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150-594: The Notre Dame Hounds were founded by Athol Murray out of the College of Notre Dame, which was renamed after Murray in 1981. Murray moved to Regina from Toronto in 1922, where he had earlier established the Argos sports club, and he brought many students with him to Saskatchewan and founded the Regina Argos program. Murray was assigned to Wilcox in 1933 and began teaching at St. Augustine School, which had been established in 1920 by

300-632: A 13-year extension worth $ 72 million on December 1, 2009. On April 6, 2010, the Hawks won their 50th game of the 2009–10 season against the Dallas Stars , setting a new franchise record for wins in a season. The next night, the Blackhawks notched their 109th point of the season in a game against the St. Louis Blues, setting another franchise record. The Blackhawks made the playoffs for the second consecutive season with

450-451: A Native American of the Sauk nation who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois. McLaughlin named the new hockey team in honor of the military unit, making it one of many sports team names using Native Americans as icons. However, unlike the military division, the team's name was spelled in two words as "Black Hawks" until 1986, when the club officially became the "Blackhawks", based on

600-615: A career season with 30 goals and 55 assists) from Detroit. Hull, Mikita, Pilote, and Hall became preeminent stars of the team, and all four would eventually be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . After two first-round exits at the hands of the eventual champions from Montreal in 1959 and 1960 , it was expected the Canadiens would once again defeat the Hawks when they met in the semifinals in 1961 . A defensive plan that completely wore down Montreal's superstars worked, however, as Chicago won

750-648: A contemporary dance company. The Royal Saskatchewan Museum (the present 1955 structure a Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee project ) dates from 1906. The old Post Office at Scarth Street and 11th Avenue, temporarily used as a city hall after the demolition of the 1906 City Hall, is now home to the Globe Theatre , founded in 1966 as "Saskatchewan's first professional theatre since 1927." Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Cathedral and Knox-Metropolitan United Church have particularly impressive Casavant Frères pipe organs, maintain substantial musical establishments and are frequently

900-404: A curse on this team that will hoodoo it until the end of time." The Curse of Muldoon was born – although Coleman admitted years after the fact that he had fabricated the whole incident – and became one of the first widely known sports "curses." While the team would go on to win three Stanley Cups in its first 39 years of existence, it did so without ever having finished in first place, either in

1050-527: A large concert and live theatre venue for many years after the loss to fire of the Regina Theatre in 1938 and the demolition of the 1906 City Hall in 1964 at a time when preservation of heritage architecture was not yet a fashionable issue. But until the demolition of downtown cinemas which doubled as live theatres the lack was not urgent, and Darke Hall on the Regina College campus of the university provided

1200-439: A new University of Saskatchewan campus in the southeast end of the park. The master plan has been subsequently revised every five to seven years since, most recently in 2016. Wascana Centre has made Regina as enjoyable and fulfilling for residents as it had long been the " metropole " for farmers and residents of small neighbouring towns. Despite the setting, improbable though it always was compared with other more likely sites for

1350-605: A population density of 1,266.2/km (3,279.4/sq mi) in 2021. At the census metropolitan area (CMA) level in the 2021 census, the Regina CMA had a population of 249,217 living in 100,211 of its 108,120 total private dwellings, a change of 5.3% from its 2016 population of 236,695 . With a land area of 4,323.66 km (1,669.37 sq mi), it had a population density of 57.6/km (149.3/sq mi) in 2021. The 2021 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprise 45,210 persons or 20.3% of

1500-564: A range of professional services and tradespeople, financial institutions, and a number of retail establishments." It was the scene of outdoor filming sequences in the CBC television series "Little Mosque on the Prairie." White City and Emerald Park are quasi-suburbs of Regina, as have become Balgonie , Pense, Grand Coulee, Pilot Butte and Lumsden in the Qu'Appelle Valley, some 16 km (10 mi) to

1650-634: A record of 46–24–12, putting them in fourth place in the Western Conference with 104 points. The Blackhawks clinched a playoff berth for the first time since the 2001–02 season with a 3–1 win over the Nashville Predators on April 3. On April 8, with a shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets , the Blackhawks clinched their first 100-point season in 17 years. The Blackhawks defeated the fifth-seeded Calgary Flames in six games to advance to

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1800-720: A regular season record of 52–22–8. They defeated the Nashville Predators in six games in the first round before defeating the third-seeded Vancouver Canucks for the second straight year, again in six games. The Blackhawks then swept the top-seeded San Jose Sharks in the conference finals, advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1992 , where they played the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blackhawks prevailed in six games to secure their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, and their first since 1961 , ending

1950-520: A renaissance as a result of the excellent roads that for many decades seemed likely to doom them; they – and to some extent the nearby city of Moose Jaw – are now undergoing a mild resurgence as commuter satellites for Regina. Qu'Appelle , at one time intended to be the metropole for the original District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories (as they then were), saw during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Regina cottagers pass through en route to

2100-535: A rule, paid almost no attention to the Black Hawks. Nearly every trade made between Detroit and Chicago ended up being Red Wing heists. As a result, for the next several years, the Black Hawks were the model of futility in the NHL. Between 1945 and 1958 , they only made the playoffs twice. In 1950, Norris' eldest son, James D. Norris , and Red Wings minority owner Arthur Wirtz (the senior Norris' original partner in buying

2250-654: A score of 3–2, with Dwayne Norris scoring the game-winning goal in the third period to secure the national championship. Brind'Amour led the tournament in scoring and was named its most valuable player. In 2013, the 1987–88 Hounds squad was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. Although the Hounds topped the SJHL standings the following season, they fell short of defending their title. The team's most successful season since 1988 came in 2014–15, when they returned to

2400-601: A second weir with a smaller reservoir in A.E. Wilson Park. Regina is a travel destination for residents of southeastern Saskatchewan and the immediately adjacent regions of the neighbouring US states of North Dakota and Montana, and an intermediate stopping point for travellers on the Trans-Canada Highway. Tourism is promoted by Tourism Regina . Attractions for visitors in Regina include: The former large-scale Children's Day Parade and Travellers' Day Parade during Fair Week in

2550-461: A single- or multi-division format. The Black Hawks proceeded to have the worst record in the league in 1927–28 , winning only seven of 44 games. For the 1928–29 season , the Black Hawks were originally slated to play in the newly built Chicago Stadium , but due to construction delays and a dispute between McLaughlin and arena promoter Paddy Harmon, they instead divided their time between the Coliseum,

2700-868: A small concert and stage venue. Annual festivals in and near Regina through the year include the Regina International Film Festival ; Cathedral Village Arts Festival; the Craven Country Jamboree; the Regina Folk Festival ; Queen City Pride ; the Queer City Cinema film festival; the Regina Dragon Boat Festival; and Mosaic, mounted by the Regina Multicultural Council, which earned Heritage Canada's designation of 2004 "Cultural Capital of Canada" (in

