No Copper Country Rinks Selected As Hockeyville USA

According to Kraft Foods, someplace else in Hockeyville USA.

At least for this year as neither Houghton or Calumet where selected for the semi-finals in the national contest that crossed over into the U.S. after several successful years in Canada.

The Upper Peninsula will be represented in the contest, however, as Pullar Stadium in Sault Ste. Marie was picked as part of the East Division.

Billing themselves as the ‘Original Hockeytown”, Pullar Stadium was constructed in 1939 and is one of the oldest artificial rinks still in operation and once hosted the Detroit Red Wings training camp.

More 1,300 were nominated and 18,000 unique story nominations were submitted from throughout the country.

Second-round voting begins Tuesday.