Bismarck Bobcats The Bismarck Bobcats are a Junior A ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League ' s Central Division , and play out of Bismarck , North Dakota , in the V . F . W . Sports Center . Originally a part of the America West Hockey League , the Bobcats joined the NAHL in a merger of the two leagues in 2003 . In 2005 , the Bobcats hosted the Robertson Cup tournament . The Bobcats are the 2010 Robertson Cup Champions , winning the national championship with a 3 - 0 victory over the Fairbanks Ice Dogs on May 9 , 2010 . They are also the three - time defending NAHL Central Division champions . In addition to the Robertson Cup , the Bobcats also won back - to - back Borne Cup titles as champions of the AWHL in 2002 and 2003 . Their 2003 title was the last Borne Cup to be awarded prior to the NAHL - AWHL merger . The Bismarck Bobcats came to Bismarck in 1997 and played their first season at the Bismarck Civic Center . They moved to the V . F . W . Sports Center the following year and have called it home ever since . The V . F . W . Sports Center was remodeled in the summer of 2008 . The seating capacity 1 , 289 and with standing room is 1 , 450 . The Bobcats have had five head coaches in their tenure in Bismarck . Layne Sedevie is the current head coach , having been promoted from assistant coach following Byron Pool ' s decision to accept an associate head coach position with the Fargo Force of the USHL . Sedevie , a Bismarck native , was a goaltender at Bemidji State University and played professionally in the CHL before serving as assistant coach under Pool for the 2009 - 10 season . In his first season behind the bench he led the Bobcats to their third straight Central Division Playoff championship . Pool , who served as head coach 2007 - 2010 was named the NAHL " Coach of the Year " in 2009 . In addition to leading the team to its first - ever Robertson Cup title in 2010 , he led the Bobcats to the most successful regular season in history in the 2008 - 2009 season . The Bobcats won 43 games and earned 88 points in the standings , which both set franchise records . The Bobcats won consecutive Central Division Playoff titles under Pool in 2009 and 2010 . Other former Bobcat coaches include ; John Becanic ( currently head coach of the Wenatchee Wild of the NAHL ) , Chad Johnson ( currently head coach of the Lincoln Stars of the USHL ) and Dane Litke ( currently the Head Coach with the Janesville Jets of the NAHL ) . The 2011 - 2012 season is the franchise ' s 14th season in Bismarck . They are the second - oldest franchise in the NAHL behind the Springfield Jr . Blues . 20th Anniversary Season . The Bobcats will mark their 20th anniversary season in 2016 - 17 . On July 5 , 2016 the team released a special logo to mark the occasion and honor the team ' s past . The logo is topped off with nine stars ( 3 black and 6 gold ) noting the teams 3 ( black ) league titles ( 2003 , 2004 , 2010 ) and 6 ( gold ) playoff division titles ( 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , and 2016 ) . This logo design is similar to what international soccer teams do to mark championships on their team crest . Rivalries . The Bobcats have three primary rivals : the Aberdeen Wings , the Alexandria Blizzard and the Minot Minotauros . The longest - standing of the three rivalries is that which the Bobcats share with the Blizzard . The rivalry with Alexandria has built up since the Blizzard ' s entry in the league , and really hit its stride when the Bobcats eliminated the Blizzard from the playoffs in 2009 ( when Alexandria was the reigning division playoff champion ) , 2010 and 2011 ( when the Blizzard won the regular season division title ) . The rivalry hit a crescendo during the 2011 playoffs when a line brawl touched off amid a Bobcats ' 5 - 1 upset victory at the Runestone Community Center on April 2 . The Bobcats - Wings rivalry is in its second year , and is centered around the Titan Machinery Dakota Cup . The Bobcats , despite being the defending national champions in 2010 - 11 , suffered multiple setbacks against the expansion Wings in front of capacity crowds at both teams ' rinks before finally wrestling the new traveling trophy away from their South Dakota neighbors by a point total of 15 - 11 . The Bobcats and Tauros are in the first year of their intrastate rivalry , but the proximity ( roughly 100 miles along US - 83 ) of the two teams that share North Dakota has already produced multiple fights and plenty of bad blood .