2850-445: A small fraction of the originally anticipated population explosion as population centre of the new province. By this time, Saskatchewan was considered the third province of Canada in both population and economic indicators. Thereafter, Saskatchewan never recovered its early promise and Regina's growth slowed and at times reversed. In 1933, Regina hosted the first national convention Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (predecessor of

3000-407: A source of domestic water and wells into the aquifer under Regina, Wascana Lake had ceased to have a utilitarian purpose and had become a primarily recreational facility, with bathing and boating its principal uses. It was drained in the 1930s as part of a government relief project; 2,100 men widened and dredged the lake bed and created two islands using only hand tools and horse-drawn wagons. During

3150-449: A successful AAA girls' team. The team played in the national championships in 2010 and 2011, finishing second in 2010 and winning the 2011 Esso Cup as national champions. In 2022, both the boys' and girls' Hounds squads advanced to their respective national championships in the same season for the first time since 2010. The Hounds' first season back in the SJHL, 1987–88, would prove to be the most successful in club history, despite most of

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3300-424: A team and lost in the third round in 1985 . In 1983, Arthur Wirtz died and the club came under the sole control of his son Bill Wirtz. Although the Black Hawks continued to make the playoffs each season, the club began a slow decline, punctuated with an appearance in the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals . During the 1985 playoff series against Edmonton, the Black Hawks and their fans started a tradition of cheering during

3450-513: Is in the NRC Plant Hardiness Zone 3b. Regina has warm summers and cold, dry winters, prone to extremes at all times of the year. Average annual precipitation is 389.7 mm (15.34 in) and is heaviest from May through August, with June being the wettest month with an average of 75 mm (2.95 in) of precipitation. The average daily temperature for the year is 3.1 °C (37.6 °F). The lowest temperature ever recorded

3600-518: Is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . The city is the second-largest in the province, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 census , Regina had a city population of 226,404, and a metropolitan area population of 249,217. It is governed by Regina City Council . The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159 . Regina

3750-555: The 1927 first-round playoff series to the Boston Bruins. Following the series, McLaughlin fired head coach Pete Muldoon . According to Jim Coleman , sportswriter for the Toronto -based Globe and Mail , McLaughlin felt that the Hawks were good enough to finish first. Muldoon disagreed, and in a fit of pique, McLaughlin fired him. According to Coleman, Muldoon responded by yelling, "Fire me, Major, and you'll never finish first. I'll put

3900-414: The 2007–08 season , the franchise experimented with a partnership with Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN-TV by airing selected Blackhawks home games on television. During the next season, Comcast and WGN began airing all of the team's regular season games. Rocky also named John McDonough , former president of Major League Baseball 's Chicago Cubs , as the Blackhawks' new president. After taking over

4050-575: The 2009 Winter Classic on a temporary ice rink at the Chicago Cubs' home park Wrigley Field on New Year's Day against fellow " Original Six " members, the Detroit Red Wings; the Red Wings defeated Chicago 6–4. On June 16, Pat Foley returned as the Blackhawks' TV play-by-play man, replacing Dan Kelly ; Foley called Blackhawks games from 1981 to 2006, and spent the next two years broadcasting for

4200-758: The Detroit Olympia , and the Peace Bridge Arena in Fort Erie, Ontario , before moving to Chicago Stadium the following season. By 1931 , with goal-scorer Johnny Gottselig , Cy Wentworth on defense , and Charlie Gardiner in goal , the Hawks reached their first Stanley Cup Finals, but fizzled in the final two games against the Montreal Canadiens . They had another stellar season in 1932 , but that did not translate into playoff success. However, two years later, Gardiner led his team to victory by shutting out

4350-529: The Minnesota North Stars and St. Louis Blues in the playoffs before losing to another surprise team, the Vancouver Canucks, who made the Stanley Cup Finals . Chicago proved they were no fluke the next season, also making the third round before losing to the eventual runner-up Edmonton Oilers . After an off-year in 1984 , the Hawks again faced a now fresh-off-a-ring Edmonton offensive juggernaut of

4500-726: The NDP ). At the convention, the CCF adopted a programme known as the Regina Manifesto , which set out the new party's goals. In 1935, Regina gained notoriety for the Regina Riot, an incident of the On-to-Ottawa Trek . (See The Depression, the CCF and the Regina Riot .) Beginning in the 1930s, Regina became known as a centre of considerable political activism and experimentation as its people sought to adjust to new, reduced economic realities, including

4650-640: The National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference and have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. They are one of the " Original Six " NHL teams, along with the Detroit Red Wings , Montreal Canadiens , Toronto Maple Leafs , Boston Bruins , and New York Rangers . Since 1995 , the team has played their home games at

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4800-591: The North-West Rebellion when troops were mostly able to be transported by train on the CPR from eastern Canada as far as Qu'Appelle Station , before marching to the battlefield in the further Northwest – Qu'Appelle having been the major debarkation and distribution centre until 1890 when the completion of the Qu’Appelle, Long Lake, and Saskatchewan Railway linked Regina with Saskatoon and Prince Albert . Subsequently,

4950-1063: The Provincial Legislative Building , both campuses of the University of Regina , First Nations University of Canada , the Royal Saskatchewan Museum , the Regina Conservatory (in the original Regina College buildings), the Saskatchewan Science Centre , the MacKenzie Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts . Residential neighbourhoods include precincts beyond the historic city centre are historically or socially noteworthy neighbourhoods – namely Lakeview and The Crescents, both of which lie directly south of downtown. Immediately to

5100-881: The Regina Riot of the Western Women's Canadian Football League . The Riot have won three league championships, in 2015, 2017, and 2018. Other sports teams in Regina include the four-time Memorial Cup champion Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League , the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Football League , the Prairie Fire of the Rugby Canada Super League , the Regina Red Sox of

5250-667: The Roman Catholic Cathedral has been converted into townhouses. Recently older buildings have been put to new uses, including the old Normal School on the Regina College campus of the University of Regina (now the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios ) and the old Post Office on the Scarth Street Mall. The Warehouse District , immediately adjacent to the central business district to the north of

5400-588: The Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (now the Conexus Arts Centre). Concerts and recitals are performed both by local and visiting musicians in the Centre of the Arts and assorted other auditoriums including the University of Regina . The Regina Conservatory of Music operates in the former girls' residence wing of the Regina College building. The Regina Little Theatre began in 1926, and performed in Regina College before building its own theatre in 1981. Regina lacked

5550-557: The Sisters of Charity of St. Louis , where he would found the College of Notre Dame in 1933. He brought his love of hockey with him—Murray was known to say, "I love God, Canada, and hockey—not always in that order." Murray coached the team until 1947. The Hounds hockey team joined the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) in 1970, although the team struggled to compete and the arrangement last only until 1976. After that,

5700-554: The Toronto Maple Leafs . Black Hawks goaltender Mike Karakas was injured and could not play, forcing a desperate Chicago team to pull minor-leaguer Alfie Moore out of a Toronto bar and onto the ice. Moore played one game and won it. Toronto refused to let Moore play the next, so Chicago used Paul Goodman in Game 2 and lost. However, for the third and fourth games, Karakas was fitted with a special skate to protect his injured toe, and

