Tri-City Americans

Tri-City Americans
founding	1988
history	Calgary Buffaloes 1966–1967 Calgary Centennials 1967–1977 Billings Bighorns 1977–1982 Nanaimo Islanders 1982–1983 New Westminster Bruins 1983–1988 Tri-City Americans since 1988
Stadion	Toyota Center
Location	Kennewick , Washington
Team colors	navy blue, red, silver, white
league	Western Hockey League
Conference	Western Conference
division	US division
Head coach	Mike Williamson
General manager	Bob Tory
Memorial Cups	no
Ed Chynoweth Cups	no

The Tri-City Americans are an ice hockey team from Kennewick , part of the Tri-Cities in Washington state . The team has played in one of Canada's three highest junior ice hockey leagues, the Western Hockey League (WHL) , since 1988 .

history

The New Westminster Bruins from the Western Hockey League were relocated to Kennewick in 1988 and renamed Tri-City Americans. After they had always reached the playoffs for the Ed Chynoweth Cup in the first eight years of its existence , the team missed this for the first time in the 1996/97 season. In the following six years they reached the playoffs only three times, but since 2003 the team from Washington has continuously improved and has always reached the playoffs since then. The Americans achieved their greatest success when they reached the final of the Western Conference in the 2007/08 season, in which they were defeated by the Spokane Chiefs in the best-of-seven series with just 3: 4 wins. They also won the US division twice in a row (2008 and 2009).

Logos

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  Logo from 1988 to 1991

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  Current logo since 2008

Former players

The following players who were active for the Tri-City Americans played in the National Hockey League during their career :

• Stu Barnes
• Milan Bartovič
• Alexander Boikov
• Brian Boucher
• Jason Bowen
• Mike Busniuk
• Brandon Carlo
• Eric Comrie
• Kimbi Daniels
• Brad Ference
• Dan Focht
• Scott Gomez
• Olaf Koelzig
• Zenith Komarniski
• Jaroslav Kristek
• Jason LaBarbera
• Daymond Langkow
• Scott Levins
• Bill Lindsay
• Brooks Macek
• Jason Marshall
• Josef Melichar
• Steve Passmore
• Stephen Peat
• Ronald Petrovický
• Chet Pickard
• Carey Price
• Michael Rasmussen
• Terry Ryan
• Terran Sandwith
• Ray Schultz
• Todd Simpson
• Dan Smith
• Sheldon Souray
• Jaroslav Svejkovský
• Billy Tibbetts
• Terry Virtue
• Vladimír Vůjtek
• BJ Young

Blocked numbers

The following numbers are no longer assigned by the Tri-City Americans:

• 8 Brian Sakic
• 14 Stu Barnes , Todd Klassen
• 33 Olaf Koelzig

Team records

Career records

Games: 355 Brent Ascroft

Goals: 159 Daymond Langkow

Assists: 297 Brian Sakic

Points: 429 Brian Sakic

Penalty Minutes: 735 Jason Bowen

Web links

• Official website (English).
• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Tri-City Americans
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Tri-City Americans