Per the CTV News’s Hannah Schmidt, Red Wings defenseman Ben Chiarot and his wife, Jacqueline, established the “Scotland’s Yard Road Hockey Classic” in 2021 to benefit the Grand River Hospital Foundation in Kitchener. The annual event was held today:
Excitement and energy filled the air Saturday as the third annual Scotland’s Yard Road Hockey Classic made its much anticipated return to Kitchener.
This year’s event promised to be a star-studded spectacle, drawing players from the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and National Hockey League (NHL) as well as Olympic athletes.
The tournament allowed players of all ages to hit the pavement alongside top-tier talent like the Detroit Red Wing’s Ben Chiarot, Tanner Pearson from the Montreal Canadiens, former Florida Panther and Boston Bruin Gregory Campbell, New Jersey Devil Nathan Bastian, the Winnipeg Jets’ Logan Stanley, former Winnipeg Jet Bryan Little, Professional Women’s Hockey League player Loren Gabel, former Nashville Predator Nick Spaling and former Nashville Predator and New York Ranger Kevin Klein.
“We were told that there’s over 200 families right now currently going through a cancer journey and then traveling back and forth to get treatment,” said attendee Brian Santos.
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As of 1:30 p.m. Saturday, more than $200,000 dollars had been raised for the hospital.
“Every little bit helps. They’re raising money for such a good cause,” Stanley said.
“We’re trying to raise $50 million in ten years, so the more people that know about it, the more people to consider it, the better it is,” Santos said.
Continued with video; there’s also an online auction which has a signed Steve Yzerman jersey, Ben Chiarot stick, Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider-signed items, and more (including a Ray Bourque-signed jersey).
The auction ends tomorrow night at 6 PM, and the prices are quite reasonable.
