It’s not carved in stone, but the battle to decide the best high school hockey team in the province once again could be waged on Fort Frances ice.
FFHS principal Ian Simpson said Monday there was a “good chance” the town soon may secure the right to host the 2005 OFSAA hockey showdown.
“It still has to be formally approved, but it’s looking good,” Simpson said of the opportunity for Fort Frances to host its first OFSAA puck tourney since the Muskies won the provincial title here in 1989.
“We’ve held it twice before here, and we always pack the arena and put on a good show,” Simpson said.
The official word won’t be handed down until at least April 11-12, when the OFSAA board of directors hold its spring meeting.
Fort High submitted its bid to host the tournament at the NWOSSAA winter meetings late last year, with the association then deciding to forward the bid to OFSAA.
“We’ve been discussing it locally for about a year,” said Simpson. “It’s one of the endeavours that the school and the community work together so well on.”
Dryden was the last NWOSSAA school to host the event, doing so in both 1993 and 1998.
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