Hockey Day Organizers Move High School Games Indoors

Three high school hockey games originally scheduled to be played Jan. 21 on Lake Minnetonka as part of Hockey Day 2012 have been moved indoors. Event organizers said in a statement made Thursday afternoon that recent warm weather would not allow for ice that would "provide a safe, playable surface of the quality necessary for the three consecutive high school varsity games scheduled."

The three games will be played at their previously-scheduled times, and tickets will be available at the Pagel Activity Center in Minnetonka. Tickets already purchased will be honored, according to the Hockey Day Minnesota website.

The North American Pond Hockey Championship and the Jack Jablonski Junior Bronze Pond Hockey Tournament will be played on Excelsior Bay as scheduled—on the lake near the docks of Maynards and the Bay View Event Center.

Plans for a telethon organized by the Minnesota Wild, FOX Sports North and Wells Fargo to raise money for the Jack Jablonski Trust Fund will likewise remain unchanged.

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Below is the schedule for the high school games:

• White Bear Lake vs. Grand Rapids (Boys): 10 a.m.
• Minnetonka vs. Duluth East (Boys): 1:30 p.m.
• Minnetonka vs. Hopkins (Girls): 4 p.m.

Patch will have additional details of the North American Pond Hockey Tournament and the Jack Jablonski Junior Bronze Pond Hockey Tournament in the coming days.