5850-544: The United Center , which they share with the National Basketball Association 's Chicago Bulls ; both teams previously played at the now-demolished Chicago Stadium . The Blackhawks' original owner was Frederic McLaughlin , a "hands-on" owner who fired many coaches during his ownership and led the team to win two Stanley Cup titles in 1934 and 1938 . After McLaughlin's death in 1944, the team came under

6000-606: The Western Canadian Baseball League , and the University of Regina's Regina Cougars / Regina Rams of U Sports . Regina is also where all Water Polo players from Saskatchewan centralize, Regina's team being Water Polo Armada. Regina's curling teams have distinguished the city for many decades. Richardson Crescent commemorates the Richardson curling team of the 1950s. In recent years Olympic Gold medal winner Sandra Schmirler and her rink occasioned vast civic pride;

6150-441: The Western Hockey League for $ 100,000 from WHL president Frank Patrick in a deal brokered by Boston Bruins ' owner Charles Adams . However, only a month later, Hardwick's group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin . McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I . This division was nicknamed the "Blackhawk Division" after Black Hawk ,

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6300-617: The "Hound Line". As it happened, the three had never played on a line with the Hounds, as Clark played defence until joining the Maple Leafs. The 2015 Stanley Cup Finals between the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning featured four Hounds alumni in Lightning coach Jon Cooper and defenceman Braydon Coburn and Blackhawks players Scott Darling and Brad Richards . In addition to NHL draft picks, many Hounds have gone on to play in

6450-410: The 1894 Supreme Court of the North-West Territories building at Hamilton Street and Victoria Avenue in 1965. In 1962 Wascana Centre Authority was established to govern the sprawling 50-year-old, 930 ha (2,300 acres) urban park and legislative grounds. A 100-year plan was developed by World Trade Centre Architect Minoru Yamasaki and landscape architect Thomas Church , as part of developing

6600-453: The 1940s, many of the towns near Regina have steadily lost population as western Canada's agrarian economy reorganised itself from small family farm landholdings of a quarter-section (160 acres [65 ha], the original standard land grant to homesteaders ) to the multi-section (a "section" being 640 acres [260 ha]) landholdings that are increasingly necessary for economic viability. Some of these towns have enjoyed something of

6750-536: The 1950s. The long-established MacKenzie Art Gallery once occupied cramped quarters adjacent to Darke Hall on the University of Regina College Avenue Campus; since relocated to a large building at the southwest corner of the provincial government site, at Albert Street near 23rd Avenue. Donald M. Kendrick , Bob Boyer and Joe Fafard , now with significant international reputations, have been other artists from or once in Regina. The Regina Symphony Orchestra, Canada's oldest continuously performing orchestra, performs in

6900-546: The 1980s followed suit with public allegations, including Kenny Wray and Jason Duckworth. GP = Games Played , W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , OTL = Overtime Losses , GF = Goals For , GA = Goals Against , P = Points 1987–88 championship playoffs The following list includes some of the former Hounds who went on to play and/or coach in the National Hockey League. Regina, Saskatchewan Regina ( / r ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ n ə / ri- JEYE -nə )

7050-485: The 1990s on the periphery, together with a corresponding drift of entertainment venues (and all but one downtown cinema) to the city outskirts, had depleted the city centre. The former Hudson's Bay Company department store (previously the site of the Regina Theatre though long vacant after that burned to the ground) has been converted into offices; Globe Theatre , located in the old Post Office building at 11th Avenue and Scarth Street, Casino Regina and its show lounge in

7200-516: The 40,818 fans from the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Therefore, the total attendance for games hosted at the United Center is 871,337, good for an average of 21,783, which still led the NHL over Montreal's 21,273 average. The Blackhawks welcomed their one millionth fan of the season at the United Center before Game 6 of the conference semifinals on May 11, 2009. Prior to the 2009–10 season ,

7350-399: The AHL's Chicago Wolves. Foley was partnered with Ed Olczyk to broadcast all of the Blackhawks' games. On October 16, 2008, the Blackhawks relieved Denis Savard of his head coaching duties and replaced him with Joel Quenneville. Savard has since been brought back to the organization as an ambassador. The Blackhawks finished the 2008–09 regular season in second place in their division with

7500-412: The American National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); nineteen members of the 1987–88 team—nearly the entire roster—were given NCAA scholarships. Since 2021, the Hounds organization has been the subject of allegations of physical and sexual abuse by players who attended Notre Dame College and played hockey there in the 1980s. Todd Tisdale, whose brother Tim had starred for the Hounds in 1986, made

7650-463: The Black Hawks finished first, breaking the supposed "Curse of Muldoon", 23 years after the death of Frederic McLaughlin. However, they lost in the semifinals to Toronto, who went on to win their last Stanley Cup of the era. Afterward, Coleman, who first printed the story of the curse in 1943, admitted that he made the story up to break a writer's block he had as a column deadline approached. Before his death in 1966, one of James D. Norris' last moves in

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7800-424: The Blackhawks again finished well out of the playoffs with a 26–43–13 record, next-to-last in the Western Conference and second-worst in the NHL. The Blackhawks reached another low point on May 16, 2006, when they announced that popular TV/radio play-by-play announcer Pat Foley would not be brought back after 25 years with the team, a move unpopular amongst most fans; Foley then became the television/radio voice for

7950-436: The Blackhawks made another major free agent purchase, signing Marian Hossa to a 12-year, US$ 62.8 million contract. The team also acquired Tomas Kopecky , John Madden and Richard Petiot . In early July, general manager Dale Tallon and the Blackhawks management came under fire when the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) claimed that the team did not submit offers to their restricted free agents before

8100-411: The Blackhawks made several major roster changes before the season, trading Tuomo Ruutu , their longest-tenured player, to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for forward Andrew Ladd on February 26, 2008. Later that day, the Blackhawks traded captain Martin Lapointe to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in the 2008 NHL entry draft . On July 1, the first day of free agency,

8250-411: The Blackhawks the talented first-line caliber game breaker they desperately needed. The Havlat trade was soon followed by another major trade: winger and key Blackhawk player Kyle Calder was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for grinding defensive center Michal Handzus . The move caused a stir in Chicago, as Calder had won an increase in his contract through arbitration, which was accepted by

8400-417: The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup three times, in 2010 , 2013 and 2015 . Rocky died in July 2023, and his son, Danny Wirtz , was named chairman of the Blackhawks. On May 1, 1926, the NHL awarded an expansion franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston . At the same meeting, Hardwick arranged the purchase of the players of the Portland Rosebuds of

8550-420: The Bruins to the top of the NHL for several years and capture two Stanley Cups. In Boston, Esposito set numerous scoring records en route to a career as one of the NHL's all-time greats. Nonetheless, in the 1970–71 season , life was made easier for the Black Hawks, as in an attempt to better balance the divisions, the expansion Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks were both placed in the East Division while

