Penticton V's

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Penticton V's
founding 1951
resolution 1961
history Penticton V’s
1951–1961
Location Penticton , British Columbia
league Okanagan Senior League

The Penticton V's were a Canadian Amateur - ice hockey team in Penticton in the province of British Columbia . The team played from 1951 to 1961 in the regional Okanagan Senior League and took part in 1955 as the Canadian national ice hockey team in the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championship . The name V’s came from three types of peach, all of which began with V.

In the second season of the league and team existence, the Penticton V's already played for the Allan Cup , the most important trophy in Canadian amateur hockey. However, they lost the final of the 1952/53 season against the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, but in the 1953/54 season the V's succeeded in winning the Allan Cup against the Sudbury Wolves , making them the best Canadian amateur team. Then the entire team was sent to the ice hockey world championship in 1955 to take part there as the Canadian national team, since Canada sent the Allan Cup winners as a national team to international tournaments until 1963. The Penticton V's won the 1955 World Cup inGermany won the 16th world title for Canada. The Canadians thus returned the favor for the defeat a year earlier, when the Soviet national ice hockey team won the title fights on their first participation. Thus, the Penticton V's were the first Canadian national team to win over a Soviet national team (5-0 in the final).

Then the slow sinking of the V's began. The small town of Penticton was unable to support a first-class senior amateur team and so the team had to stop playing during the 1960/61 season, shortly before the entire league was dissolved.

Squad as the Canadian national team at the 1955 Ice Hockey World Championship
Ivan McLelland, Donald Moog, George McAvoy , Harold Tarala, John Taggart, Kevin Conway, Dino Mascotta, Dick Warwick, Bill Warwick , Grant Warwick , John McDonald, Douglas Kilburn, James Fairburn, Mike Shabaga, John McIntyre, James Middleton, Bernard Bath Middleton , Donald Berry

As a direct successor to the senior team V’s , there has been the junior team Penticton Vees since 1961 (under different names) , which successfully participates in the junior amateur league British Columbia Hockey League .