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Traditional hockey tournament cancelled

Feb 1, 2016 | 5:31 PM

After the second straight year on the shelf, a 50-year-old hockey tournament seems to be finished.

The Battlefords Indian Metis Friendship Centre All-Native hockey tournament has been cancelled again this year due to a lack of interest from teams.

According to Jackie Kennedy with the Friendship Centre, teams seem less interested in participating in full contact games like they used to.

“We decided again this year, we’re not going to invest a whole lot of time an energy to it. I mean we did it for 50 years and we were the longest running tournament,” Kennedy explained.