8700-499: The CPR line, has become a desirable commercial and residential precinct as historic warehouses have been converted to retail, nightclubs and residential use. The city is situated on a broad, flat, treeless plain. There is an abundance of parks and greenspaces: all of its trees — some 300,000 — shrubs and other plants were hand-planted. As in other prairie cities, American elms were planted in front yards in residential neighbourhoods and on boulevards along major traffic arteries and are

8850-405: The Canadian Prairies particularly hard with their economic focus on dry land grain farming. The CCF (now the NDP , a major left-wing political party in Canada), formulated its foundational Regina Manifesto of 1933 in Regina. In 2007 Saskatchewan's agricultural and mineral resources came into new demand, and Saskatchewan was described as entering a new period of strong economic growth. Regina

9000-449: The Central Division with 79 points, but would finish ninth in the Western Conference, which would make them miss the playoffs by 13 points. A somber note was struck in February 2004, when ESPN named the Blackhawks the worst franchise in professional sports. Indeed, the Blackhawks were viewed with much indifference by Chicagoans for much of the 1990s and early 2000s due to anger over several policies instituted by then-owner Bill Wirtz, who

9150-471: The Chicago Wolves. With the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL entry draft , the team selected Jonathan Toews , who led the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey team to the 2006 NCAA Frozen Four . The Blackhawks were eager to make a splash in the free-agent market, and offered big money to many of the top free agents. However, they were denied, only being able to acquire two backup goaltenders in Patrick Lalime and Sebastien Caron . Chicago

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9300-410: The Detroit Red Wings in the final game of the Stanley Cup Finals ; Mush March scored the winning goal in double-overtime as the Hawks beat Detroit 1–0. In 1938 , the Black Hawks had a record of 14–25–9, almost missing the playoffs. They stunned the Canadiens and New York Americans on overtime goals in the deciding games of both semi-final series, advancing to the 1938 Stanley Cup Finals against

9450-423: The Finals after 19 years out of such status, winning 11 consecutive playoff games that year, setting an NHL record in the process. However, they were swept four games to none by the Mario Lemieux -led defending Stanley Cup champion, the Pittsburgh Penguins . In sweeping the Blackhawks, the Penguins tied the record Chicago had set only days before. Although the 4–0 sweep indicated Pittsburgh's dominance in games won,

9600-409: The First or Second All-Star goaltender eight out of nine seasons. Hull and Mikita especially were widely regarded as the most feared one-two punch in the league. However, despite a strong supporting cast which included Bill Hay , Ken Wharram , Phil Esposito , Moose Vasko , Doug Mohns , and Pat Stapleton , the Hawks never quite put it all together. In 1966–67 , the last season of the six-team NHL,

9750-420: The Hawks moved into the West Division . The Hawks became the class of the West overnight, rampaging to a 46–17–15 record and an easy first-place finish. With second-year goalie Tony Esposito (Phil's younger brother and winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy for Rookie of the Year the previous season), Hull, his younger brother Dennis , Mikita, and sterling defensemen Stapleton, Keith Magnuson and Bill White ,

9900-464: The Hawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals, losing to the Canadiens. A critical blow to the franchise came in 1972–73 with the start of the World Hockey Association (WHA). Long dissatisfied with how little he was paid as the NHL's marquee star, Hull jumped to the upstart Winnipeg Jets for a million-dollar contract. Former Philadelphia Flyers star Andre Lacroix joined him, having received very little ice time during his single season with Chicago, and

10050-413: The Hawks, but rather than ink their leading scorer, the team decided to address their need for a proven center by acquiring Handzus. Injuries to both Havlat and Handzus hurt the Blackhawks, and Smolinski was eventually traded at the trade deadline to the Vancouver Canucks. On November 26, 2006, Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon fired head coach Trent Yawney and appointed assistant coach Denis Savard as

10200-407: The Hounds defeated the Canucks in seven games—which included Joseph saving a penalty shot with two seconds remaining in game seven—to win the Abbott Cup and proceed to the Centennial Cup national championship. The Hounds, newly promoted to the Junior A ranks, were the youngest team in the history of the tournament. The Hounds advanced to the tournament final, where they defeated the Halifax Lions by

10350-406: The NHL was to arrange an expansion franchise in St. Louis , where he owned the St. Louis Arena . Tobin died in 1963, a vice president of the team until his death. Ownership now passed to Norris' longtime partner Arthur Wirtz and his son Bill Wirtz . The Wirtz–Norris partnership dated over three decades; Arthur Wirtz had been a minority partner in the syndicate the senior Norris put together to buy

10500-443: The Qu'Appelle Valley, and to the southeast the Kenosee Lake cottage country. Wascana Centre is a 9.3 km (3.6 sq mi) park built around Wascana Lake and designed in 1961 by Minoru Yamasaki — the Seattle-born architect best known as the designer of the original World Trade Center in New York – in tandem with his starkly modernist design for the new Regina Campus of the University of Saskatchewan . Wascana Lake

10650-494: The Qu'Appelle Valley; Highway 10, which bypassed Qu'Appelle, running directly from Balgonie to Fort Qu'Appelle off Highway Number 1, quickly ended this. Qu'Appelle has recently seen more interest taken in it as a place to live. Fort Qu'Appelle and its neighbouring resort villages on the Fishing Lakes remain a summer vacation venue of choice; Indian Head is far enough from Regina to have an autonomous identity but close enough that its charm and vitality attract commuters – it "has

10800-466: The Rangers to their first Stanley Cup in 54 years in 1994 . Belfour posted a 40-win season in 1992–93 as the Hawks looked to go deep yet again, and Chris Chelios accumulated career-high penalty time with 282 minutes in the box, but St. Louis stunned Chicago with a first-round sweep to continue Chicago's playoff losing streak. Although they finished near .500 in 1994 , the Blackhawks again qualified for

10950-501: The Red Wings 23 years earlier) took over the floundering club. They guided it through financial reversals, and rebuilt the team from there. One of their first moves was to hire former Detroit coach and general manager Tommy Ivan as general manager. In the late 1950s, the Hawks struck gold, acquiring three young prospects (forwards Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita and defenseman Pierre Pilote ), and obtaining both star goaltender Glenn Hall and veteran forward Ted Lindsay (who had just had

11100-507: The Red Wings in 1932. Goaltender Glenn Hall was drafted by the St. Louis Blues expansion team for the 1967–68 season , while Pierre Pilote was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Jim Pappin in 1968 . In the 1968–69 season, despite Bobby Hull breaking his own previous record of 54 goals in a season with 58, the Black Hawks missed the playoffs for the first time since 1958, and

11250-665: The Regina Rugby Club and renamed the Regina Roughriders in 1924 and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1946, the "Riders" are a community-owned team with a loyal fan base; out-of-town season ticket holders often travel 300–400 km (190–250 mi) or more to attend home games. The team has won the Grey Cup on four occasions, in 1966, 1989, 2007, and 2013. Regina is also home to a successful women's football team,

