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Just before the 1929-1930 season a fire destroyed their home arena and the Cubs played all 18 scheduled home games on the road, divided between Vancouver, BC and Seattle, WA. [1] Moved to Tacoma, WA and became the Tacoma Tigers for the 1930-31 season, then folded.
It later expanded into the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island and was renamed the British Columbia Junior Hockey League in 1967. It was renamed the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) in 1995. The 2023–24 season was the BCHL's first season as an independent league, following its departure from Hockey Canada. [1]
In 1961, the heads of four Junior "B" hockey teams in the Okanagan region of British Columbia got together and formed the first Junior "A" league in British Columbia's history. The Okanagan-Mainline Junior "A" Hockey League (OMJHL) originally consisted of the Kamloops Jr. Rockets , the Kelowna Buckaroos , the Penticton Jr. Vees , and the Vernon ...
The history of the Vancouver Canucks begins when the team joined the National Hockey League (NHL). Founded as an expansion team in 1970 along with the Buffalo Sabres, the Vancouver Canucks were the first NHL team to be based in Vancouver. They adopted the name of the minor professional hockey team that had existed in Vancouver since 1945.
A new team was formed in 1918 and again were dubbed the Victoria Aristocrats, with players from the folded Portland Rosebuds. In 1922 they changed their name to the Victoria Cougars . Led by coach Lester Patrick , the Cougars would win the Stanley Cup in 1925 against the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The Abbotsford Canucks franchise is one of the oldest professional hockey franchises in existence, dating back to 1932, when the team was known as the Quebec Beavers.In 1935, the franchise moved to Springfield and became the Indians, reviving the name after the original Indians franchise ceased operations during the 1932–33 Canadian-American Hockey League season.
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The team's first NHL jerseys, worn from the inaugural season of 1970–71 (modified for the 1972–73 season) until the end of the 1977–78 season, featured a hockey stick in the shape of a shallow "V" superimposed on a blue rink-shaped rectangle forming the letter "C", designed by North Vancouver artist Joe Borovich. [154]