I hope everyone is doing well, staying safe and getting ready for the return of the Wenatchee Wild for the 2021-2022 BCHL season. The Wild have had a long hard winter and spring with no BCHL hockey. Our partners north of the border just completed the BCHL pod season. The BCHL is moving full steam ahead. We are expecting the border to open sometime this summer as Canada is starting to receive more vaccines. We are looking forward to seeing our season schedule in the next week or so.
We have had two Wild futures camp. One of the camps was in Las Vegas in April and the other was in Wenatchee in May. We also brought in twenty- two players to an Orientation Camp in May to train the new recruits for eleven days. We will have our final tryout camp
July 26, 27 and 28 here in Wenatchee. We expect that the Wild will start training camp September 17th, 2021 with the regular season starting October 8th, 2021. The coaching staff has been working hard scouting, evaluating, and recruiting for this year’s team.
The business operations staff has been working hard selling season tickets, selling corporate advertising, and working on improving the game day experience at Wild games. We have invested in a better light show for the pregame introductions as well as in game entertainment. We have brought the blimp back to help with more promotions and giveaways.
For those fans that might be holding off buying your season tickets because of the uncertainty of the border being open, we are taking deposits and offering a full refund if we would not play. We have every intention of playing this fall. The Wolves Den at the Town Toyota Center is working hard to get open for business. We expect to be at 100% capacity by the fall. If you have not got your tickets yet, please call the office and ask for Gretchen or David.
We have also started the Wenatchee Wild Booster Club. If you have interest in this please call the office and ask for Arch.
I hope you all enjoy the summer and look forward to seeing everyone in the fall for Wenatchee Wild BCHL hockey.
Bliss Littler
GM, Wenatchee Wild
