2008 Hockeyville Winner

The battle for the Kraft Hockeyville 2008 title was not even close.

This year, the Hockeyville title goes to Village sur Glace de Roberval, Quebec!

Each community displayed exceptional spirit, originality and passion for hockey but only one managed to develop an automated voting program to win the title! (Just kidding).

However, it almost looks as if there was a voting program, automated or not, developed by supporters of the wining town of Village sur Glace de Roberval.  The margin of victory was absolutely astronomical.

With nearly double the number of votes from the nearest competitor, one must wonder what strategy the people of Village sur Glace de Roberval used to secure such a vast amount of votes?  I’m afraid it’s one of those secrets they may be unlikely to share.

As voted by the Canadian public, Village sur Glace de Roberval is Canada’s greates hockey community.  The Village has won the prestige that comes with the title of Kraft Hockeyville 2008 and also receive the following prizes:

• $100,000 from Kraft to upgrade their home arena
• An NHL® pre-season game hosted in the arena*
• A CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcast special from their community

The other four finalists receive $20,000 from Kraft to upgrade their home arenas and have already received a CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcast from their community.

For What It is Worth

For what it is worth, the CBC crew that completed each of the Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts told the people of Wilcox, Saskatchewan that they deserved to win.  I’m not certain if they said that to every community, but a first hand interview with a resident of Wilcox revealed that fact this morning.

Who did you vote for for Hockeyville?  Let me know in the comments.