Red Deer Rebels

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team = Red Deer Rebels

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city = Red Deer, Alberta
league = Western Hockey League
conference = Eastern
division = Central
founded = 1992–93
arena = ENMAX Centrium
colours = red, black, white and silver
coach = Jesse Wallin
GM = Brian SutterThe Red Deer Rebels are a Western Hockey League junior ice hockey team based in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. They play their home games at the ENMAX Centrium. The Rebels had the first overall pick in the 2008 WHL Bantam Draft, choosing Burnaby, British Columbia native Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

The Rebels were a very successful team in the early 2000s winning three consecutive division and conference titles between 2000–01 and 2002–03. This period began with a WHL and Memorial Cup championship in 2001 when Doug Lynch scored the overtime winner against the Val-d'Or Foreurs. The Rebels were unable to duplicate this feat, however, falling in the league championship series the next two seasons.

Head coach, General Manager, President, and owner Brent Sutter was also highly successful while serving as Team Canada's coach at both the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship and 2006 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship. According to TSN Sutter has stepped down as the Rebels Head Coach and GM. His older brother, Brian has taken over the reins of the team for the upcoming season. Jesse Wallin was named as the new head coach on March 24, 2008.

Championships

:Division titles won: 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03:Regular season titles won: 2000–01, 2001–02:League Championships won: 2001:Memorial Cup Titles: 2001

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"

Roster

Forwards

9 Tomas Polak10 Cody Gross11 Brett Miller12 Brandon Sutter13 Landon Ferraro14 Daulton Siwak15 Carter Smith16 Brennen Wray17 Tyler Penny21 Cass Mappin22 Cody Esposito

Defense

5 Tommi Kivisto2 Cullen Morin3 Mike Scarborough4 Luke Egener6 Colin Archer7 Alex Petrovic25 Joel Kot26 Justin Weller

Goaltenders

31 James Reimer33 Morgan Clark

NHL alumni

*Colby Armstrong *Arron Asham *Clayton Beddoes *Ryan Bonni *Mike Brown *Phil Crowe *Matt Ellison *Martin Erat *Colin Fraser

*Michael Garnett *Dallas Gaume *Carsen Germyn *Boyd Gordon *Jay Henderson *Matt Keith *Peter LeBoutillier *Brad Leeb *Brian Loney

*Ross Lupaschuk *Doug Lynch *Justin Mapletoft *Masi Marjamaki *Mike McBain *Derek Meech *Stephen Peat *Dion Phaneuf *Craig Reichert

*Terry Ryan *Robert Schnabel *Sean Selmser *Darren Van Impe *Jim Vandermeer *Jesse Wallin *Kyle Wanvig *Cam Ward *Lance Ward

*Jeff Woywitka *Mikhail Yakubov *B.J. Young

ee also

* List of ice hockey teams in Alberta

External links

* [http://www.reddeerrebels.com/ Official Web Site]
* [http://whlfans.ca/forumdisplay.php?f=40/ Whlfans Rebels forum]