The University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds hockey team
will make a rare appearance at Harbour Station in December.
UNB announced this morning that they will host the Russian
Red Stars - a team made up of all-stars from the MHL (Russia's equivalent of
the Canadian Hockey League) - in the 8th annual Peterbilt New Brunswick Pete
Kelly Challenge. The first of two games will be played in Saint John on
Sunday, December 30 while the second will be held at the Aitken University
Centre in Fredericton on New Year’s Eve.
The two games will be played against the backdrop of the 40th anniversary of the most famous hockey series of all time -- the 1972 Canada-Russia Hockey Summit -- along with the annual Montreal Canadiens vs. Russian Red Army games on New Year's Eve. This will be the third annual trip to North American for Team Russia. Prior to meeting the V-Reds, they will play two games against NCAA Providence College Friars and a pair of contest against the NCAA RPI Red Hawks. It will be UNB's first international experience against a Russian team although they have had several players play in various international hockey events.
Tickets for the Harbour Station game – which will feature
a 3pm start time – go on sale tomorrow morning. Tickets range from $18 to
$12.50.
UNB features several former Quebec Major Junior Hockey
League and Canadian Hockey League stars in Nick MacNeil, Cameron Critchlow,
Matt Fillier, Ben Shutron, Chad Denny and many others. The team also features former
Sea Dogs goaltender Travis Fullerton who spent one-and-a-half seasons in Saint
John. Fullerton, arguably the best netminder in Sea Dogs history, helped Saint John reach the QMJHL semi-final for the first time in 2007-08.
Anytime UNB plays a big time opponent it is worth going
to. It’s hard to say what kind of crowd this event will get with the Sea Dogs
playing just up the highway in Moncton that same afternoon.
On a side note, there is a ridiculous amount of sporting events at Harbour Station in December.
On a side note, there is a ridiculous amount of sporting events at Harbour Station in December.
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