Edmonton Chimos

The Edmonton Chimos are a women's ice hockey team in the Western Women's Hockey League. They are based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Chimos were a member of the National Women's Hockey League for two seasons before breaking away to help form the WWHL in 2004. In 2006, the two leagues were reunited under the NWHL banner. However, this was short lived as the NWHL and WWHL could not reach an agreement upon a playoff schedule. As a result, the merger was not consummated. With the collapse of the NWHL in the summer of 2007, the Western Women's Hockey League was once again a completely independent league.
== History ==
The Chimos were founded in 1973 following ads looking for women in the Edmonton area who wanted to play hockey. By the 1980s, they had become the dominant women's team in Alberta, capturing every Alberta provincial championship, except for one, from 1982-1997. Representing Alberta at the Esso Canadian national championships 16 times in their history, the Chimos have captured the National title four times: 1984, 1985, 1992 and 1997.
In 2001, the Chimos were approached to join the National Women's Hockey League, along with their provincial rival, the Calgary Oval X-Treme. They joined the league in 2002 with the Oval X-Treme and the Vancouver Griffins to form the NWHL's Western Division. The Griffins folded after only one season, leaving just the two Alberta teams. Consistently overmatched by their Calgary rivals, and lacking true competition in the NWHL as the West division did not fly east, the Alberta clubs broke away from the NWHL to help form the five team Western Women's Hockey League in 2004 before the two leagues were once again united under the NWHL banner in 2006.
==Season-by-season record==
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Season 	League	GP	W 	L 	T	OTL	GF 	GA 	Points	Finish 	Playoffs
2002-03Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.549, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6	NWHL 	24	3 	20	0	1 	35 	132	7 	3rd West 	Out of playoffs
2003-04Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009-10, p.550, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6	NWHL 	12	1 	11	0	0 	9 	64 	2 	2nd West 	Out of playoffs
2004-05 	WWHL 	21	12	8 	1	0 	65 	53 	34 	3rd overall	Lost final
2005-06 	WWHL 	24	16	5 	3	0 	102	47 	35 	2nd overall	Lost semi-final
2006-07 	NWHL 	24	15	8 	1	0 	31 	88 	63 	2nd West 	Lost semi-final
==Awards and honors==
*Colette Prefontaine, Best Goaltender, 1998 Esso National championships
==References==
Category:Canadian ice hockey teams
Category:Western Women's Hockey League teams
Category:Women's ice hockey teams in Canada
Category:Established in 1973
Category:Women's ice hockey teams
Category:Ice hockey teams in Alberta