From left, Raiders business manager Michael Scissons, Lorraine Brassard, Rick Hodgson, and Raiders GM Curtis Hunt. (Rob Mahon/paNOW Staff)

By Rob Mahon

Raiders Remembrance Jerseys

Raiders Remembrance Day jerseys lead to $15,000 donation

Dec 14, 2022 | 12:00 PM

For their game on Remembrance Day against the Edmonton Oil Kings, the Prince Albert Raiders sported a sharp yet poignant jersey with a Remembrance Day theme. The jerseys were more than just an opportunity for a new look, however.

The jerseys were auctioned off online, with bids soaring well into the thousands for them. By the end of the auction, the jerseys had garnered $15,000, a cheque for which the Raiders presented the local Legion Branch on the night of Tuesday, Dec. 13.

“We need to remember,” said Raiders’ business manager Michael Scissons. “We need to look back, we need to thank them, we need to remember the service they gave our country for us to be who we are today.”

The jerseys each display one of three logos representing a different branch of the Canadian Armed Forces. The Army, Navy, and Air Force are all represented with players wearing jerseys pertaining to their own family military connections.

“It was pretty special, not only for our players but for their families,” Scissons said. “For their sons to don these jerseys in remembrance of family members who had fought for those branches. We did our very best to match up our players in the jerseys of the branches their family members served in.”

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“They were something else, to see that,” Rick Hodgson, president of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 2 in Prince Albert, said. “My dad was a veteran, and that’s why I’m involved in the legion. To see an organization do something like that and in that style with pictures on the jerseys and everything, it was really nice to see.”

The $15,000 is all going into the Poppy Campaign. The Poppy Campaign covers a wide variety of expenses incurred by veterans, from rest homes to rehabilitation, to even some newer forms of treatment for those suffering from PTSD.

“For them to step forward and do something like that for us is unbelievable and it’s for a good cause,” Hodgson said. “It’s for the veterans. There are a lot of programs, like there are dogs they train up for the veterans to use, there’s a lot of stuff where people don’t see where this money goes to.”

Scissons added they were so impressed by the community and fan response to these jerseys that they’re thinking of ways to make this an annual occurrence on Remembrance Day.

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