Williams Lake Stampeders
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The Williams Lake Stampeders are an intermediate and senior hockey ice hockey
team in Williams Lake, British Columbia
.
The senior team played in the Cariboo Hockey League
from the league's founding in 1936 until 1979. The Stampeders won the league title twice, in 1960-61 and 1962-63.
The team was revived in 1996 after the Junior "A" Williams Lake Mustangs. It has mostly played in the Central Interior Hockey League since then. In 2009 the Stampeders won the Coy Cup
, the senior championship of British Columbia. In 2010 the Stampeders won their first Central Interior Hockey League Championship with a two game sweep of the Kitimat Ice Demons. The team would then go on to a third place finish in the Coy Cup, which was hosted in Powell River, British Columbia
.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
team in Williams Lake, British Columbia
Williams Lake, British Columbia
Williams Lake, is a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the central part of a region known as the Cariboo, it is the largest urban centre between Kamloops and Prince George, with a population of 11,150 in city limits....
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The senior team played in the Cariboo Hockey League
Cariboo Hockey League
The Cariboo Hockey League was a senior and intermediate ice hockey league in the Cariboo District of British Columbia. It operated within the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association.-History:...
from the league's founding in 1936 until 1979. The Stampeders won the league title twice, in 1960-61 and 1962-63.
The team was revived in 1996 after the Junior "A" Williams Lake Mustangs. It has mostly played in the Central Interior Hockey League since then. In 2009 the Stampeders won the Coy Cup
Coy Cup
-History:The trophy was donated to the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association by Colonel Coy of the 50th Gordon Highlanders of Victoria, British Columbia.The Coy Cup was first awarded to the Enderby Hockey Club in the 1922-23 season....
, the senior championship of British Columbia. In 2010 the Stampeders won their first Central Interior Hockey League Championship with a two game sweep of the Kitimat Ice Demons. The team would then go on to a third place finish in the Coy Cup, which was hosted in Powell River, British Columbia
Powell River, British Columbia
Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Malaspina Strait, that part of the larger Georgia Strait between Texada Island and the Mainland...
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External links
- http://www.wlstampeders.com