West Kelowna Warriors

The West Kelowna Warriors are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. They are a part of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and play in the Interior Conference.
==History==
The West Kelowna Warriors are a relocated franchise, moving to West Kelowna in 2006 from Langley, British Columbia.
Langley was originally granted a British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCJHL) franchise in 1973 called the Langley Lords. The team played as the Lords through the 1975-76 season. In those three years they had very decent regular seasons, making it to the playoffs each year, including a loss in the league finals in their first season. In 1976 the Lords changed their name to the Langley Thunder. Their regular season performance diminished each year, and they missed the playoffs for the first time in the franchise's history in the 1978-79 season. Shortly after the completion of the 1978-79 season, the franchise ceased operations. An unrelated BCJHL franchise, the Chilliwack Colts, relocated to become the Langley Eagles from 1981-82 through the 1986-87 seasons, before moving back to Chilliwack, British Columbia.
In 1990 the BCJHL was renamed the BCHL, and in 1994 Langley returned to the BCHL with a new franchise, adopting the name Thunder from the defunct franchise of the 1970s. The new franchise competed as the Thunder for five seasons, reaching the BCHL championship finals in 1996, which they lost to the eventual Junior A national Royal Bank Cup champion Vernon Vipers, 4–1.
 The Thunder changed their name to the Langley Hornets before the start of the 1998-99 season. Playing in Langley from 1998 through the 2005-06 season, the Hornets were led by several coaches. Coach Rick Lanz is notable for taking the last place 2001-02 team and guiding them to a fourth place finish in the 2002-03 season, though the team would be eliminated in the first round of the BCHL playoffs. Lanz was not re-signed for the next season, and the team returned to last place in the BCHL.
Before the start of the 2006-07 season the franchise moved from Langley to the unincorporated area on the "westside" of Kelowna, British Columbia, and renamed themselves the Westside Warriors.
The Westside Warriors found immediate success, reaching the BCHL playoffs in the 2006-07 season, followed in 2007-08 with a third place BCHL finish in the regular season and making it to the BCHL semi-finals in the playoffs.
In late 2007 the unincorporated area the Westside Warriors called home became the incorporated Westside District Municipality, and in 2008 changed its name to West Kelowna. The franchise kept the place name Westside, rather than West Kelowna, through the 2011-12 season.
In the summer of 2012, the Westside Warriors announced they would be changing their name to the West Kelowna Warriors, recognizing the proper name of the municipality they play in.
The Warriors won the BCHL's Fred Page Cup Playoffs in 2016 and followed it up with winning the 2016 Western Canada Cup to qualify for the 2016 Royal Bank Cup.
==Season-by-season record==
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
===BCJHL Langley Lords/Thunder===
Season 	GP	W 	L 	T	GF 	GA 	Points	Finish 	Playoffs
1973-74	64	38	24	2	326	283	78 	1st in Coastal	Lost in Finals
1974-75	66	34	31	1	330	351	69 	1st in Coastal	Lost in Quarter-Finals
1975-76	66	32	31	3	349	298	67 	5th in League 	Lost in Quarter-Finals
1976-77	68	30	37	1	351	362	62 	3rd in Coastal	Lost in Semi-Finals
1977-78	66	19	47	0	250	423	38 	5th in Coastal	Lost in Quarter-Finals
1978-79	62	22	36	4	284	348	48 	5th in Coastal	DNQ
1979 - BCJHL Langley Thunder ceases operations. (unrelated franchise moves to Langley from Chilliwack in 1981, returns to Chilliwack in 1987)
1994 - New BCHL franchise created in Langley, adopts name from 1979 Langley Thunder.
2006 - Langley franchise moves west of Kelowna, becomes Westside Warriors.
