 the victoria salmon kings were a professional ice hockey team based in victoria, british columbia. they were members of the mountain division of the western conference of the echl, debuting in the 2004â05 echl season and folding after the 2010â11 echl season as the chilliwack bruins whl franchise relocated to victoria and they couldn't simultaneously operate. they played out of the save-on-foods memorial centre. == history == while the victoria region has had a long and distinguished hockey history - the victoria cougars won the stanley cup in 1925 - the region was the largest canadian region without either professional or major-junior hockey when the whl victoria cougars (a team with no connection to the aforementioned cougars) moved to prince george in 1994. this was a crippling blow to victoria hockey fans, whose highest-level remaining local team was the tier ii junior 'a' victoria salsa, who later became the victoria grizzlies. by this time, it had become evident that the 50-year-old victoria memorial arena, seating only 4,000 for hockey, would have to be replaced if victoria expected to be able to attract a new hockey club. after several years of discussion, the construction of a new arena was approved by victoria voters in a 2002 referendum, with one key condition being that its construction was dependent on victoria securing a whl team. [[image:victoriasalmonkingsold.png|thumb|150px|left|the original logo of the victoria salmon kings lasted for one season. it is rumoured that the logo needed to be changed as the los angeles kings took excepti
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