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The Flyers are Expanding Their Efforts to Rebuild Hockey Rinks and Provide Community Assistance

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Oct 3rd, 2024 · 3:30 PM EDT

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There’s been a lot of Negadelphia on the site this week so let’s switch it up with this Posidelphia Flyers press release:

PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2024) – Today, Flyers Charities announced applications are now open for its inaugural Rink Revive program, a community and fan engagement initiative aimed at identifying and supporting local hockey communities in the Greater Philadelphia, Delaware and South Jersey regions.

The new program empowers local communities to share information and stories about their local hockey space and highlight the needs or challenges their rink or programs face. Through a strategic crowdsourcing campaign, Flyers Charities will identify local projects and provide funding and resources to grow the game.  

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Applications for the Rink Revive program are open now from October 2 through November 8. During the program’s nomination period, hockey fans are encouraged to share their unique stories, highlighting their community’s connection to the game and local practice spaces. Whether it be financial assistance, equipment, rink repairs, programming or even coaching assistance, anyone can apply to receive support from Flyers Charities through the Rink Revive program. 

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Serving as inspiration for Rink Revive, this past August, Flyers Charities donated $200,000 in support of local pre-teens Natalie Van Druff and Lilly Walter’s effort to save their local ball hockey rink in New Hanover Township. The donation covered new flooring and boards, benches and penalty boxes and providing new hockey nets. In an effort to continue to grow the game of hockey, Rink Revive aims to create safe spaces and provide equipment to continue to create accessible entry points to the game of hockey.

Since its relaunch in 2021, Flyers Charities has donated $700,000 towards growing the game of hockey by helping to revitalize local rinks throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region. 

You can apply for the Rink Revive program by clicking here.

As noted in the release, Flyers Charities wants to build off the successful summer renovation of the New Hanover hockey dek in the hinterlands of upper Montco. The old rink was a total piece of shit, but the Flyers came in and laid down new tiles, built new boards, new benches, new boxes, basically everything is brand new. It looks great, a total transformation. For this specific program, I’d recommend writing in the application form, “our town is under threat from Pickleball, please help us!” That’s a good attention-getter.