Regina Exhibition Stadium , also known as Regina Stadium and Queen City Gardens , was an indoor arena at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan .
24-730: Constructed in 1919, the venue was home arena of the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League before the construction of the Agridome in 1977. The venue was notable for its use in agricultural exhibitions, sporting events, and concerts. Jack Hamilton served as president of the Regina Rink Company which raised funds to install an artificial ice maker in the Regina Stadium. He operated the rink for 11 years from 1938 to 1949, when it
48-598: A higher level of competition and more formal organization. Its teams were eligible for the Memorial Cup as the national junior champion of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association , and were runners-up in five seasons as the Abbott Cup junior champion of Western Canada. The Western Canada Junior Hockey League (WCJHL) formed in 1948 after junior ice hockey teams from Alberta and Saskatchewan wanted to form
72-704: A league with a higher level of competition with more formal organization by a dedicated league governor rather than a provincial governing body. All four teams from the Southern Alberta Junior Hockey League combined with two teams from the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League to become a six-team league. The remaining junior teams in Saskatchewan reorganized as the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League for
96-507: A national champion, as the Pats won their first President's Cup WCHL championship and fourth Memorial Cup in 1974. Wilson sold his interest in the team in 1980, the same year the team won its second President's Cup. The team remained competitive in the early 1980s, losing the WHL final in 1982 and 1984. In 1977, the team moved from Exhibition Stadium to the adjacent and brand-new Agridome, since renamed
120-409: A new $ 37 million, 150,000 square-foot convention space that would link all of Evraz Place's indoor facilities. 50°27′10.0″N 104°38′25.0″W / 50.452778°N 104.640278°W / 50.452778; -104.640278 This article about a Canadian ice hockey arena is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a building or structure in Saskatchewan
144-549: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Regina Pats The Regina Pats are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Regina, Saskatchewan . Founded in 1917, the Pats are the world's oldest continuously operating major junior hockey franchise in its original location and using its original name. The team was originally named the Regina Patricia Hockey Club , after Princess Patricia of Connaught ,
168-426: Is the current general manager and Brad Herauf is the head coach, following the retirement of John Paddock in 2023. Bob Clarke Trophy (WHL top scorer) Four Broncos Memorial Trophy (WHL player of the year) Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy (WHL top defenceman) Del Wilson Trophy (WHL top goaltender) Jim Piggott Memorial Trophy (WHL rookie of the year) Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy (WHL coach of
192-697: The West Toronto Nationals 2–0 in 1930. The Pats played in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from 1946 to 1948, the Western Canada Junior Hockey League from 1948 to 1956, and then the revived Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League from 1956 to 1966. During the 1960s, the club was an affiliate farm team for the Montreal Canadiens . Del Wilson, a scout for the Canadiens, became the Pats general manager in 1955; in 1966, Wilson and
216-670: The 1948–49 season. Earlier in 1948, the stronger junior teams based in Saskatchewan and Manitoba proposed an inter-provincial league. Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association president Jimmy Dunn was opposed to the idea since he felt it would have a negative effect on junior hockey in Winnipeg. The WCJHL operated under the joint jurisdiction of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association and the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association , and participated in
240-646: The Brandt Centre. The team's last game at Exhibition was a 4–3 overtime win over the Swift Current Broncos in front of 2,200 fans; they opened the new arena with a 8–4 victory over the Saskatoon Blades before a crowd of 4,200. In 2014, John Paddock joined the team as its coach and manager. The 2016–17 season , the Pats' 99th, saw the team post its first ever 50-win season and capture its second Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy as regular season champions;
264-627: The Memorial Cup. Because of this, the Pats returned to a once-more revived Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in 1968. In 1970, CAHA reorganized junior hockey in Canada and finally recognized the WCHL as a legitimate major junior league, and the Pats returned to the league, which was renamed the Western Hockey League in 1978, for good. Wilson, who purchased the Pats in 1970, helped turn the team back into
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#1733093812169288-508: The Pats became central in establishing a new major junior league for western Canada, the Western Canada Hockey League . Although the impetus for the new league was creating more even footing for western teams to compete with teams in eastern Canada for the Memorial Cup, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) regarded the new league as an "outlaw league" and, ironically for WCHL members, banned its teams from competing for
