the BC Children鈥檚 Hospital Research Institute.
Last year the foundation raised $97.5 million.
BC Children鈥檚 Hospital is the only full-service, pediatric acute care hospital, serving children living in BC and the Yukon.
All children who are seriously ill or injured are referred to Children鈥檚 Hospital and are either treated at the hospital facility in Vancouver or, with consultation from Children鈥檚 specialists, in their home community.
dan.ferguson@langleytimes.com
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