Calgary Oval X-Treme

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team = Calgary Oval Xtreme

city = Calgary, Alberta
league = Western Women's Hockey League
founded = 1995
arena = Olympic Oval
colours = Blue and White
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The Calgary Oval X-Treme are an ice hockey team in the Western Women's Hockey League. They are based out of Calgary, Alberta and play at the Olympic Oval. The Oval X-Treme were a member of the National Women's Hockey League for two seasons before breaking away to help form the WWHL in 2004. In 2006, the two leagues were reunited under the NWHL banner. However, this was short lived as the NWHL and WWHL could not reach an agreement upon a playoff schedule. As a result, the merger was not consummated. With the collapse of the NWHL in the summer of 2007, the Western Women's Hockey League was once again a completely independent league.

:Division titles won: 2003, 04, 07:Regular season titles won: 2005, 06, 07:League championships won: 2003, 04, 05, 06, 07:Esso Canadian national championships won: 1998, 2001, 03, 07

History

The Oval X-Treme were founded in 1995 as an amateur team for women's hockey players in Calgary, quickly developing a heated rivalry with their northern counterparts, the Edmonton Chimos. In 2002, the Oval X-Treme were approached, along with the Chimos, to join the semi-professional National Women's Hockey League. The two teams joined the Vancouver Griffins to form the West division of the NWHL. After the 03-04 season, where the Oval X-Treme and Chimos faced only each other due to prohibitive costs to fly out east, the two franchises left the NWHL to form the five team Western Women's Hockey League.

Partially as a result of the Canadian national team being based in Calgary, the Oval X-Treme features many of Canada's top women's hockey players, including Hayley Wickenheiser, Danielle Goyette and Cassie Campbell. As a result, the Oval X-Treme have become the undisputed powerhouse of women's hockey in western Canada, winning five consecutive league championships, and compiling a regular season mark of 95-3-2-1 in their last five seasons.

eason-by-season record

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

ee also

*List of ice hockey teams in Alberta
*Ice hockey in Calgary

References

* [http://nwhl.onlineleagues.com/leagues/icehockey/standings.php?LGID=20 NWHL archives]
* [http://www.westernwomenshockeyleague.com/leagues/frameset.cfm?leagueID=3639&clientID=1754&link=WWHL WWHL official site]
* [http://www.calgaryovalxtreme.com/leagues/front_pageXTREME.cfm?clientid=2183&leagueid=5168 Oval X-treme official site]