The City of Owen Sound has been selected by Sportsnet to host Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on January 29, 2022.
The annual Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada is the country’s biggest single-day hockey celebration, aimed at uniting Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast.
Host Ron MacLean will be joined by the Sportsnet broadcast team with special guest appearances by NHL Alumni throughout the day-long event.
In 2020, the 13.5-hour broadcast marathon reached 10.2 million viewers across Canada.
The Saturday festival will take place on January 29, 2022, at Harrison Park, however, the City will host four days of events leading up to the Saturday.
That includes a Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada Banquet, Celebrity/Alumni Game, on ice children’s clinics, and more.
"I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Sportsnet and Scotiabank for choosing Owen Sound as the host city for Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. We have an exceptionally rich hockey history and we look forward to sharing our story with the nation and welcoming visitors from across Ontario and Canada to our community," said Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy
The event will also feature local minor hockey and girls hockey games, high school sports and the Saturday event will culminate with the Owen Sound Attack game versus the Guelph Storm at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.