Notre Dame Hounds The Notre Dame Hounds are a junior " A " ice hockey team based in Wilcox , Saskatchewan . They are members of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League ( SJHL ) . The Hounds also had a junior " B " team that played in the South Saskatchewan Junior B Hockey League , but the team folded after the 2005 – 06 Season . The team plays their homes games in Duncan McNeill Arena , which has a seating capacity of 1 , 200 . The team colours are red and white . The Notre Dame Hounds is the name of the hockey team of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame . The school is a residential high school in the village of Wilcox in south - central Saskatchewan , Canada . This school is very well known for the large number of NHL players that have attended it . It won the 1987 - 88 Centennial Cup which is the Canadian junior A championship . Throughout the years Notre Dame has entered teams at various levels . The school itself was founded by Father Athol Murray in 1927 . History . The Hounds first came to the SJHL in 1970 . The team only kept afloat until 1976 , when , after a dismal season , they left the SJHL . Not much is known about the franchise between 1976 and 1987 . It is known that they operated as a Midget " AAA " Minor Hockey team until 1987 and lost the final of the Canadian Midget Championship , the Air Canada Cup , to the Quebec seed in the tournament . In 1987 , the Hounds came straight into Tier II Junior " A " from Midget hockey and took the league by storm . The team came out of the regular season with a series of tight victories , but enough of them to earn them a birth in the playoffs . The Hounds , operating well as a unit which had stayed mostly intact for 3 seasons , found little trouble winning the SJHL Championship . Their only real competition was the Yorkton Terriers who took them to Game 6 . The Hounds moved on to the Anavet Cup to face the Winnipeg South Blues of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League . The Hounds easily swept the series in 4 games . They then moved on to face the Calgary Canucks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Abbott Cup . At first , the Hounds were out matched . They went down early , being led in the series 3 - games - to - 1 . They stormed back in Game 5 to win 7 - 2 and then won Game 6 . In Game 7 with a 3 - 2 lead , future National Hockey League ( NHL ) player Curtis Joseph took control and closed the door . The Game 7 victory earned the team a birth into the Centennial Cup . In the first game , the Hounds played the Halifax Lions of the Metro Valley Junior Hockey League , defeating them 6 - 5 . In the second game , they played the Thunder Bay Flyers of the United States Hockey League , the result was a 9 - 7 win . The next game was a nail - biter . The Hounds took on the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Central Junior A Hockey League and lost in triple overtime by a score of 4 - 3 . The Semi - final placed them again against the Lumber Kings , but this time they were ready to win and took in 7 - 3 . This set up a Final between the Hounds and the Lions . After 2 periods , the Hounds found themselves down 2 - 1 . They tied it up early , and then late in the game , on a feeder from future NHL player Rod Brind ' Amour , future gold medal winning hero of the 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Dwayne Norris scored the game winner . Brind ' Amour won awards for being the Top Scorer , Most Valuable Player , and Top Centre , while another future NHL player , Joby Messier , won Top Defenseman . Perhaps the team ' s best known contribution to the NHL is the Toronto Maple Leafs Hound Line of the 1985 – 86 season , when Gary Leeman , Wendel Clark and Russ Courtnall played on the same forward line . From the 1987 – 88 Championship team , 19 player graduated to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Hockey Program , and some , like Rod Brind ' Amour , Curtis Joseph , Joby Messier , Dwayne Norris , Jason Herter , and Scott Pellerin , made it all the way to the National Hockey League . Since 1995 , the Hounds have only failed to make the SJHL playoffs three times , but have yet to win their second league title . Season - by - season standings . GP = Games Played , W = Wins , L = Lose , T = Tie , OTL = Overtime Lose , GF = Goals For , GA = Goals Against , P = Points