PORT ALICE—The Port Alice Minor Hockey Association hosted the North Island’s novice players in a hockey jamboree last weekend.
Instead of keeping to their home towns, the players from Port Alice, Port Hardy and Port McNeill were mixed and matched to form four teams: Teams Canada, USA, Russia and Sweden.
The ad hoc sides then took to the ice at Port Alice Arena to play each of the other teams in the just-for-fun tourney.
Between games, most of the off-duty players showed how deep the hockey bug goes by retiring to the Curling Club upstairs where a mini floor hockey game was in session all day.
