The organization's primary mission is to encourage, promote and improve the mankato AREA ICE hockey recreation program, to conduct ICE hockey tournaments and to select representative teams to participate in tournaments; to associate with other ICE hockey associations; to do ANY and ALL ACTS necessary or desirable in the furtherance of the foregoing purpose; to buy, sell, lease and otherwise DEAL in ALL kinds of property, real, personal and mixed, for the purpose of creating further interest in amateur hockey.