11400-463: The San Jose Sharks. The Blackhawks signed former Dallas Stars starting goalie Marty Turco as his replacement, but eventually turned to rookie Corey Crawford to become their full-time starting goaltender. The Blackhawks also acquired Viktor Stalberg from the Toronto Maple Leafs and signed rookies Nick Leddy and Marcus Kruger to three-year entry-level contracts. The Blackhawks also made

11550-623: The Sandra Schmirler Leisure Centre in east Regina commemorates her. Regina held the 1973 , 1983 , and 2011 World Men's Curling Championship . The city has two curling clubs: The Caledonian and the Highland . North-east of the city lies Kings Park Speedway , a ⅓-mile paved oval used for stock car racing since the late 1960s. Regina hosted the Western Canada Summer Games in 1975, and again in 1987, as well as being

11700-619: The Saskatchewan Genealogical Library also offer information for those interested in the people of Saskatchewan. Regina has a substantial proportion of its overall area dedicated as parks and green spaces, with biking paths, cross-country skiing venues, and other recreational facilities throughout the city. Wascana Lake, the venue for summer boating activities, is regularly cleared of snow in winter for skating, and there are toboggan runs both in Wascana Centre and downstream on

11850-530: The St. Louis Blues in five games after winning Game 1 of the series), the Blackhawks were consistently out of the playoffs from the 1997–98 season until the 2008–09 season , in most years finishing well out of contention, despite finishing in third place in the Central Division six times. Amonte left for the Phoenix Coyotes in the summer of 2002. During the 2002–03 season , the Blackhawks finished third in

12000-631: The Stanley Cup Finals, losing to the eventual champions, the Calgary Flames . The following season, the Hawks did prove they were late-round playoff material, running away with the Norris Division title, but, yet again, the third round continued to stymie them, this time against the eventual champion Oilers, despite 1970s Soviet star goaltender Vladislav Tretiak coming to Chicago to become the Blackhawks' goaltender coach. In 1990–91 , Chicago

12150-496: The Territories, the lieutenant-governor and council governed by fiat and there was little legitimate means of challenging such decisions outside the federal capital of Ottawa . There, the Territories were remote and of little concern. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll , wife of the then Governor General of Canada , named the new community Regina , in honour of her mother, Queen Victoria . Commercial considerations prevailed and

12300-576: The banks of Wascana Creek. Victoria Park is in the central business district and numerous green spaces throughout the residential subdivisions and subdivisions in the north and west of the city contain large ornamental ponds to add interest to residential precincts such as Rochdale, Lakewood, Lakeridge, Spruce Meadows, and Windsor Park. Older school playing fields throughout the city have also been converted into landscaped parks. The city operates five municipal golf courses, including two in King's Park northeast of

12450-427: The capitol, the efforts' results were favourable. The long-imperilled Government House was saved in 1981 after decades of neglect and returned to viceregal use, the former Anglican diocesan property at Broad Street and College Avenue is being redeveloped with strict covenants to maintain the integrity of the diocesan buildings and St Chad's School and the former Sacred Heart Academy building immediately adjacent to

12600-443: The city. Kings Park Recreation facility is also home to ball diamonds, picnic grounds, and stock car racing. Within half an hour's drive are the summer cottage and camping country and winter ski resorts in the Qu'Appelle Valley with Last Mountain and Buffalo Pound Lakes and the four Fishing Lakes of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa; slightly farther east are Round and Crooked Lakes, also in

12750-561: The co-operative movement and medicare. The disappearance of the Simpson's , Eaton's and Army & Navy retail department stores in or near the central business district and Simpsons-Sears to the north on Broad Street, left only the Hudson's Bay Company as a large department store in Regina-centre. This, with the proliferation of shopping malls beginning in the 1960s and " big box stores " in

12900-418: The conference finals, losing to the rival Detroit Red Wings. Also in 1994, management fired Wayne Messmer , popular singer of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Jeremy Roenick, Ed Belfour and Chris Chelios were all traded away as the Blackhawks faltered through the late 1990s, until they missed the playoffs by five points in 1998 for the first time in 29 years, one season short of tying the Boston Bruins' record for

13050-510: The conference semifinals for the first time since 1996. The team proceeded to defeat the third-seeded Vancouver Canucks in six games, and then played the then-Stanley Cup champion, the Detroit Red Wings, for the Western Conference Championship, losing the series in five games. During the 2008–09 season, the team led the NHL in home attendance, with a total of 912,155 spectators, averaging 22,247 per game. This figure includes

13200-528: The construction of the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (now the Conexus Arts Centre) as a Canadian Centennial project, a theatre and concert hall complex overlooking Wascana Lake which is one of the most acoustically perfect concert venues in North America; it is home to the Regina Symphony Orchestra (Canada's oldest continuously performing orchestra ), Opera Saskatchewan and New Dance Horizons,

13350-453: The deadline. In the worst-case scenario, the team's unsigned restricted free agents at the time, including Calder Memorial Trophy finalist Kris Versteeg , would have become unrestricted free agents. Despite the ordeal, the Blackhawks were able to sign Versteeg and all of their restricted free agents before the NHLPA could take further action. On July 14, 2009, the Blackhawks demoted Dale Tallon to

13500-420: The decade in all—but were never a successful Stanley Cup contender, losing 16-straight playoff games at one point. The team acquired legendary blueliner Bobby Orr from the Boston Bruins in 1976, but ill health forced him to sit out for most of the season, and he eventually retired in 1979, having played only 26 games for the Hawks. Stan Mikita did the same the following year after playing for Chicago for 22 years,

13650-571: The dominant Canadiens in four games. After McLaughlin died in December 1944, his estate sold the team to a syndicate headed by longtime team president Bill Tobin . However, Tobin was only a puppet for James E. Norris , who owned the rival Red Wings. Norris had also been the Black Hawks' landlord since his 1936 purchase of the Chicago Stadium. For the next eight years, the Norris-Tobin ownership, as

13800-480: The dominant species in the urban forest. In recent years the pattern of primary and high school grounds being acreages of prairie sports grounds has been re-thought and such grounds have been landscaped with artificial hills and parks. Newer residential subdivisions in the northwest and southeast have, instead of spring runoff storm sewers, decorative landscaped lagoons. The streetscape is now endangered by Dutch elm disease , which has spread through North America from

13950-500: The downtown business district, rail yards, warehouse district, and northern residential area. From 1920 to 1926 Regina used Single transferable vote (STV), a form of proportional representation, to elect its councillors. Councillors were elected in one at-large district. Each voter cast just a single vote, using a ranked transferable ballot. Regina grew rapidly until the beginning of the Great Depression , in 1929, though only to

14100-531: The draft. The team had never had a draft pick higher than third overall before, and used the pick to draft right wing Patrick Kane from the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). On September 26, 2007, longtime Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz died after a brief battle with cancer. He was succeeded by his son Rocky , who drastically altered his father's long-standing policies. Midway into

