Following the launch of a season ticket campaign aimed at saving the franchise from folding, the Yorkton Terriers say the pandemic and financial pressures are the main drivers of their current monetary situation.
“The alternate ways created during COVID that has made it easier to stay home for entertainment, inflation and lower attendance of the past 5-7 years,” the team said in a news release.
The Terriers say over the past few years loan and credit card debt has fluctuated between $140,000 and $160,000.
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) club announced the “Save the Terriers” campaign in January and said that in order to avoid folding the team would need to sell 1,000 season tickets for the 2024-25 season at $200 per to get out of its current financial situation.
The team says it costs around $700,000 a season to operate. If the goal of 1,000 season tickets is …