Prince George Cougars

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team = Prince George Cougars

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city = Prince George, British Columbia
league = Western Hockey League
conference = Western
division = B.C.
founded = 1994–95
arena = CN Centre
colours = Burgundy, White & Black
coach = Drew Schonek
GM = Dallas Thompson
name1 = Victoria Cougars
dates1 = 1971–1994
name2 = Prince George Cougars
dates2 = 1994-PresentThe Prince George Cougars are a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. The team is based in Prince George, British Columbia, and plays its home games at the CN Centre. The Cougars were founded in 1971 as the Victoria Cougars, but later moved to Prince George in 1994.

History

The Prince George Cougars played the 1994–95 WHL season at the Prince George Coliseum along the Tier II Prince George Spruce Kings, until the construction of their own arena was complete. The Cougars logo for their first season in Prince George closely resembled that of the Victoria Courgars. For the 1995–96 WHL season, the Cougars moved into their new home, the "Prince George Multiplex", since renamed the CN Centre. A new logo was also unveiled the same season.

The Cougars most successful playoff run came during the 2006–07 WHL season. Prince George achieved their first sweep of an opposing team in a best of seven game series, and reached the conference finals for the first time.

eason-by-season record

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

NHL alumni

Nineteen alumni of the Prince George Cougars have played in the National Hockey League.

*Blair Betts *Alexandre Boikov *Derek Boogaard *Tyler Bouck *Eric Brewer

*Dustin Byfuglien *Zdeno Chara *Jonathan Filewich *Kyle Freadrich *Dan Hamhuis *Trent Hunter

*David Koci *Joel Kwiatkowski *Mike Leclerc *Chris Mason *Ronald Petrovicky

*Devin Setoguchi *Sheldon Souray *Mike Wall

Uniforms and logos

The Cougars colours are burgundy, white and black. Home jerseys have a white upper portion, with a burgundy lower portion, separated by a diagonal black stripe. Away jerseys have a black upper portion, with a burgundy lower portion, separated by a diagonal white stripe. Prince George's third jersey features a redesigned logo (inset), on a burgundy jersey, with black, grey and white trim on the lower portion. On August 20, 2008, the Cougars unvieled a new logo. It was closler to the 3rd logo than the 2nd. It was designed by Mike Doran of Splash Media.Aug 20 2008

ee also

*List of ice hockey teams in British Columbia

External links

* [http://www.pgcougars.com/ Prince George Cougars website]
* [http://www.whl.ca/ Western Hockey League website]