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An anonymous donor is matching up to $200,000 in donations to the World’s Longest Hockey Game in support of cancer research.
The seventh iteration of the game began on Feb. 4 and has a goal of raising $1.5 million this year to support life-saving cancer research at the University of Alberta to benefit patients at the Cross Cancer Institute.
On Monday, an anonymous donor came forward to match all gifts up to a total of $100,000. That goal was reached Tuesday night and now the same donor is providing an additional $100,000 in matched giving.
Every gift from Tuesday will now be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $200,000.
Conditions have become brutal for players this week in bone-chilling cold, so cold that with -42 wind chills, pucks that have struck the goalposts have shattered.
But the effort keeps on giving, with just over $1 million raised by Wednesday.
Since 2003, players have raised $5.47 million for the Cross Cancer Institute.
The World’s Longest Hockey Game will conclude on Feb. 14.
