City St. Albert, Alberta Home arena Akinsdale Arena General manager Craig Dory Location St. Albert, Canada | Division West Division Colours Blue, Gold, White Arena Akinsdale & Kinex Arenas Date founded 1983 | |
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League Capital Junior Hockey League | ||
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The St. Albert Merchants are a Canadian Junior B ice hockey team located in St. Albert, Alberta. They play in the Capital Junior Hockey League out of the Akinsdale Arena. They are coached by Scott Rodda.
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The Merchants are among the most successful teams in CJHL history, winning a total of eight league titles during their existence, along with many provincial titles as well.
History
The Merchants were founded in 1983, and have historically been among the more successful teams in the league. They won the league championship, and the provincial championship, in 1985-86, their third year. They won the league championship again in the 1987-88, before finishing second at the provincials. They won the league championship again the next two years, and again in 1994-95. They repeated, yet again, in 1995-96, winning the provincial title, before finishing runner-up at the 1996 Keystone Cup. In 1996-97, the Merchants went undefeated in the regular season, before winning the league championship yet again. The following season, they finished second in the first edition of the new provincial championship, the champion of whom now won the Russ Barnes Trophy. They made the provincials again the next season, before losing in the provincial semi-finals. Since the turn of the century, the Merchants have had a number of difficult seasons, interspersed by a league title in 2004-05. They often did not progress past the first round in many seasons, before the 2012-13 season, when they returned to the league final, where they lost to the Sherwood Park Knights. They made the league final again the following year, losing again, this time to the Fort Saskatchewan Hawks. In 2014-15, they finished first in their division, but were upset in the second round by the Stony Plain Flyers. In January 2014, the Merchants donated all admission ticket sales and money raised from the 50/50 draw to the local RCMP station, in an act of remembrance for the RCMP officer killed in a shooting outside a St. Albert casino the previous year.
Recent 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
Records as of 2014-15 season.