The community-owned Calgary Canucks are the oldest operating hockey franchise in Calgary and the AJHL.
General Inquiries
Email: general@calgarycanucks.ca
Mailing Address
1001 Barlow Trail SE
Calgary, Alberta
T2E 6S2
The Calgary Canucks are a Junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). They play in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with home games at the Ken Bracko Arena. They have won the AJHL championship ten times and one national championship.
Hockey Operations
- Head Coach and General Manager: Brad Moran
- Assistant Coach: Mike Glawson
- Assistant Coach: Mat Robinson
- Assistant/Skills Coach: Jamie Henry
- Goalie Coach: Mike Bergren
- Head Scout: Ryan Rarick
- Assistant General Manager Business Operations: Rachelle Baril
- Athletic Therapist / Strength Coach : Logan Blackmore
- Assistant Equipment Manager: Curtis Watling
Canucks Crew – Team Leads
- Lead, Sponsorships: Bobby Widdifield
- Lead, Off-ice Officials: Corey Kinghorn
- Lead, Community Operations and Communications: Lindsay Clothier
- Lead, Social Media: Billie Barrett
- Lead, Marketing Content: Mackenzie Grafton
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
| Sandy Edmonstone | President & Chairman of the Board |
| Bill Andrew | Governor |
| Lyle Michaluk | Treasurer |
| Peter Crisfield | Vice-President, Governance |
| Morgan Melnyk | Vice-President, Marketing Strategy & Media Relations |
| Dan Toews | Vice-President, Finance |
| Lyle Peterman | Chair, Game Day Operations |
| Mark Stiles | Chair, Sponsorship & Sales |
| Darin Banister | Chair, Hockey Operations |
| Geoff Crisfield | Chair, Player Engagement & Recruitment |
| Joy Tamke | Chair, Community, Events & Fundraising |
| Joe Quinn | Chair, Alumni Relations |
| Tyler Shandro | Member at Large |
| Allyson Bertamini | Member at Large |
| Mandy Chase | Member at Large |
| Richard Running Rabbit | Member at Large |
| Dennis Inglis | Parent Liaison |
| Richard Hearn | Parent Liaison |
History
Founded in 1971, the Calgary Canucks are the second-oldest franchise still operating in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), preceded only by the Spruce Grove Saints. The Canucks franchise has the longest tenure of any in the AJHL in one city.
The Canucks organization was formed of a group led by Doug Eastcott in order to create a junior team so that local players did not have to live away from where they attended school. As the team considered itself a Calgary-based development system, it set an internal limit of three “imports” (non-Calgary area players) per season. The import cap was eventually dropped as the AJHL has added more teams in the Calgary region such as the Calgary Royals and Okotoks Oilers, causing the team to recruit from a larger region.
The Canucks qualified for the playoffs 34 consecutive seasons, a streak finally broken in 2006–07, The team has 11 regular season titles, nine AJHL championships, two Doyle Cup titles, and one Centennial Cup National Junior A Championship. The team has developed multiple players that have reached the National Hockey League, including Dany Heatley and two-time Stanley Cup winner Mike Vernon. Many more have earned scholarships to American and Canadian universities.
During the 2021–22 season, while renovations made their home Ken Bracko Arena unavailable,[1] the Canucks played their home games at Henry Viney Arena.
Junior A National Championship
The National Junior A Championship, known as the Centennial Cup and formerly as Royal Bank Cup or RBC Cup, is the postseason tournament for the Canadian national championship for Junior A hockey teams that are members of the Canadian Junior Hockey League since 1971. Since 1986, the tournament has consisted of the regional Junior A champions and a previously selected host team. Since 1990, the national championship has used a five-team tournament format when the regional qualifiers were designated as the ANAVET Cup (Western), Doyle Cup (Pacific), Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), and Fred Page Cup (Eastern). From 2013 to 2017, the qualifiers were the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), Fred Page Cup (Eastern), and the Western Canada Cup champions and runners-up (Western #1 and #2).
The tournament begins with round-robin play between the five teams followed by the top four teams playing a semifinal game, with the top seed facing the fourth seed and the second facing the third. The winners of the semifinals then face each other in final game for the national championship. In some years, the losers of the semifinal games face each other for a third place game.
NHL alumni
The following former Canucks have gone on to play in the National Hockey League (NHL):
