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Hockey can be a cost-prohibitive sport for some families.
The cost to get a young player started can be $150 or more for skates, pads, helmets, sticks and other equipment.
Bemidji Youth Hockey eliminated the startup cost for some families this year with help of a grant it received from the Gear Up Minnesota! program administered by Minnesota Hockey.
“The biggest comment I hear is this: ‘Oh we’d love to try hockey but there’s no way we want to try it because it is too expensive,’” Bemidji Youth Hockey president Tracy Pogue said. “We hear it all the time. How many people are not trying hockey because they think the economics are going to kill them?”
The grant funded 24 starter sets of Total Hockey brand youth equipment for 5-8 year olds and was celebrated at Bemidji Community Arena Tuesday Afternoon during an event put on by Bemidji Youth Hockey.