Creston Valley Thunder Cats
| Creston Valley Thunder Cats | |
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| City | Creston, British Columbia |
| League | Kootenay International Junior Hockey League |
| Conference | Kootenay |
| Division | Eddie Mountain |
| Founded | 1992–93 (RMJHL) |
| Home arena | Johnny Bucyk Arena |
| Colours | Deep Blue, Deep Red, Sky Blue, Silver and White |
| General manager |
 Jeff Dubois |
| Head coach |
Jeff Dubois |
| Website | crestonvalleythundercats.com |
| Franchise history | |
| 1992-99 | Creston Thunder (RMJHL) |
| 2000-present | Creston Valley Thunder Cats (KIJHL) |
The Creston Valley Thunder Cats are a junior 'B' ice hockey team based in Creston, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Eddie Mountain Division of the Kootenay Conference of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL). The Thunder Cats play their home games at Johnny Bucyk Arena. Michael Moore is the team's president, Jeff Dubois is the general manager and coach.
The Thunder Cats joined the KIJHL in 2000 as an expansion team, after they played junior 'A' in the RMJHL from 1992-99.
The Creston Valley Thunder Cats were named hosts of the 2017 Cyclone Taylor Cup, being the first time that the Creston Valley hosted the Junior B Provincial Championships.
Before the Thunder Cats, Creston also had a junior 'B' team in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL), the Creston Clippers, before folding in 1985.
The Creston Thunder were founded in 1992 as a junior 'A' team in the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League. By the 1998-99 season, the RMJHL had fallen to four teams and was playing a lot of interleague with the America West Hockey League. The Creston Thunder could not afford the travel and opted to leave the RMJHL, effectively forcing the league to fold, at the end of the 1999 playoffs. The team sat out for the 1999-00 season to reorganize. Prior to the 2000-01 season, the team was renamed the Creston Valley Thunder Cats and joined the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.
In the 2007-2008 season, Joe Martin and Mike Young were hired as co-coaches, with Joe Martin becoming the Head Coach and General Manager at the start of the 2008-2009 season. After each season of continuing to build a strong hockey program in Creston, and improving the team on the ice, at the end of the 2010-2011 season Joe Martin moved on to the Merritt Centennials of the BCHL as an assistant coach.
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