Coming up this weekend is Weyburn Hockey Weekend at Crescent Point Place and the Tom Zandee Sports Arena. The weekend will feature tons of hockey, fun games, and prizes. Special Events Coordinator for WMHA Ryan Hennie joined me in studio to talk about the upcoming weekend:

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Deron: A big weekend for Weyburn Minor Hockey coming up!

Ryan: Thanks Deron, it is! It's going to be our sixth annual Weyburn Hockey Weekend and it's been something that's been introduced in Saskatchewan and Canada abroad and I'm hearing word of it evening taking off in other areas of North America and its getting some traction so we're excited to be doing something along with that.

Deron: It looks like its three days of action starting Friday with the Red Wings game?

Ryan: That's correct, so if you're out and about, come down to CPP, before the game we'll have some hockey relay races for small kids out on the street. We're blocking off Mergins Street right in front of CPP. There's going to be an outdoor enclosed tent where we'll have the AAA Gold Wings in there hanging out with the kids, doing face painting and relay races and trying to promote their game for Saturday night as well as the Make-A-Wish foundation. Friday night where we're going to do some raffle prize draws [Nintendo Switch] and donate all the proceeds to Make-A-Wish. It should be good if everybody would like to come out and show some support; that's what we're there for.

Deron: You mentioned the Gold Wings, they have a home game with one of their rivals, the Regina Rebels Saturday night at 7:30 and there's going to be tons to do there as well.

Ryan: We're going to do a tailgate party for them, just like on Friday night. It's going to start at about 5:30. We want to get as many people out to the rink as we can to support our local hockey teams and we'll have another major raffle draw [Sony Playstation 4] so it should be fun. People can come along and see what we're doing and hopefully we can have alot of fun with it.

Deron: So aside from the Red Wings and Gold Wings games, what else can people expect throughout the weekend?

Ryan: There's going to be relay races and some fun games taking place all day and we're going to have all our minor hockey teams that are around, they'll be playing their league hockey games. Then going into Sunday we'll be doing the same thing and then we'll have our local Red Wings team up and do "Hockey with the Wings". We're trying to implement some different stuff and if you're around and you've got your kids come out and watch and there's going to be autographs and tours of the dressing rooms and we'll wrap it up with a big photo with all the kids that are on the ice for all the kids that are involved in hockey. The idea of all this is we are trying to encourage people on the outside that are looking in to join hockey and be apart of it with us. It's supposed to help encourage everybody in the community to see what we're doing.

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