St. John's Minor Hockey
Financing of Minor Hockey
to the City treasury. 1971-72
An application for assistance was approved for minor hockey through a Local Incentive Project grant (L.I.P.). The association received $16,000+ that provided supervisory staff (6) for a rapidly expanding minor hockey operation. Another raffle of E.P.A.-donated return tickets to see an NHL game in Montreal brought in about $1,000. The association entered into an agreement with the hockey committee of the senior St. John's Capitals to develop a hockey program and to promote their sale at Newfoundland Senior Hockey League games. Minor hockey only netted a little over $1,000 from this project and expenses exceeded $4,000. The latter project should have been more successful. However, some $5,000 was not realized when a number of business firms failed to pay for their advertisements in spite of the fact that the programs were sold from October 1971 until May 1972 at all Newfoundland Senior Hockey League games, high school games (average attendance 3,000), provincial minor hockey tournament games held in St. John's, and at playoff games between the Avalon Consolidated School and Stadium systems. Additional L.I.P. assistance was offered the city association by Joe Byrne through the N.A.H.A. minor hockey L.I.P. grant. This offer was declined on the grounds that the association already received a grant, and the money for a supervisor would probably be better appreciated and possibly more effectively utilized by another association elsewhere in the province.