14250-473: The eastern seaboard and has now reached the Canadian prairies; for the time being it is controlled by pest management programs and species not susceptible to the disease are being planted; the disease has the potential to wipe out Regina's elm population. Regina experiences a warm summer humid continental climate ( Köppen: Dfb ), with more than 70% of average annual precipitation in the warmest six months, and

14400-415: The fall and winter of 2003–2004, Wascana Lake was again drained and dredged to deepen it while adding a new island, a promenade area beside Albert Street Bridge, water fountains, and a waterfall to help aerate the lake. Downstream from Wascana Lake, Wascana Creek continues to provide a lush parkland on its increasingly intensively developed perimeter; in the northwest quadrant of the city Wascana Creek has

14550-403: The final, the organization decided to move up a level, returning to Junior A hockey, and the Hounds were promoted back to the SJHL in 1987. After the promotion, the Hounds continued to operate their AAA team, which has gone on to further success, including back-to-back national titles in 2009 and 2010, and a record fifth national championship in 2018. Since the 1990s, the Hounds have also operated

14700-407: The first public allegations in late 2021. Tisdale has described a culture of hazing at the College, and accused officials there of ignoring and enabling physical and sexual violence. Tisdale pursued an apology from the school in the 1990s and in 2018 filed a statement of claim against the school; he re-filed in 2022, adding a second student to the claim. Other students who participated in the program in

14850-575: The former CPR train station, the Cornwall Centre and downtown restaurants now draw people downtown again. Many buildings of significance and value were lost during the period from 1945 through approximately 1970: Knox United Church was demolished in 1951; the Romanesque Revival city hall in 1964 (the failed shopping mall which replaced it is now office space for the Government of Canada ) and

15000-523: The goaltender he would later become) could not secure a win in Game 4, which ended in a 6–5 final in favor of Pittsburgh. The defending NBA champion Chicago Bulls were in their finals in 1992 , but won their championship in six. This was the only year the city of Chicago would host the NBA and NHL finals concurrently in the same year; Blackhawks head coach Mike Keenan would see this again in New York, when he coached

15150-413: The head coach. Savard had been the assistant coach of the team since 1997, a year after he retired as one of the most popular and successful Blackhawks players of all time. The Blackhawks continued to struggle, and finished last in the Central Division, 12 points out of the playoffs. They finished with the fourth-worst record in the NHL, and in the draft lottery, won the opportunity to select first overall in

15300-403: The host city for the 2005 Canada Summer Games . Regina also held the 2014 North American Indigenous Games . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Regina had a population of 226,404 living in 92,129 of its 99,134 total private dwellings, a change of 5.3% from its 2016 population of 215,106 . With a land area of 178.81 km (69.04 sq mi), it had

15450-435: The individual games were contested closely. Game 1 saw the Blackhawks squander leads of 3–0 and 4–1, and would eventually be beaten 5–4 after a Lemieux power-play goal with nine seconds remaining in regulation. The Blackhawks' most lackluster match was game two, losing 3–1. A frustrating loss of 1–0 followed in game three, and a natural hat trick from Dirk Graham and stellar play from Dominik Hasek (who showed indications of

15600-424: The last time before 1997–98 . In 1967 , the Black Hawks made a trade with the Boston Bruins that turned out to be one of the most one-sided in the history of the sport. Chicago sent young forwards Phil Esposito , Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield to Boston in exchange for Pit Martin , Jack Norris and Gilles Marotte . While Martin would star for the Hawks for many seasons, Esposito, Hodge and Stanfield would lead

15750-404: The late 1980s, Chicago still made the playoffs on an annual basis but made early-round exits each time. In 1988–89 , after three-straight first-round defeats and despite a fourth-place finish in their division in the regular season, Chicago made it to the conference finals in the rookie seasons of both goaltender Ed Belfour and center Jeremy Roenick . However, they would once again fail to make

15900-538: The league final, losing to the Melfort Mustangs . The Hounds have been noted for producing a large number of NHL alumni over many decades, such as Brind'Amour, Joseph, Wendel Clark , Vincent Lecavalier , and Morgan Rielly . More than one hundred former Hounds have been drafted to the NHL. During the 1985–86 NHL season , the Toronto Maple Leafs iced three former Hounds on one line, with the forward grouping of Clark, Gary Leeman , and Russ Courtnall being christened

16050-508: The longest such streak in North American professional sport history. Chicago would also miss the playoffs for a second consecutive season in 1999 , and missed the playoffs again in 2000 and 2001 . The new millennium started with disappointment for the Blackhawks. Éric Daze , Alexei Zhamnov and Tony Amonte emerged as some of the team's leading stars by this time. However, aside from a quick first-round exit in 2002 (where they lost to

16200-637: The marketing slogan, "We Play Hockey the Old-Fashioned Way: We Actually Win." Following the lockout of the 2004–05 season , new general manager Dale Tallon set about restructuring the team in the hopes of making a playoff run. Tallon made several moves in the summer of 2005, most notably the signing of the Tampa Bay Lightning 's Stanley Cup -winning goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin and All-Star defenseman Adrian Aucoin . However, injuries plagued Khabibulin and Aucoin among others, and

16350-503: The north of Regina. Regina Beach — situated on Last Mountain Lake (known locally as Long Lake) and a 30-minute drive from Regina – has been a summer favourite of Reginans from its first establishment and since the 1970s has also become a commuter satellite; Rouleau (also known as the town of Dog River in the CTV television sitcom Corner Gas ) is 45 km (28 mi) southwest of Regina and in

16500-505: The north of the central business district is the old warehouse district , increasingly the focus of shopping, nightclubs and residential development; as in other western cities of North America, the periphery contains shopping malls and big box stores . In 1912, the Regina Cyclone destroyed much of the town; in the 1930s, the Regina Riot brought further attention and, in the midst of the 1930s drought and Great Depression , which hit

16650-557: The over 125,000 population category). The annual Kiwanis Music Festival affords rising musical talents the opportunity to achieve nationwide recognition. The city's summer agricultural exhibition was originally established in 1884 as the Assiniboia Agricultural Association, then from the mid-1960s and up until 2009 as Buffalo Days then from that time until today, the Queen City Ex. This was remedied in 1970 with

16800-459: The owner of the Blackhawks. The younger Norris took an active interest in the team, which won another Stanley Cup title under his ownership in 1961 . After James D. Norris died in 1966, the Wirtz family became owners of the franchise. In 2007, the team came under the control of Rocky Wirtz , who is credited with turning around the organization, which had lost fan interest and competitiveness; under Wirtz,

16950-574: The ownership of the Norris family, who acted as their landlord as owners of the Chicago Stadium, and also owned stakes in several of the NHL teams. At first, the Norris ownership was as part of a syndicate fronted by longtime executive Bill Tobin , and the team languished in favor of the Norris-owned Detroit Red Wings. After the senior James E. Norris died in 1952, the Norris assets were spread among family members, and James D. Norris became

