The Portage Terriers are a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Portage la Prairie , Manitoba , Canada. They are members of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League , a part of the Canadian Junior Hockey League .
6-762: The Portage Terriers were founded in 1932. Ten years later the Terriers won the Turnbull Cup as Manitoba junior champions and went on to defeat the Oshawa Generals to win the Memorial Cup . Their roster included Joe Bell , Gordon Bell , Billy Gooden , Lin Bend , Jack MacDonald , Wally Stefaniw, Bobby Love, Oliver "Bud" Ritchie, Bill Heindl Sr. , Jack O'Reilly, Joe Ledoux, Lloyd Smith and Don Campbell. A shortage of players following World War II forced
12-509: Is Blake Spiller, who has held the position since 2006. Spiller is the winningest coach in the team's history. The 1942 and 1972-73 Portage Terriers have been inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame under the team category. Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Turnbull Cup Too Many Requests If you report this error to
18-541: The Pembroke Lumber Kings to win the 1973 Centennial Cup . The team endured some tough years following their Centennial Cup appearance and it was not until 1989 that the Terriers would recapture the league title. Since the mid-2000s, the Terriers have been the MJHL's most dominant franchise, winning nine Turnbull Cups , three ANAVET Cups, and one national championship ( 2015 ). During the 2014-15 season,
24-672: The Terriers set a new league record by posting a winning percentage of .917 during the regular season, after which they went undefeated through the playoffs to capture the Turnbull Cup. The Terriers finished second at the Western Canada Cup and then moved on to host the 2015 Royal Bank Cup in Portage la Prairie, where they captured the national title with a victory over the Carleton Place Canadians in
30-537: The Terriers to cease operations in 1947. The Portage Terriers would be reborn twenty years later as members of the new Central Manitoba Junior Hockey League . The CMJHL lasted only one season before it merged with the MJHL. The Terriers became a Junior 'A' club following the reorganization of Canadian junior hockey in 1970. In 1972-73, the Terriers won the ANAVET Cup as Manitoba- Saskatchewan champions and Abbott Cup as Western Canadian champions, and then defeated
36-630: The championship game. The 2020 national championship , rechristened as the Centennial Cup, was also to be played in Portage la Prairie but cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic . The Terriers have played at Stride Place, originally named the Portage Credit Union Centre, since 2010. Prior to this, the Terriers played at the Portage Centennial Arena . The team's head coach and general manager
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