How are preparations coming for the 2010 IIHF World Junior Championship?
RJ: We began work as soon as we won the bid for the 2010 IIHF World Junior Championship in July 2008. Given the short timeframe and the huge magnitude of this event, we have been working full out since then. Our first step was putting out organizational structure in place – as we have split the round-robin games between the two cities, we have mirrored the organizational structure in both cities. Once the organizational structure was in place, we had an initial meeting with Hockey Canada in September 2008 with both the Regina and Saskatoon committees. This session helped jump start the efforts of our committees to develop plans to implement the work that needs to be done. Since we returned from Ottawa the pace has really shifted into overdrive. Our volunteer committees are busy reviewing Ottawa’s results and we expect to begin recruiting the other 2,500 volunteers in early March. So the work continues to be nonstop, but still very exciting and challenging. We can only imagine the excit