===BCHL Langley Thunder/Hornets, Westside/West Kelowna Warriors===
Season 	GP	W 	L 	T	OL	GF 	GA 	Points	Finish 	Playoffs
1994-95	60	38	21	1	- 	321	252	77 	2nd in Mainland	Lost in Quarter-Finals
1995-96	60	38	19	3	- 	317	273	79 	2nd in Mainland	Lost in Finals
1996-97	60	21	35	4	- 	228	289	46 	7th in Coastal 	DNQ
1997-98	60	26	31	3	- 	219	239	55 	6th in Coastal 	DNQ
1998-99	60	44	12	4	- 	330	219	92 	1st in Mainland	Lost in Semi-Finals
1998-99	60	20	38	-	2 	242	294	42 	3rd in Mainlad 	Lost in 1st Round
1999-00	60	41	17	-	2 	305	247	84 	1st in Mainland	Lost in Semi-Finals
2000-01	60	29	25	-	6 	222	239	64 	4th in Mainland	Lost in 1st Round
2001-02	60	19	34	-	7 	226	274	45 	5th in Mainland	DNQ
2002-03	60	34	22	-	1 	225	231	72 	2nd in Mainland	Lost in 1st Round
2003-04	60	19	36	1	4 	205	286	43 	4th in Mainland	DNQ
2004-05	60	12	42	1	5 	169	277	30 	4th in Mainland	DNQ
2005-06	60	32	23	1	4 	179	181	69 	3rd in Mainland	Lost in Quarter-Finals
2006-07	60	23	25	3	9 	192	221	58 	7th in Mainland	Lost in Preliminary
2007-08	60	40	17	0	3 	237	161	83 	3rd BCHL 	Lost in Semi-Finals
2008-09	60	37	18	1	4 	220	162	79 	5th BCHL 	
2009-10	60	38	18	1	3 	244	173	80 	4th BCHL 	Lost Quarter-final
2010-11	60	33	20	2	5 	246	183	73 	4th, Interior 	Lost Division Semi-final
2011-12	60	22	29	2	7 	190	208	53 	11th BCHL 	DNQ
2012 - Westside area now the municipality of West Kelowna, franchise renamed West Kelowna Warriors.
===BCHL West Kelowna Warriors===
Season 	GP	W 	L 	T 	OL	GF 	GA 	Points	Finish 	Playoffs
2012-13	56	30	13	4 	9 	205	151	73 	2nd in Interior - 4th BCHL 	Lost in Division Finals
2013-14	58	35	15	3 	5 	225	173	78 	2nd in Interior - 5th BCHL 	Lost in Division Semi-Finals
2014-15	58	29	21	0 	8 	205	210	44 	4th of 6 Interior7th of 16 BCHL	Lost Div. Semi-Finals, 1-4 (Vees)
2015-16	58	38	17	2 	1 	242	180	79 	2nd of 6 Interior3rd of 17 BCHL	
Won Div. Semi-Finals, 4-2 (Silverbacks)Won Div. Finals, 4-2 (Vees)2nd of 3 Round Robin (Clippers & Chiefs)Won League Finals, 4-2 (Chiefs)BCHL Champions,2016 Western Canada Cup champions 2016 Royal Bank Cup champions
2016-17	58	27	29	0 	2 	175	201	204 	4th of 6 InteriorT-9th BCHL 	Lost Div. Quarter-final 0-4 (Merritt Centennials)
2017-18	58	28	27	1 	2 	198	221	56 	5th of 7 Interior8th BCHL 	Lost Div. Quarter-final 0-4 (Smoke Eaters)
2018-19	58	28	28	1 	1 	210	220	58 	6th of 7 InteriorT-11th BCHL 	Lost Div. Quarter-final 3-4 (Wenatchee Wild)
2019-20	58	16	33	6 	3 	160	223	41 	6th of 7 Interior12th BCHL 	Lost Div. Quarter-final 1-4 (Vees)
2020-21	20	8 	10	1 	1 	58 	72 	18 	3rd Vernon Pod 	Playoffs Cancelled
2021-22	54	37	16	1 	0 	231	156	75 	3rd Interior 	Lost Conference Final
2022-23	54	28	20	6 	0 	211	205	62 	3rd Interior 	Lost Conference Quarterfinals
2023-24	54	33	10	11	0 	208	158	77 	2nd Interior 	
==See also==
*List of ice hockey teams in British Columbia
==External links==
*West Kelowna Warriors website
Category:British Columbia Hockey League teams
Category:Canadian ice hockey teams