New Westminster Royals (WHL)

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New Westminster Royals
founding 1945
resolution 1959
history New Westminster Royals
1945–1959
Portland Buckaroos
1960–1976
Location New Westminster , British Columbia
league Pacific Coast Hockey League (1945–1952)
Western Hockey League (1952–1959)

The New Westminster Royals were a Canadian ice hockey franchise of the Western Hockey League from New Westminster , British Columbia .

history

The New Westminster Royals were founded for the 1945/46 season as a franchise of the Pacific Coast Hockey League . Their name was based on a team of the same name that had played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1911 to 1914 . They won the PCHL championship title, the Lester Patrick Cup , in the 1949/50 season . After the PCHL was dissolved, the team joined the successor league Western Hockey League for the 1952/53 season . In this they played for seven years before they stopped playing in 1959. The name New Westminster Royals was later used by several junior teams of the British Columbia Hockey League .

The franchise was relocated to Portland , Oregon in 1960 , where they subsequently played as the Portland Buckaroos in the WHL.

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season GP W. L. T OTL SOL Pts GF GA space Playoffs
1945-46 58 26th 32 0 - - 52 228 268 4th, North
1946-47 60 29 29 2 - - 60 257 270 4th, North
1947-48 66 27 38 1 - - 55 293 322 4th, North
1948-49 70 39 26th 5 - - 83 285 229 1st, North
1949-50 71 36 19th 16 - - 88 291 233 1st, North Lester Patrick Cup
1950-51 70 38 24 8th - - 84 267 205 2., PCHL
1951-52 70 40 19th 11 - - 91 286 200 1., PCHL
1952-53 70 29 33 8th - - 66 217 254 6th, WHL
1953-54 70 28 34 8th - - 64 218 261 6th, WHL
1954-55 70 29 32 9 - - 67 249 299 5th, WHL
1955-56 70 31 37 2 - - 64 238 258 3rd, WHLC
1956-57 70 34 31 5 - - 73 215 235 2nd, WHLC
1957-58 70 39 28 3 - - 81 254 224 2nd, WHLC
1958-59 70 23 45 2 - - 48 237 301 5th, WHLC

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