Grand Falls - Windsor Cataracts The Grand Falls - Windsor Cataracts are a senior ice hockey team based in Grand Falls - Windsor , Newfoundland and Labrador as part of the Central / West Senior Hockey League . They were formerly the Grand Falls Cataracts . Since 1966 , the Cataracts have been awarded the Herder Memorial Trophy seven times as all - Newfoundland senior hockey champions . They are the current Newfoundland senior hockey champions , winning back - to - back titles . The club has received the Evening Telegram Trophy on four occasions after finishing first in the NSHL regular season . The Cataracts have played all their home games at the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium , formerly known as the Grand Falls Stadium until 1991 . History . The Grand Falls Cataracts were founded in 1966 by a group led by Leo Murphy , Al Dwyer Jr . , Jim Temple and Walter Davis and supported by the Cataracts Booster Club whose members were ex - hockey players and hockey fans . The Cataracts joined the Newfoundland Senior Hockey League ( NSHL ) for the 1966 - 67 season . The previous papertown entry in the provincial senior league , the Grand Falls Andcos , had folded at the end of the 1964 - 65 season . Winnipeg native Nick Mickoski was hired as the Cataracts ' first head coach . At the end of the 1967 - 68 regular season , the Cataracts finished in first place and were awarded the Evening Telegram Trophy . The Cataracts won back - to - back all - Newfoundland senior hockey championships in 1981 and 1982 but did not join the NSHL in 1983 - 84 . The club re - joined the NSHL in 1984 - 85 to make it a four - team league . At the end of the 2010 - 2011 season the Cataracts defeated the Conception Bay North Cee Bee Stars 4 - 0 in the finals series to win the Herder Memorial Trophy . From 2011 - 14 the club was part of the re - formed Newfoundland Senior Hockey League . In 2012 Herder finals , the Cataracts were runners - up to the Clarenville Caribous who took the Provincial title . On March 8 , 2015 , Cataracts ' import Rob Hennigar scored the OT winner to win the CWSHL finals series four - games - to - two . The Cataracts were awarded their second straight all - Newfoundland senior championship and the home town received its thirteenth Herder Memorial Trophy . Seasons and records . Season by season results . " Note : GP = Games played , W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , OTL = Overtime Losses , Pts = Points , GF = Goals for , GA = Goals against , DNQ = Did not qualify " NSHL = Newfoundland Senior Hockey League or Newfoundland Senior Hockey League ( 2011 - 2014 ) , CBIHL = Central Beothuk Intermediate Hockey League , WCSHL = West Coast Senior Hockey League , CWSHL = Central / West Senior Hockey League " Current roster . " For the current team roster see the Cataracts profile on the league website " < br > < br > < br > League trophies and awards . League individual awards . Top Scorer ( in the regular season ) Top goal scorer ( in the regular season ) Coach of the Year Rookie of the Year Hockey NL ( HNL ) Trophies and Awards . HNL team awards . < br > HNL individual awards . S . E Tuma Memorial Trophy ( Top scorer in the regular season ) < br > T . A . ( Gus ) Soper Memorial Award ( MVP in the regular season ) < br > Albert " Peewee " Crane Memorial Trophy ( Senior league rookie of the year ) < br > Howie Clouter Memorial Trophy ( Most Gentlemanly and Effective Player in the regular season ) < br > President ' s Goaltender ' s Award ( Top goaltender in the regular season ) < br > Top Defenseman ( Top defenseman in the regular season ) < br > Coach of the Year < br > Cliff Gorman Memorial Award ( Most valuable player of the Herder Playoffs ) < br > Honoured members . Retired numbers . " Note : ( the year of retirement is noted ) NL Hockey Hall of Fame . The following people associated with the Cataracts have been inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame . < br >