Any of the sports that really started to grow and catch on, a lot of the politicians got behind them and supported them because it helped promote national unity and identity in Canada as a young country.
The Mintos were then allowed to compete for the Stanley Cup in 1911 due to being deemed as a professional teams as they had to paid players on the roster.
Port Arthur would go on to lose a challenge series for the Stanley Cup to the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association.
The end result was that the Melville beat the Mintos 9–8 and it was the closest any Prince Albert hockey team would come to winning the Allan Cup.
According to the city of Prince Albert website, the match to remember was the night they played the Moose Jaw Maroons for the Henderson Cup.
Around 1,800 jam packed the old Mintos Arena, which was located on the west end of Prince Albert by the old railroad bridge.
Fans unable to get seats inside the stadium almost completely tore down the south wall of the arena in order to watch the memorial struggle.
[2][3] Four years later in the 1932–1933 hockey season the Mintos consisted of George Freeland, Scotty Milne, Mac MacFee, Red Hemmerling, George Freeland, Al Fowlie, Todd Klein, Bob McQuarrie, Jack Brown, Jack Dundas, Don Deacon, and Fred Mosher.
The roster at that time included: Wayne Stephenson, Joe Palyga, Ron Clearwater, Hermie Merkowsky, Jim Wilson, Herb Jeffery, Chuck Holdaway, Harry Harasyn, Jack Drew, Don Crawford, and Bill Hunter.
Some of his linemates included Pat Donnely, Nick Balon and Jim Neilson, who had a great career with the New York Rangers.
[4] The present day Western Hockey League franchise of the Prince Albert Raiders were formed as a provincial Junior A team in 1972.
After a number of years a couple of local men were granted permission to start a team, which they called the Prince Albert Midget Raider Mintos.
Assistant Mintos captain for the 2005–2006 season Matthew Robertson was awarded the top forward at the Telus Cup.
The Mintos finished the playoffs with a 9–4 record and won the provincial Saskatchewan Midget AAA Hockey title for the second consecutive season.
They went on to the Western Regional Championships and once again remained undefeated, leading to a berth in the 2007 Telus Cup, held in Red Deer, Alberta.