Sabres Billed For 2010 'Hockeyville' Game

WGR News Reporting
Dundas Ontario has been chosen as 'Hockeyville' for 2010 and the Buffalo Sabres will play the Ottawa Senators in an exhibition game in the small Canadian town in September.

The preseason game will be played on September 28th.

Dundas will be 'Kraft Hockeyville' for one day. The company will donate money for improvements to a hockey arena in order to help make it suitable for NHL hockey. Dundas has just 25,000 residents. The annual event is held to bring the NHL experience to small town. Terrace, British Columbia hosted the event last preseason.

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Apparently, Kraft donates $150,000 to the winning town for use toward arena improvements. Damn.

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mechaphil

NOOOO!!!! If the Newfoundland town won that competition I could've seen the Sabres play for the first time!

NOOOOOOOOO

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#1 Hockey Nation.

25,000 is a small town?

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Certainly not a big one. Some cities that entered surprised me. Considering Terrace won last year and they have like 12,000 people and then this year places like Cranbrook were trying to win and Cranbrook is big enough to support a WHL team. When I think Hockeyville I think of a small town like Terrace. Isolated from big cities and shit. All they have to do in the city is play hockey and ride mountain bikes. I dont know much about Dundas but I usually judege towns on what kind of Junior team they can support. With Dundas being home to a junior C team I would think this town is small enough to be considered to Hockeyville.

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Eh

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25,000 is a pretty large city in western canada. isnt swift current and red deer or whatever like under 13,000 each?

i grew up in a city that is 10,000 people, but its actually a suburb of detroit (which is weird, because theres farmland separating us and oxford, which is the beginning of constant city (and where gerbe is from)

but regardless, cities 10,000 and under should enter.

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Can we at least get a decent camera feed this time?

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

There were just under 2,000 people in my home town of Youngstown in 2000 and about 1,400-1,800 when I grew up there. Now my wife is from LA so anything that doesn't swallow the sky above it with brown smog is a small town.....Hahahaha!

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Yeah, the town I live in is 7,000 strong, which to me is the average small town size.

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Hey Cross...did you grow up in Lewiston or Youngstown? (we went to the same highschool)

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I grew up between two towns, one 2,000 and one that must be about 1,000. I was out in the woods. When my wife visited she fell in love with the area and we're planning on moving back when this Air Force junk is done in 10 years. Get ourselves a nice house on Lake Ontario and enjoy the quiet life. I miss getting together with friends and family for hockey games...what i wouldn't give to be able to drive on down to The Jug and watch the Sabres play.

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Holy crap you guys live in small places.

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

Well I live in Colorado Springs now....bit bigger considering my home town has one blinking red light.

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The Town of Van Buren is about 20 minutes Northeast of the City of Syracuse (pop. ~150,000). Most of the 7,000 (The population is technically 12,000 since we overlap with the Village of Baldwinsville) residents are found within the hamlet of Village Green. Village Green has about 4,000 people in it.

My closest neighbor is about 200' away.

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Ontario is eastern Canada so for them 25,000 is small. Swift Current and Medicine Hat are western cities and as you said they don't have a huge population. I guess there just are not a lot of people who like to live in the prairies with -40C temperature.

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Eh