Big Six Senior Hockey League The Big Six Hockey League , is a senior men ' s hockey league founded in December of 1959 . The is based out of the southeastern portion of Saskatchewan A previous league with the same name played from 1944 to 1955 in the Battleford - North Battleford area , Saskatchewan . The years that i have found are 1944 , 1945 , and 1954 . The teams that played are Battleford 1944 - 1945 , Legion ( 1945 ) , Marymount , ( 1945 ) North Battleford - Beaver Kinsmen ( 1944 - 1945 ) , North Battleforde - Collegaite Institute ( 1944 ) , North Battleford - SFTS ( 1944 - 1945 ) , North Battleford - St Thomas More ( 1944 - 1945 ) and North Battleford - Services ( 1944 ) . Theses teams played in 1955 and they are Battleford , Gaslyn , Lashburn , Maidestone , Meadow Lake , Neilburg , North Battleford - St Thomas More , Turtleford and Vawn - Edam . Founding of league and Early History . The Big Six Hockey League was formed at a small meeting in a garage in Oxbow in December of 1959 , when the old Soo Line Hockey League seemed to be dying . Ken John of Estevan was one of the original founders and he wrote up the league ' s first constitution . Other founders were Cec Papke , Estevan ; Hugh Mitchell , Glen Ewen ; Bill Whatmore , Frobisher ; Ken Caverley , Oxbow ; Clarence Ching , Oxbow ; Percy Hodgson , Glen Ewen ; Percy Quick , Frobisher ; Hank Dntnstauder , Bienfait and R . C . Goodwin , Frobisher . The first season the league consisted of four teams including the Bienfait Coalers , Frobisher Flyers , Glen Ewen Eagles and Oxbow Aces . The Estevan Miners took part in the league that first year , but their games were just exhibition matches and they did not take part in the playoffs . The name for the league , according to Cec Papke of Calgary , came from the Big Six Brewery in Lethbridge , Alberta . He said that there was a Big Six League in Alberta and Manitoba and he suggested that they use the same name in Saskatchewan . The original championship trophy , The Lincoln Trophy , which is still used today , was donated by , then resident of Bienfait , Ken Lincoln , who was the head carpenter during the construction of the Bienfait - Coalfields Memorial Arena . Ken now resides in Wawota . The Morton Burke Trophy for the League ' s Top Point - Getter , which is also still used today , was donated by Cec Papke at the start of the 1960 / 61 season and he went on to win that trophy by the end of that season , which was the league ' s second year of existence . The Howard Enmark Trophy for finishing in First Place in the regular season was donated by the Bienfait Coalers at the start of the 1962 / 63 season . This award is another that is still in use today ! Over the years just about every small town in southeast Saskatchewan has been in the Big Six at one time or another . The number of teams in the league has risen and fallen at times and reached as many as twelve at one point . The competition has been fast and furious over the years and many rivalries have been formed as a result . Playoff Champions . Teams , in Saskatchewan , that played 2003 / 2004 Arcola / Kisbey Combines , Bienfait Coalers , Carlyle Cougars , Carnduff Red Devils , Moosomin , Wawota Flyers , Weyburn Devils found this at www . bigsixhockey . com