Longtime rec leaguers angry after REAL lets hockey academy bump them from Regina’s Brandt Centre [Video]

A private hockey academy and a group of senior recreational hockey players are locked in a faceoff over ice time at Regina’s Brandt Centre.

The group of senior recreational hockey players say they’ve been renting the same ice times for decades, but have now been displaced after a deal put a private hockey academy in charge.

“This is our meeting place. You’ve got 20 seniors teams. We meet amongst each other, we play, we have the odd pop after. There’s a friendship here amongst our teams,” Dennis Todd said on Thursday.

Todd said teams have been renting the ice at the 6,000-seat arena for more than 30 years. Now, because of the recently announced partnership, that may be coming to an end.

“[Now] they’re taking away old-timers hockey altogether,” he said.

The concern from Todd and other recreational hockey players has grown to the point that they’ve taken their complaints to city hall and Mayor Sandra Masters.

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