Victoria Cougars (WHL)

Victoria Cougars
founding	1971
resolution	1994
history	Victoria Cougars 1971–1994 Prince George Cougars since 1994
Stadion	Victoria Memorial Arena
Location	Victoria , British Columbia
Team colors	blue, red, gold, white
league	Western Hockey League
Memorial Cups	no
Ed Chynoweth Cups	1980/81

The Victoria Cougars were a Canadian ice hockey team based in Victoria , British Columbia . The team played from 1971 to 1994 in one of the top three Canadian junior ice hockey leagues, the Western Hockey League (WHL).

history

The Victoria Cougars were founded in 1971 as a franchise of the Western Hockey League . After they had missed the playoffs in their first three seasons, they reached the WHL final for the first time in the 1979/80 season, in which they were subject to the Regina Pats . In the following year the Cougars were again in the final, but this time they beat the Calgary Wranglers with 4-1 wins in the best-of-seven series. This year, the British Columbia team also achieved a WHL record with 60 wins in the regular season. Subsequently, the Victoria Cougars could no longer build on this success, so that they missed the playoffs eight times in the following 13 years. They also achieved another league-wide record in the 1989/90 season, which is still valid. In 72 games, the Cougars won only five times and scored twelve points, which was the worst performance of the season by a WHL team.

Before the 1994/95 season, the franchise was relocated to Prince George , British Columbia , where it has since participated in the game operations of the WHL under the name Prince George Cougars .

Former players

The following players who were active for the Victoria Cougars played in the National Hockey League during their career :

Greg C. Adams Micah Aivazoff Murray Bannerman Len Barrie Fred Berry Wayne Bianchin Alexander Boikov Mel Bridgman Don Cairns Rich Chernomaz Kim Clackson Glen Cochrane Geoff Courtnall Russ Courtnall Paul Cyr

Gary Donaldson Kevin Evans Tony Feltrin Wade Flaherty Curt Fraser Grant drove Lorry Gloeckner Richard Hajdu Archie Henderson Matt Hervey Al Hill Garry Howatt Brent Hughes Stu Kulak Rick Lapointe

Mike Leclerc Danny Lucas Gary Lupul David Mackey Tom Martin Chris Mason Jeff McDill Bob McGill Jack McIlhargey Jim McKenzie John Mokosak Mark Morrison John Newberry Brad Palmer

Steve Passmore Barry Pederson George Pesut Ken Priestlay Gordie Roberts Geordie Robertson Torrie Robertson Joel Savage Greg Tebbutt Mike Toal Alexander Vasilevski Terry Virtue Simon Wheeldon Darryl Williams

Team records

Career records

Games: 265 Curt Fraser

Goals: 249 Mark Morrison

Assists: 235 Mark Morrison

Points: 394 Mark Morrison

Penalty Minutes: 713 Torrie Robertson

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database Statistics Victoria Cougars
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Victoria Cougars