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Division
  
North

Home arena
  
Rod Brind'Amour Arena

Location
  
Campbell River, Canada

Founded
  
1997 (1997)–98

Colours
  
Black

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City
  
Campbell River, British Columbia

League
  
Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League

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The Campbell River Storm are a Junior "B" ice hockey team based in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the North Division of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL). The Storm play their home games at Rod Brind'Amour Arena. Lee Stone has been the coach since 2013. They are captained by forward Gage Colpron

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The Storm joined the league in 1997 as an expansion team. In its VIJHL history, the team has won the Cyclone Taylor Cup twice, in 1999 and 2015. The Storm have won the Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy eight times in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 2004 and 2015. They won the Andy Hebenton Trophy six times, as the team with the league's best regular season record in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

In 2015, the Storm won the Keystone Cup as Western Canada's Junior B champions.

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History

The Storm play in the VIJHL, a Junior B hockey league on Vancouver Island consisting of 9 teams. The team began play in the 1997-98 season and went on to capture the Patterson Memorial Trophy as playoff champions in its first season. They would win the trophy 6 more times in a row, then reach the finals the following 2 seasons, losing in six games to the Victoria Cougars in 2005, then again in 6 games to the Kerry Park Islanders in 2006.

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They have played in 7 Cyclone Taylor Cup tournaments, winning it once in 1999. In 2004 they hosted it, losing to the Richmond Sockeyes of the Pacific International Junior Hockey League in the finals. Twice they have played in the Keystone Cup, capturing bronze in 1999 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, then taking silver as hosts in 2006, losing to the Red Deer Vipers of Alberta's Heritage Junior B Hockey League in overtime.

They play out of the Strathcona Gardens Complex in Campbell River, in Rod Brind'Amour Arena. They were owned and coached by Jim Revenberg, who was selected in the 7th round of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks, until Kevin and Linda Spooner bought the team in May, 2011.

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

Cyclone Taylor Cup

British Columbia Jr B Provincial Championships

  • - VIJHL Champs Victoria Cougars are Cyclone Cup hosts - Storm advance as VIJHL representative
  • Keystone Cup

    Western Canadian Jr. B Championships(Northern Ontario to British Columbia)
    Six teams in round robin play. 1st vs 2nd for gold/silver & 3rd vs. 4th for bronze.

    NHL alumni

    Other Notable Alumni

    Robert Izsak (MOL Liga)

    Brock Hooton (DEL)

    James Isaacs (EIHL)

    References

    Campbell River Storm Wikipedia