West Kelowna Warriors The West Kelowna Warriors are a Junior " A " ice hockey team from West Kelowna , British Columbia , Canada . They are a part of the British Columbia Hockey League ( BCHL ) and play in the Interior Conference . History . The West Kelowna Warriors are a relocated franchise , moving to West Kelowna in 2006 from Langley , British Columbia . Langley was originally granted a British Columbia Junior Hockey League ( BCJHL ) franchise in 1973 called the Langley Lords . The team played as the Lords through the 1975 - 76 season . In those three years they had very decent regular seasons , making it to the playoffs each year , including a loss in the league finals in their first season . In 1976 the Lords changed their name to the Langley Thunder . Their regular season performance diminished each year , and they missed the playoffs for the first time in the franchise ' s history in the 1978 - 79 season . Shortly after the completion of the 1978 - 79 season , the franchise ceased operations . An unrelated BCJHL franchise , the Chilliwack Colts , relocated to become the Langley Eagles from 1981 - 82 through the 1986 - 87 seasons , before moving back to Chilliwack , British Columbia . In 1990 the BCJHL was renamed the BCHL , and in 1994 Langley returned to the BCHL with a new franchise , adopting the name Thunder from the defunct franchise of the 1970s . The new franchise competed as the Thunder for five seasons , reaching the BCHL championship finals in 1996 , which they lost to the eventual Junior A national Royal Bank Cup champion Vernon Vipers , 4 – 1 . Before the start of the 2006 - 07 season the franchise moved from Langley to the unincorporated area on the " westside " of Kelowna , British Columbia , and renamed themselves the Westside Warriors . The Westside Warriors found immediate success , reaching the BCHL playoffs in the 2006 - 07 season , followed in 2007 - 08 with a third place BCHL finish in the regular season and making it to the BCHL semi - finals in the playoffs . In late 2007 the unincorporated area the Westside Warriors called home became the incorporated Westside District Municipality , and in 2008 changed its name to West Kelowna . The franchise kept the place name Westside , rather than West Kelowna , through the 2011 - 12 season . In the summer of 2012 , the Westside Warriors announced they would be changing their name to the West Kelowna Warriors , recognizing the proper name of the municipality they play in . The Warriors won the BCHL ' s Fred Page Cup Playoffs in 2016 and followed it up with winning the 2016 Western Canada Cup to qualify for the 2016 Royal Bank Cup . Season - by - season record . " Note : GP = Games Played , W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , OTL = Overtime Losses , GF = Goals for , GA = Goals against " BCJHL Langley Lords / Thunder . 1979 - BCJHL Langley Thunder ceases operations . ( unrelated franchise moves to Langley from Chilliwack in 1981 , returns to Chilliwack in 1987 ) 1994 - New BCHL franchise created in Langley , adopts name from 1979 Langley Thunder . 2006 - Langley franchise moves west of Kelowna , becomes Westside Warriors . BCHL Langley Thunder / Hornets , Westside / West Kelowna Warriors . 2012 - Westside area now the municipality of West Kelowna , franchise renamed West Kelowna Warriors . External links . < br clear = right >