The Boston Bruins are doing their part to help create awareness of, and participation in, hockey. The following article announces the huge impact their donation of $100,000 will have in this effort.
Boston Bruins Foundation Director of Development Bob Sweeney presented a check for $100,000 to the Massachusetts Hockey Association. Of the $100,000 donation, $36,000 was donated to Mike Cheever’s “Grow Hockey” Program, a development program whose purpose is to seek, fund and share within the Massachusetts Hockey Association, innovative methods for growing ice hockey participation throughout the state. The $36,000- which was raised exclusively through the sale of Bruins license plates- was divided amongst nine hockey programs, who received donations of $4,000 a piece. The programs are: Cambridge Youth Hockey, Cambridge Youth Hockey – Girls, the Winchester Youth Hockey Association, Woburn Youth Hockey, the Norwood Nuggets, Hingham Girls Hockey, Stoneham Youth Hockey, the East Coast Jumbos, and the Franklin Flyers.
As an administrator, coach, board member and officer, Mike Cheever’s impact on youth hockey was immense at the local and national levels. He served as a member of USA Hockey’s Youth Council for 13 years and has coached hundreds of kids for the past forty years, with plans to do so for many years to come. The Massachusetts Hockey Association has named the “Grow Hockey” program after him, because it is aimed at achieving what he dedicated his life to: giving more kids the opportunity to play the game of hockey.
The remaining $64,000 of the donation will be used by the Massachusetts Hockey Association in a variety of ways to help grow the sport of hockey in Massachusetts.
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