Charity hockey game to support Walker family

EAGLE STAFF

The U-18 Western Prairie Redwings will play a charity hockey game here against the U-22 Western Prairie Klippers on Feb. 21, starting at 7:30 p.m. The Redwings’ half of the guaranteed $1,500 half-and-half fundraiser will be donated to support former resident Scott Walker and family of Wainwright, Alta., who have daughter Peyton undergoing cancer treatments in Edmonton.

As well, admission to the game “will just be a donation to the Walker family,” said Redwing coach Trent Aylward.

“Donate what you want,” he said.

Putting on the game “I guess was the idea of me and my wife (Katie),” said Aylward.

The Kindersley-based Klippers don’t have any Rosetown or area players, but their coach is Mike Clayton, who is originally from here, he said. It’s a junior hockey team, “so they’re province-wide,” said Aylward.

Teanna Crossman of Rosetown plays for the U-22 Outlook Ice Hawks of the same league, he said.

The Redwings are from here and places such as Elrose and Dinsmore.

Being older and drawn from all of Saskatchewan might give the Klippers some obvious advantages. “I don’t even care what the score is. That’s not what it’s about,” said Aylward.

It’s also not a matter of extra travel for the Klippers, “because most of those girls live in Saskatoon anyway,” he said.

“Wear your jerseys in support,” said a poster for the game.