Homebase 2022 NHL All-Star Match – Team Comeau (white jerseys), Team Gorges (black jerseys), coaches and umpires.
Image Credit: KGH Foundation
June 27, 2022 - 4:30 PM
Two NHL stars Blake Comeau and Josh Gorges along with 20 other pro-hockey players were in Kelowna this past weekend participating in a charity slo-pitch tournament that raised thousands of dollars for the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation.
More than $242,000 was raised in the Gorges Comeau Homebase Slo-Pitch Charity Tournament on June 24 and 25, according to a KGH Foundation press release.
Twenty-two current and former NHL players were on hand for some fun and friendly competition, including brothers Brayden and Luke Schenn, Tyson Barrie, Jordin Tootoo, Carey Price, Shea Weber, Brendan Gallagher and Justin Schultz.
After a two-year hiatus, the community was ready for the return of Homebase with tickets to the All-Star game on Friday night selling out before game time, the foundation said.
“We are incredibly grateful for the support of our generous community and are so happy to have been able to come together again for this star-studded weekend of fun…and fundraising,” KGH Foundation CEO Allison Ramchuk said in the release.
“While the pandemic kept us apart for two years, it has also magnified a critical concern in our region – mental health care and mental well-being, which the ‘We See You’ campaign aims to address."
The money raised will provide for the immediate needs of community mental health care providers in order to help people who are struggling right now and facilitate collaboration to support system innovation, to build the sustainable, inclusive, and accessible system of mental health care.
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