1964 - 65 Alberta Senior Playoffs League champion . Central Alberta Hockey League : Drumheller Miners From : The Calgary Herald Independent teams . Friday , November 13 , 1964 Seniors To Start Calgary ' s neophyte senior hockey team gets its first taste of action Sunday afternoon at the Corral , when it skates out against the University of Alberta - Calgary Dinosaurs . The seniors have been out for more than a month , but this will mark their first official skirmish . The Dinnies have already played a handful of games and will meet the Drumheller Miners of the CAHL tonight at 8 : 30 at the Foothills Arena . Sunday ' s action gets under way at 2 : 30 . Three more players - - Mick Gilday , Warren Hicks and Phil Latreille - - have offically signed senior contracts . Gilday is a local product who graduated from the junior Buffaloes in 1954 . The 31 - year old left winger played two seasons in the Okanagan Senior League with the Vernon Canadians , followed by eight seasons with the Olds Elks of the CAHL . Midway through last year he was traded to the Drumheller Miners . An accomplished scorer , Gilday captured the CAHL point scoring title in the 1962 - 63 season . He was one of the big reasons why the Elks captured the western Canada intermediate " A " hockey championship that year . Hicks , 27 , is also a graduate of the junior Buffs , although he also played junior hockey in Melville and Yorkton . He later played senior hockey in the Okanagan and Kootenays , and in recent seasons has been a Big Six standout with the Adderson Builders , and CCRA Canadians . The 160 pound left winger scored 30 goals with the Canadians in 1963 - 64 , and for three years was a runner - up for the BIg Six scoring title . Latreille arrives on the scene with some pretty fancy press clippings . The 26 - year old right winger performed with the Montreal Olympics when they went to the Allan Cup finals four years ago . In 1961 he had a four - game trail with the New York Rangers of the NHL and for two seasons was the most valuable player in the Eastern U . S . Collegiate League . From : The Calgary Herald Monday , December 7 , 1964 States McAuley Puck Rivalry Still Alive The Edmonton - Calgary hockey rivalry isn ' t dead , in fact it is very much alive . At least this is what Edmonton ' s Ken McAuley thinks . And if anyone should know , it would be the former goalie of Edmonton ' s senior teams and coach of the Oil Kings for eight years . McAuley , in Calgary for business reasons Saturday night , was an interested spectator at the Golden Bears - Calgary senior hockey game , and confirmed dates where Edmonton ' s senior Nuggets squad will play a home - and - home series with Calgary . Calgary will meet the Nuggets in an exhibition test at the Edmonton Gardens December 18 , and the two clubs will play a return game at the Corral New Year ' s afternoon . McAuley is the business manager of the Edmonton club and reports that two members of his executitive and well known former Flyer players in the amateur days - - Gordon Watt and Harvey " Pug " Young - - have done a remarkable job in raising money for the Edmonton club . McAuley will be meeting with officcials of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League shortly to make plans for Calgary and Edmonton to join the circuit next year . The Nuggets have been practising only about two weeks and need conditioning more than anything else , reports McAuley . " We have Hugh Currie as coach and some of the players working out are George McAvoy , Jack Nicholl from the Oil Kings , Don " Beaver " Poile , Frank Roggeveen , Ed Ehrenverth , John Utendale , and a former Oil King goalie by the name of Roy Turner . I ' m not letting out any more names in the event ( Bert - Charlie ) Olmstead and his boys may not want to play us , " said the former New York Ranger goalie . " But I ' ll tell you this . Anything Calgary can do , we can do better . We intend to bring in the Canadian National team for an exhibition game February 6 , " McAuley stated . So enthused are the Edmonton players that they practise between 10 and 12 at nights when ice time is available at the Edmonton Gardens . With fellows like McAuley , Watt and Young promoting hockey in the Alberta capital and Ron Butlin , Lloyd Turner and Frank McCool here in Calgary , then senior hockey in the two Alberta cities , plus the proposed four teams from Saskatchewan next winter , it might not be too long before the Corral draws around 5 , 000 again . Provincial Semi Final . " Best of 7 " Calgary Spurs beat Edmonton Nuggets 4 wins to 2 . Provincial Final . " Best of 7 " Drumheller Miners beat Calgary Spurs 4 wins to 2 . Drumheller Miners advanced to the 1964 - 65 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs See also . List of Alberta Senior Playoffs