page_title: Whitecourt
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Whitecourt / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: The Scott Safety Centre in Whitecourt, home of the Whitecourt Wolverines of the AJHL
context_page_description: Whitecourt is a town in central Alberta, Canada within Woodlands County. It is located approximately 177 km northwest of Edmonton and 279 km southeast of Grande Prairie at the junction of Highway 43 and Highway 32, and has an elevation of 690 m. The Whitecourt meteor impact crater is found on nearby Whitecourt Mountain.
  Whitecourt is also located at the confluence of four waterways – the Athabasca River, McLeod River, Sakwatamau River and Beaver Creek. A Canadian National rail line runs through the town.
  The Town has branded itself as the Snowmobile Capital of Alberta and its motto is Let's Go....
context_section_description: Travis Roche and Rocky Thompson are current and former professional hockey players that were raised in Whitecourt. Roche played 60 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between the Minnesota Wild and Phoenix Coyotes and now plays for SC Bern in Switzerland's National League A. He has represented Team Canada at the Spengler Cup on numerous occasions, winning gold at the 2012 tournament. Thompson played 25 games in the NHL between the Calgary Flames and Florida Panthers and was an assistant coach for the Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League.
  Normand Lacombe is the strength and conditioning coach for the Whitecourt Wolverines of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), and was the head coach of the predecessor Wolverines of the North West Junior Hockey League prior to the AJHL's arrival. Lacombe played 319 games in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers, winning the Stanley Cup with the Oilers in 1988.
caption: Scott Safety Centre, home of the Whitecourt Wolverines of the AJHL
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