Vancouver Canucks hockey players will be in Surrey on Monday (Sept. 8) for an annual pre-season golf tournament at the Northview courses.<\/p>\n
The 41st Jake Milford Canucks Charity Invitational Golf Tournament will again raise\u00a0money for\u00a0Canucks For Kids Fund and Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation.<\/p>\n
Last year “The Jake”\u00a0raised\u00a0close to $588,000.\u00a0For 2025, the fee is $2,500 for a\u00a0single golfer, or $8,500 for a team of three\u00a0participants hosted by a Canucks\u00a0“celebrity” (player, coach, alumni or hockey operations executive).<\/p>\n
An online prize raffle (canucks.com\/milfordraffle<\/a>) boasts\u00a0a\u00a018K white gold diamond bracelet valued at $16,600.\u00a0All sales close at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8.<\/p>\n The tourney in Surrey is “a celebration of our past and our present, coming together to kick off the season and raise important funds to support the kids and families in B.C.,” says a post on nhl.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last September, a\u00a0light drizzle fell as hundreds of people arrived at the course for breakfast and a day of golf at Northview.\u00a0The\u00a0shotgun-style tournament salutes Jake Milford, the Canucks\u2019 general manager in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1984.<\/p>\n