17100-532: The pair became two of the WHA's great stars. However, the Black Hawks repeated their appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals that year, again losing to Montreal. Stapleton also left for the WHA after that year, depleting the team further. While the team led or was second in the West Division for four straight seasons, for the rest of the 1970s, the Black Hawks made the playoffs each year—winning seven division championships in

17250-691: The players still being under-18s. Coached by Barry MacKenzie and boasting future National Hockey League (NHL) stars Rod Brind'Amour and Curtis Joseph , the team won 53 out of 60 games and defeated the Yorkton Terriers for the SJHL title. The team then swept the Winnipeg South Blues for the right to contest the Western Canadian Abbott Cup title, in which they faced the Calgary Canucks . Despite falling behind three games to one,

17400-463: The playoffs by three points. The 2007–08 season marked the first time in six years that the team finished above .500. Prior to the 2008–09 season opener, the Blackhawks named 20-year-old Toews as the new captain, succeeding Adrian Aucoin (who was traded to the Calgary Flames, after the 2006–07 season) and making him the third-youngest captain at the time of appointment. In addition to a new captain,

17550-519: The playoffs. They were eliminated by eventual Western Conference finalist Toronto, but broke their playoff losing streak at 10 games with a game three win. It was not enough, however, and the Blackhawks fell in six games. The 1993–94 season was also the Blackhawks' last at the Chicago Stadium, as the team moved into the newly built United Center across the street for the lockout -shortened 1994–95 season . Bernie Nicholls and Joe Murphy both scored 20 goals over 48 games, and Chicago once again made it to

17700-604: The position of senior adviser. Stan Bowman , son of Scotty Bowman, was promoted to general manager. The Blackhawks continued to sell-out games, with the best average attendance of 21,356 over the Montreal Canadiens' 21,273 in the NHL, and had a total of 854,267, excluding the playoffs. The Blackhawks reached the one million mark in Game 3 of the conference finals against the San Jose Sharks. The Blackhawks re-signed Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews to contract extensions worth $ 31.5 million over five years, and Duncan Keith to

17850-401: The position, McDonough was an instrumental figure in the Blackhawks' current marketing success. Wirtz was also able to bring back former Blackhawks greats Tony Esposito, Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull as the franchise's "hockey ambassadors". In addition to the changes in the team's policies and front office, the younger Wirtz also made a concerted effort to rebuild the team. The Blackhawks roster

18000-483: The rebellion's leader, Louis Riel , was tried and hanged in Regina – giving the infant community increased and, at the time, not unwelcome national attention in connection with a figure who was generally at the time considered an unalloyed villain in anglophone Canada. The episode, including Riel's imprisonment, trial and execution, brought the new Regina Leader (later the Leader-Post ) to national prominence. Regina

18150-602: The series in six games. They then bested the Wings to win their third Stanley Cup championship. The Hawks made the Cup Finals twice more in the 1960s, losing to the Leafs in 1962 and the Canadiens in 1965 . They remained a force to be reckoned with throughout the decade, with Hull enjoying four 50-goal seasons, Mikita winning back-to-back scoring titles and MVP accolades, Pilote winning three consecutive Norris Trophies , and Hall being named

18300-485: The singing of " The Star-Spangled Banner ". Prior to the 1986–87 season , while going through the team's records, someone discovered the team's original NHL contract and found that the team's name was printed as a compound word ("Blackhawks") as opposed to two separate words ("Black Hawks"), which was the way most sources had been printing it for 60 years and as the team had always officially listed it. The name officially became "Chicago Blackhawks" from that point on. In

18450-410: The south of the central business district with a dam a block and a half west of the later elaborate 260 m (850 ft) long Albert Street Bridge across the new lake. Regina's importance was further secured when the new province of Saskatchewan designated the city its capital in 1906. Wascana Centre , created around the focal point of Wascana Lake, remains one of Regina's attractions and contains

18600-646: The spelling found in the original franchise documents. The Black Hawks began play in the 1926–27 season , along with its fellow expansion franchises, the Detroit Cougars (now the Detroit Red Wings) and New York Rangers . The team had to face immediate competition in Chicago from Eddie Livingstone 's rival, the Chicago Cardinals , who played in the same building. McLaughlin took a very active role in running

18750-461: The summer months used to "bustle with film crews." Regina has a substantial cultural life in music, theatre and dance, supported by the fine arts constituency at the University of Regina, which has faculties of music, theatre and arts. At various times this has attracted notable artistic talent: the Regina Five were artists at Regina College (the university's predecessor) who gained national fame in

18900-633: The summer, which were substantially supported by the Masons and Shriners , has become the fair parade as such service clubs have lost vitality; the Regina Exhibition's travelling midway divides its time among other western Canadian and US cities. A Santa Claus parade is now mounted during the lead-up to Christmas. The Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League play their home games at Mosaic Stadium in Regina. Formed in 1910 as

19050-467: The team despite having no background in the sport. He hired Bill Tobin , a former goaltender who had played in the Western League, as his assistant, but directed the team himself. He was also very interested in promoting American players, then very rare in professional hockey. Several of them, including Doc Romnes , Taffy Abel , Alex Levinsky , Mike Karakas , and Cully Dahlstrom , become staples with

19200-588: The team operated only as a AAA minor hockey team for more than a decade. In 1980, the team won the national championship, the Air Canada Cup , defeating the Ste. Foy Governors in the final by a score of 5–1. The team returned to the final in 1984, and won the tournament for a second time in 1986, defeating the Toronto Red Wings by a score of 8–5. In 1987, the Hounds returned to the final for a fourth time. Despite losing

19350-430: The team signed goaltender Cristobal Huet to a four-year, US$ 22.5 million contract, and later signed defenseman Brian Campbell to an eight-year, $ 56.8 million contract. They also added former coaches Joel Quenneville and Scotty Bowman to their organization. On February 13, 2008, the Blackhawks announced they would hold their first fan convention. On July 16, 2008, the team announced that they would host

19500-490: The team won both games. It was too late for Toronto, as the Hawks won their second championship. As of 2019 , the 1938 Black Hawks possess the poorest regular season record of any Stanley Cup champion. The Black Hawks next returned to the Finals in 1944 behind Doug Bentley 's 38 goals, with Bentley's linemate Clint Smith leading the team in assists. After upsetting the Red Wings in the semifinals, they were promptly dispatched by

19650-570: The team's 49-year championship drought . The Blackhawks immediately faced salary cap constraints prior to the 2010–11 season . The team was forced to trade several players who played an integral role to their 2009–10 Stanley Cup victory, including Dustin Byfuglien , Andrew Ladd, Kris Versteeg, Brent Sopel , Ben Eager and Colin Fraser . The team was also unable to agree to terms with starting goaltender Antti Niemi , who left as restricted free agent to

19800-545: The team, and under McLaughlin, the Black Hawks were the first NHL team with an all-American-born lineup. The Black Hawks played their first game on November 17, 1926, against the Toronto St. Patricks at the Chicago Coliseum . They won their first game 4–1, in front of a crowd of over 7,000. The Hawks' first season was a moderate success, as they finished the season in third place with a record of 19–22–3. However, they lost

