Grande Prairie Storm

Grande Prairie Storm
City	Grande Prairie, Alberta
League	Alberta Junior Hockey League
Division	North
Founded	1966
Home arena	Revolution Place
Colours	Navy blue, yellow and white
Franchise history
1966 - 19xx	Grande Prairie Jr. Athletics
19xx - 1989	Grande Prairie North Stars
1991 - 1995	Grande Prairie Chiefs
1995 - present	Grande Prairie Storm

The Grande Prairie Storm are an ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. They play in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada at the Canada Games Arena, capacity 3228, also known as the Crystal Centre.

The Grande Prairie North Stars were members of the Peace Junior B Hockey League in the early 1970s. When the Quesnel Millionaires and Prince George Spruce Kings joined the league in 1975, the league became the Peace-Cariboo Junior Hockey League. In 1980, the league was promoted to Junior A and the North Stars with it. The North Stars were not financially strong and ended up sitting out two years (1989-1991). They came back as the Grande Prairie Chiefs in 1991, but the league had brought in teams from the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League and reformed as the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League.

The Grande Prairie Storm franchise is the successor to the Grande Prairie Chiefs of the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League. The Storm came into being after a community led group bought the team with the goal of paying off its $150,000 in debts, and restoring junior A hockey to prominence in the Peace Country. Already having a brand new arena, the Canada Games Arena, built for the 1995 Canada Winter Games.

In 1996, the Storm jumped to the AJHL, where they have competed since. The Storm have never failed to qualify for the post season until 2014. In 2004, the Storm won their first AJHL championship. They also hosted the Royal Bank Cup tournament that season, however they failed to win the Canadian national championship.

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