Cranbrook consultant shoots for Million
By The Nelson Daily Sports
The Nelson Daily has learned a Cranbrook sales consultant could be humming the tune to the Barenaked Ladies “If I had a Million Dollars” song very soon.
Barry Epp of the Key City was selected at random as the winner of TSN’s fifth annual, international award-winning million-dollar giveaway, the Chevrolet Cruze Million Dollar Shootout.
On New Year’s Eve, during the first intermission of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Buffalo, NY., between Canada and Sweden, Epp will attempt to score 15 or more goals into the net from the far blueline within the allotted time to win $1 million in a one-time payout.
Epp, 63, has 20 pucks to shoot in 24 seconds.
As part of the contest, Epp will also have the chance to win up to three all-new 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Sedans for himself and two friends — son Shane Epp and friend Chris Kirwan — during the group shoot from center ice.
The trio will each have 15 seconds to shoot 10 pucks at an open net (30 pucks in total).
Depending on the number of total goals scored as a group, prizes will be awarded as follows:
Five to nine goals – Epp wins a new Chevrolet Cruze
Ten or more goals – all three take home a new Chevrolet Cruze
Immediately following the group shots at centre ice, Epp will move back to the far blue line for the Million Dollar Shootout.
Epp is very familiar with the Chevrolet Million Dollar Shootout promotion.
In 2008 Epp was in attendance at General Motors Place in Vancouver when Darwin Head of Prince Albert, SK, won it all during the Chevrolet Malibu Million Dollar Shootout in 2008, netting four Chevrolet Malibus and $1 million live on TSN.
The day prior to the shootout, the Cranbrook trio receives a special one-hour private practice session with Hall of Fame defenceman and Chevrolet Hockey Ambassador Bobby Orr at HSBC Arena in Buffalo.
Epp was randomly chosen from nearly 7.2 million total online entries.
With files from TSN
