Kootenay Ice

Kootenay ICE

City	Cranbrook, British Columbia
League	Western Hockey League
Conference	Eastern
Division	Central
Founded	1996
Home arena	Western Financial Place
Colours	Blue, Black and Bronze
General manager	Jeff Chynoweth
Head coach	Luke Pierce
Captain	Luke Philp
Championships	2002 Memorial Cup Champions 2000, 2002, 2011 WHL Champions
Website	www.kootenayice.net
Franchise history
1996–1998	Edmonton Ice
1998–present	Kootenay ICE

2002 Memorial Cup Champions

The Kootenay ICE are a major junior ice hockey team based in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and competing in the Western Hockey League (WHL). The team plays its home games at Western Financial Place, also nicknamed the RecPlex.

The franchise was founded in 1996 as the Edmonton Ice, and moved to Cranbrook in 1998. The Ice won the Memorial Cup in 2002, and also participated in 2000 and 2011, after having won the WHL championship.

The move of the ICE to Cranbrook resulted in the folding of the local Junior A powerhouse Cranbrook Colts and possibly the entire troubled Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League that the Colts were the top team in. All of the remaining five RMJHL franchises from the Kootenays dropped to the Junior B Kootenay International Junior Hockey League within years of the Ice coming to the region.

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Updated January 26, 2017.