The Quesnel Kangaroos fully support a junior hockey team coming to town and they are not looking for a 100 thousand dollar handout.
Head Coach Jordan Draper says they want to make those two points clear in light of recent news stories that emerged following negotiations between the City and the CRD and a potential new owner of a team.
“We’re fully in support of a junior hockey team coming here. We think it would be great for the community and at the end of the day it would also be great for us. You know when they age out of junior, they would be able to come in and play with us.”
Draper says they just wanted to let everybody know what they needed to survive.
“We told the city and the CRD that we need around a hundred thousand dollars in sponsorship money. We’re not looking to be paid a hundred thousand dollars, we just told them that that was what we needed in sponsorship money. That’s like board signs, glass signs, ice signs, things like that.”
Draper says it is advertising that they have worked to get.
“The team has been going out for the last 15 years building a relationship and working really, really hard to get all of that, and to see it just kind of taken away is essentially what the question was, It would really suck because if it was gone, even if it was cut in half, the Roos would essentially fold.”
Asked if there were enough advertising dollars to support two teams, Draper said he didn’t have the exact numbers in front of him, but that he felt that there were a lot of other opportunities including the walking track, all along the walls, and on the stairs.
