Saskatchewan seeing a surge of girls registering for hockey [Video]

Interest in girls’ hockey has hit an all time high in Saskatoon and that’s encouraging for current and past players.

“It’s pretty cool that there’s so many little girls that want to play hockey,” Rachel Henderson told CTV News.

“I love playing hockey, so it makes me so happy that there’s so many other people out there who love it as much as I do,” Micah Pritchard said.

Just over 800 players between five to 17-years-old are registered this year in the Comets zone, which started in 1993 with just one team, according to the zone commissioner, who’s been at the helm for ten years.

“This is a new all-time high for us. We’ve been continually growing every year typically about 6 to 8%. This year was a little over eight per cent,” Krispin Zaleschuk, told CTV News.

Those percentages may not seem that impressive, until compared to numbers from …