Olds Grizzlys

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Olds Grizzlys
Olds Grizzlys logo.jpg
City Olds, Alberta
League AJHL
DivisionSouth
Founded1974 (1974)
Home arenaOlds & District Sports Complex
ColoursBlack, gold, and white
   
Owner(s)Moe Jamal and Jay Beagle
General manager Moe Jamal
Head coach Tyson Soloski
Website oldsgrizzlys.ca
Franchise history
1974–1981 Taber Golden Suns
1981–presentOlds Grizzlys

The Olds Grizzlys are a junior A ice hockey club in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. [1] They play in Olds, Alberta, Canada with home games at the Olds & District Sports Complex. [2] [3]

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History

The Olds Grizzlys joined the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) after the Taber Golden Suns franchise relocated to Olds following the 1980–81 season. The Grizzlys were a dominant team in the AJHL in the early 1990s with three straight league championships and a Centennial Cup title as Junior A national champions, won on home ice, in 1994. [1]

On June 30, 2017, the league announced that the franchise had been transferred to new ownership called the "Friends of the Grizzlys." [4]

On April 3, 2025, the club announced Calgary business man Moe Jamal and former National Hockey League player Jay Beagle as its new owners. [5] [6]

As of 2025, Moe Jamal has been appointed as the General Manager and Tyson Soloski is the head coach. [6] [7]

Season-by-season records

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

  1. Awarded during the 1994 Centennial Cup.

Junior A National Championship

The National Junior A Championship, known as the Centennial Cup and formerly as the Royal Bank Cup or RBC Cup, is the postseason tournament for the Canadian national championship for Junior A hockey teams that are members of the Canadian Junior Hockey League since 1971. Since 1986, the tournament has consisted of the regional Junior A champions and a previously selected host team. Since 1990, the national championship has used a five-team tournament format when the regional qualifiers were designated as the ANAVET Cup (Western), Doyle Cup (Pacific), Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), and Fred Page Cup (Eastern). From 2013 to 2017, the qualifiers were the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), Fred Page Cup (Eastern), and the Western Canada Cup champions and runners-up (Western #1 and #2).

The tournament begins with round-robin play between the five teams followed by the top four teams playing a semifinal game, with the top seed facing the fourth seed and the second facing the third. The winners of the semifinals then face each other in final game for the national championship. In some years, the losers of the semifinal games face each other for a third place game.

YearRound-robinRecordStandingSemifinalChampionship game
1994
Host
W, 11–3 vs. Chateauguay Elites (Central)
W, 5–0 vs. Weyburn Red Wings (Western)
W, 5–2 vs. Kelowna Spartans (Pacific)
W, 10–1 vs. Antigonish Bulldogs (Eastern)
4–0
(W–L)
1st of 5W, 4–3 vs. Weyburn Red WingsOTW, 5–4 vs. Kelowna Spartans
Centennial Cup National Junior A Champions

NHL alumni

The following former Grizzlys have gone on to play in the National Hockey League (NHL):

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Home Page". www.oldsgrizzlys.ca. 2025-04-03. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  2. "Locations". www.oldsgrizzlys.ca. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  3. "Olds Grizzlys - Roster, News, Stats & more". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  4. "Grizzlys Ownership Change Approved by AJHL". AJHL. June 30, 2017. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022.
  5. jjohnston (2025-04-03). "New ownership spearheads a new era in #GrizzCountry!". www.oldsgrizzlys.ca. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  6. 1 2 Hartviksen, Galen (25 June 2025). "AJHL unveils 2025-2026 schedule, Grizzlys home opener September 20 vs Camrose". My Mountain View Now. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  7. "Staff". www.oldsgrizzlys.ca. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
Preceded by Centennial Cup Champions
1994
Succeeded by