19950-406: The third-longest career for a single team in league history. By 1982 , the Black Hawks squeaked into the playoffs as the fourth seed in the Norris Division (at the time the top four teams in each division automatically made the playoffs), and were one of the NHL's Cinderella teams that year. Led by second-year Denis Savard 's 32 goals and 119 points and Doug Wilson 's 39 goals, the Hawks stunned

20100-530: The total city population), of which 9,200 were First Nations, 5,990 Métis, and 495 other Aboriginal." According to the 2021 census , religious groups in Regina included: Chicago Blackhawks This is an accepted version of this page The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks ) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago . The Blackhawks compete in

20250-661: The total population of Regina. Of the total immigrant population, the top countries of origin were Philippines (9,840 persons or 21.8%), India (7,385 persons or 16.3%), China (2,905 persons or 6.4%), Pakistan (2,640 persons or 5.8%), Nigeria (2,235 persons or 4.9%), Vietnam (1,410 persons or 3.1%), United Kingdom (1,380 persons or 3.1%), Bangladesh (1,240 persons or 2.7%), United States of America (1,155 persons or 2.6%), and Ukraine (885 persons or 2.0%). In absolute numbers of Aboriginal population, Regina ranked seventh among CMAs in Canada with an "Aboriginal-identity population of 15,685 (8.3% of

20400-580: The town's authentic development soon began as a collection of wooden shanties and tent shacks clustered around the site designated by the CPR for its future station, some 3.2 km (2 mi) to the east of where Dewdney had reserved substantial landholdings for himself and where he sited the Territorial (now the Saskatchewan) Government House . Regina attained national prominence in 1885 during

20550-572: The venues for choral concerts and organ recitals. The Regina Public Library is a citywide library system with nine branches. Its facilities include the RPL Film theatre which plays non-mainstream cinema, the Dunlop Art Gallery, special literacy services and a prairie history collection. The MacKenzie Art Gallery in Wascana Centre and the Dunlop Art Gallery have permanent collections and sponsor travelling exhibitions. The Saskatchewan Archives and

20700-518: Was previously the seat of government of the North-West Territories , of which the current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta originally formed part, and of the District of Assiniboia . The site was previously called Wascana (from Cree : ᐅᐢᑲᓇ , romanized:  Oskana "Buffalo Bones"), but was renamed to Regina (Latin for "Queen") in 1882 in honour of Queen Victoria . The name

20850-478: Was anticipated to be a metropole for the Canadian plains. These locations had ample access to water and resided on treed rolling parklands. "Pile-of-Bones", as the site for Regina was then called (or, in Cree, ᐅᐢᑲᓇ ᑳᐊᓵᐢᑌᑭ Oskana kâ-asastêki ), was by contrast located in arid and featureless grassland. Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney had acquired land adjacent to the route of the future CPR line at Pile-of-Bones, which

21000-490: Was bolstered by the addition of Patrick Kane, the first overall selection in the 2007 NHL entry draft , who led all rookies in points. Kane and Jonathan Toews were finalists for the Calder Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL's best rookie. Kane ultimately beat his teammate for the award. Kane finished the 2007–08 season with 21 goals and 51 assists in 82 games. The Blackhawks finished with a record of 40–34–8, missing

21150-422: Was built between 1908 and 1912. The " Regina Cyclone " was a tornado that devastated the city on 30 June 1912 and remains the deadliest tornado in Canadian history, with a total of 28 fatalities, the population of the city having been 30,213 in 1911. Green funnel clouds formed and touched down south of the city, tearing a swath through the residential area between Wascana Lake and Victoria Avenue, continuing through

21300-419: Was created as a "stock watering hole" — for the CPR 's rolling stock , that is – in 1883 when a dam and bridge were constructed 1½ blocks to the west of the present Albert Street Bridge . A new dam and bridge were built in 1908, and Wascana Lake was used as a domestic water source, to cool the city's power plant and, in due course, for the new provincial legislative building. By the 1920s, with Boggy Creek as

21450-462: Was derisively known as "Dollar Bill". For example, Wirtz did not allow home games to be televised in the Chicago area, claiming it was unfair to the team's season ticket holders. He also raised ticket prices to an average of $ 50, making them among the most expensive in the NHL. The Chicago Wolves , an American Hockey League (AHL) team based in Rosemont, Illinois , mocked the Blackhawks' struggle by using

21600-468: Was distinguished only by collections of bison bones near a small spring run-off creek, some few kilometres downstream from its origin in the midst of what are now wheat fields. There was an "obvious conflict of interest" in Dewdney's choosing the site of Pile-of-Bones as the territorial seat of government and it was a national scandal at the time. But until 1897, when responsible government was accomplished in

21750-428: Was established as the territorial seat of government in 1882 when Edgar Dewdney , the lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories , insisted on the site over the better developed Battleford , Troy and Fort Qu'Appelle (the latter some 48 km (30 mi) to the east, one on rolling plains and the other in the Qu'Appelle Valley between two lakes). These communities were considered better locations for what

21900-542: Was incorporated as a city on 19 June 1903, with the MLA who introduced the charter bill, James Hawkes , declaring, "Regina has the brightest future before it of any place in the North West Territories". Several years later the city was proclaimed the capital of the 1905 province of Saskatchewan on 23 May 1906, by the first provincial government, led by Premier Walter Scott ; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building

22050-739: Was one of the biggest buyers in the trade market, acquiring a future franchise player in left-winger Martin Havlat , as well as center Bryan Smolinski from the Ottawa Senators in a three-way trade that also involved the San Jose Sharks . The Hawks dealt forward Mark Bell to the Sharks, Michal Barinka and a 2008 second-round draft pick to the Senators, while Ottawa also received defenseman Tom Preissing and center Josh Hennessy from San Jose. Havlat gave

22200-450: Was poised to fare even better in the playoffs, winning the Presidents' Trophy for best regular season record, but the Minnesota North Stars stunned them in six games in the first round en route to an improbable Stanley Cup Finals appearance. In 1991–92 , the Blackhawks – with Roenick scoring 53 goals, Steve Larmer scoring 29 goals, Chris Chelios (acquired from Montreal two years earlier) on defense, and Belfour in goal – finally reached

22350-419: Was proposed by Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise , who was the wife of the Governor General of Canada , the Marquess of Lorne . Unlike other planned cities in the Canadian West , on its treeless flat plain Regina has few topographical features other than the small spring run-off, Wascana Creek . Early planners took advantage of such opportunity by damming the creek to create a decorative lake to

22500-410: Was −50.0 °C (−58 °F) on 1 January 1885, while the highest recorded temperature was 43.9 °C (111 °F) on 5 July 1937. Some neighbourhoods of note include: From its first founding, particularly once motorcars were common, Reginans have retired to the nearby Qu'Appelle Valley on weekends, for summer and winter holidays and indeed as a place to live permanently and commute from. Since

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