They had never planned to become millionaires re-starting the Whitehorse Huskies hockey team, so nearly breaking even is just fine, said the team's general manager, Jim King today.

Attendance for this past weekends games was 161 on Thursday, 184 on Friday and 167 on Saturday.

With the Easter long weekend, and perfect weather for being outside, King said he wasn't discouraged.

"I don't blame people one bit on a beautiful weekend,” he said.

The Huskies games were thrown into a weekend that was jam-packed between the Yukon Indian Hockey Tournament, and the Whitehorse Minor Hockey year-end tournament.

"We couldn't have it any other weekend,” King said. "It's the only weekend that was available.”

The tournament had to be ahead of the Allan Cup, after all.

Now that the season is over for the Huskies, King said the financial situation is not as dire as originally expected.

"It's pretty close to break even,” he said. "It's not that much.”

When the idea initially came up to restart the Huskies, there was never any discussion of making a fortune off of reviving the team, King said.

"Breaking even would have been a bonus,” he said. "There was no talk of making money.”

King has no regrets with how the season has gone.

"As far as a first go at it, it wasn't that bad.”

King is not dwelling on what could have been either. His approach now that the club is in the red is to "not worry about it,” he said.

"There's nothing we can do about it really,” King said.

Now the only question facing King and coach Randy Merkel is will there be a Huskies team next year.

"We haven't really gotten together to talk about it yet,” King said.

The Huskies camp learned some valuable lessons this year that they will remember if there is in fact a team next year.

"It's too much to just bank the whole thing on attendance,” King said.

Had the club earned a bit more money this year, King said they would have invested it right back into the team by funding trips to Outside tournaments and games to develop the team more.

They also could have brought the imported players up to Whitehorse for longer periods of time to allow the team to skate together in practices more before jumping into games.

King says they have developed a relationship with their sponsors this season that will carry on next year if they decide to go ahead.

"The same sponsors that we've had are going to be there, I'm sure of that,” he said.

For next year, however, King said they will need to rely on a bigger sponsor to supplement the ticket sale revenue.

While the attendance was small over the weekend, King is confident they have established a group of fans that they will see again if the team continues.

"There's a core of people that will be there to support no matter what,” King said.

He added that many of those fans gave helpful suggestions and encouraged the project throughout the year.

King himself hopes the team sees the light of day next year.

"I'm a fan of this type of hockey,” he said.

There was debate throughout the season that the number of imported players was too high. King said in Powell River the imported players generally don't play at home.

The AAA team is supported by revenue from Powell River's AA team, which is made up entirely of local players.

"That's a hockey hot bed,” King said of the community.

After season one, the Huskies' management team is not discouraged, and it appears Whitehorse's hockey fans could have a team to root for in the 2010/2011 season.