Brandon Wheat Kings | |
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City | Brandon, Manitoba, Canada |
League | Western Hockey League |
Conference | Eastern |
Division | East |
Founded | 1936 |
Home arena | Westoba Place |
Colours | Gold, black, white |
General manager | Marty Murray[1] |
Head coach | Marty Murray |
Website | chl.ca/whl-wheatkings |
Franchise history | |
1936–1938 | Brandon Wheat Kings (MJHL) |
1938–1940 | Brandon Elks (MJHL) |
1940–1967 | Brandon Wheat Kings (MJHL) |
1967–present | Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) |
Championships | |
Regular season titles | 5 (1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1995–96, 2014–15) |
Playoff championships | Ed Chynoweth Cup 3 (1979, 1996, 2016) Conference Championships 5 (1995–96, 1997–98, 2004–05, 2014–15, 2015–16) |
Current uniform | |
The Brandon Wheat Kings are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Brandon, Manitoba. Founded in 1936, the team was for three decades a successful junior team playing principally in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. The Wheat Kings joined the Western Hockey League ahead of the 1967–68 season, and today play in the East Division of the Eastern Conference, hosting games at Keystone Centre. The team owns the best regular season record in WHL history from the 1978–79 season, when the Wheat Kings posted 58 wins and 125 points. That season, they won their first of three league championships.