The Victoria Grizzlies are a junior ice hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia . They are members of the Island Division of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). They play their home games at The Q Centre . The franchise was founded in 1994 as the Victoria Salsa .
5-662: The Victoria Cougars were created as a Junior A team, playing out of Victoria, British Columbia , which joined the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) as an expansion team for the start of the 1967–68 season. This brought the league to a total of six teams. After a 1971 realignment of junior hockey into " Major Junior " and " Tier II Junior A ", the Cougars joined the Western Canadian Hockey League (WCHL), now
10-769: A major junior ice hockey team based in Victoria, British Columbia that played in the WCHL (Western Canadian Hockey League) a precursor to the Western Hockey League between 1971 and 1994. Prior to 1971, the Cougars were members of the Pacific Coast Junior Hockey League (1962–1967) and the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (1967–1971). The Cougars played their home games at the Victoria Memorial Arena , which
15-739: The Western Hockey League . In 1994 the Cougars relocated to Prince George, British Columbia . In 1990, the BCHL's Cowichan Valley Capitals relocated to Victoria from Duncan, British Columbia and became the Victoria Warriors. The Warriors returned to Duncan in 1993 and became the Cowichan Valley Capitals again, so in 1994 the Victoria Salsa joined the BCHL as an expansion team. At the start of
20-922: The 2006–07 season, the team was renamed as the Victoria Grizzlies. The Grizzlies hosted and played in the 2009 Royal Bank Cup , won by the Vernon Vipers . In the 2013–14 season they won the Island Division championship after beating Powell River 4–2 in game six. Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points Fred Page Cup Mowat Cup Cliff McNabb Memorial Trophy Chevrolet Cup Brett Hull Trophy Joe Tennant Memorial Trophy Bob Fenton Trophy Top Defenceman Trophy Vern Dye Trophy Bruce Allison Memorial Trophy Victoria Cougars (WHL) The Victoria Cougars were
25-591: Was demolished in 2003. They won the WHL championship in 1981. The team moved to Prince George, British Columbia in 1994 and are now the Prince George Cougars . The Cougars earned several WHL records during their time in Victoria, both for most wins (60 in 1980–81 ) and for fewest points (12 in 1989–90 ). Their five wins that season set a WHL record for futility within a 72-game season, which included
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