312-479: The advent of inter-provincial junior championships. The Pats have appeared in more Memorial Cup tournaments than any other team, winning four times and finishing as the runner-up ten times. They have hosted the Memorial Cup tournament, solely or jointly, seven times: 1947 , 1955 , 1957 , 1969 , 1980 , 2001 , and 2018 . Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points Alan Millar
336-571: The championship game. Although the 2018 outdoor game was ultimately moved indoors due largely to weather and ice concerns, the Pats did host the Calgary Hitmen at Mosaic as part of the 2019 Heritage Classic festivities; the game, dubbed the "Prairie Classic", saw Calgary win 5–4 in overtime. The Pats have been western Canadian junior hockey champions fourteen times, including twelve Abbott Cup and two President's Cup victories. The Pats were also Saskatchewan junior hockey champions in 1918 before
360-683: The event. At the next CAHA meeting in January 1955, the request for three additional players for the Abbott Cup representative was approved. The WCJHL folded in 1958 and three of the remaining four teams returned to their respective provincial junior leagues. The exception was the Edmonton Oil Kings, which joined the Central Alberta Hockey League , a senior ice hockey league. List of league governors: List of teams that played in
384-680: The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of the Governor General, the Duke of Connaught . The team name also associates Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry –Pats sweaters bear the regimental badge and "PPCLI" flash as a shoulder patch. Today, the team plays in the East Division of the Western Hockey League 's Eastern Conference. The Pats host games at the Brandt Centre and games are broadcast on 620 CKRM radio. The Pats are one of
408-474: The imbalance in Memorial Cup competition in a meeting with CAHA president W. B. George in August 1954. The teams sought permission for the champions of any western leagues to add three players from their own league starting in the inter-provincial playoffs to determine the western representative for the Memorial Cup, and contended that the imbalance in competition caused lack of spectator interest and less prestige for
432-553: The most successful junior hockey franchises. They have made a record sixteen appearances at the Memorial Cup tournament, and a record fourteen appearances in the tournament final. The teams' four Memorial Cup championships are the third most in history. The team was founded in 1917 and named after the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, a Western Canadian regiment founded during the First World War . The Memorial Cup
456-733: The playoffs for the Memorial Cup as organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA). Teams from the WCJHL won the Abbott Cup as the junior champions of Western Canada in five seasons, which included the Regina Pats in 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956, and the Edmonton Oil Kings in 1954. In each of these seasons, the WCJHL champion lost to the Eastern Canada champion at the head-to-head Memorial Cup national junior championship. The WCJHL and other junior teams in Western Canada addressed
480-461: The team would advance to its first championship final since 1984, which it lost to the Seattle Thunderbirds . The 2017–18 season marked the 100th anniversary for the Pats, and the team held celebrations throughout the year. In addition to announcing an outdoor game at Mosaic Stadium against the rival Moose Jaw Warriors , the Pats hosted the 2018 Memorial Cup —they would go on to lose in
504-516: The year) Doc Seaman Trophy (WHL scholastic player of the year) Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy (Memorial Cup MVP) Ed Chynoweth Trophy (Memorial Cup top scorer) Western Canada Junior Hockey League (1948%E2%80%931956) The Western Canada Junior Hockey League was a junior ice hockey based in Alberta and Saskatchewan from 1948 until 1956. It was formed by teams which sought
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#1733093812169528-520: Was founded as a tribute to Canadian war veterans, and the Pats earned the right to contest the first ever Memorial Cup championship in 1919, which they lost to the University of Toronto Schools. The team's first home was at Regina Arena, which opened in 1910 and could seat approximately 2,000. In 1920, the team moved to the Regina Stadium , which they would call home until 1977. In 1923, the team's name
552-538: Was known as the Queen City Gardens. In 2015, the arena was used as a filming location for Chokeslam , a professional wrestling -themed romantic comedy film. By 2017, the arena had been described as "deteriorating", and contrasting to other new developments at the grounds such as Mosaic Stadium . In 2017, Regina Exhibition Stadium was demolished in order to construct the International Trade Centre,
576-516: Was shortened to the Pats. In 1925, the team secured its first Memorial Cup title with a victory over Toronto Aura Lee . For the 1927–28 season, the Pats merged with the Regina Falcons and called themselves the Regina Monarchs. The team went on to win the Memorial Cup that year before reverting to the Pats nickname in 1928–29. The Pats would win one more Memorial Cup title in this era, defeating
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