Portland Winter Hawks

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Portland Winter Hawks
City:	Portland, Oregon
League:	Western Hockey League
Conference:	Western
Division:	U.S.
Founded:	1976–77
Home Arena:	Rose Garden Arena & Memorial Coliseum
Colors:	red, white and black
Head Coach:	Richard Kromm
General Manager:	Ken Hodge, Jr.
Franchise history
1951–1976:	Edmonton Oil Kings
1976-Present:	Portland Winter Hawks

The Portland Winter Hawks are a major junior ice hockey team, playing in the Western Hockey League, a member league in the Canadian Hockey League, the highest level of non-professional hockey in the world. They play their home games at the Rose Garden Arena, and the old Memorial Coliseum.

The Winter Hawks have won the President's Cup twice, and the Memorial Cup twice in four appearances. The team has been in Portland since 1976–77 when the team moved from Edmonton, Alberta. While known as the Edmonton Oil Kings, the team won the Memorial Cup twice and was runner-up seven times.

Contents 1 History 2 Current Ownership 3 Season-by-season Record 4 Championships 5 Team records 6 NHL alumni 7 External links

[edit] History

Previous-Owner Brian Shaw was a pioneer in many aspects of Junior Hockey, not only moving a team to the United States for the first time, but also is credited with designing the current CHL championship format of the champion from each of the three leagues (WHL, OHL, and QMJHL) as well as a host-city team competing for the Memorial Cup. Portland won the Memorial Cup in 1983 and 1998.

The Winter Hawks were also pioneers of promotion and are credited with the invention of the "Dash for Cash" where contestants are picked to run onto the ice and try to scoop up as many silver dollars in 2 minutes as they could. This popular promotion has been running for many years. Also, in late November/early December, they hold their annual teddy bear toss, which fans throw teddy bears on the ice at the first Portland goal, which are then donated to local children's charities. In November, 2007, fans threw out more than 20,000 teddy bears.

The Winter Hawks wear jerseys similar to those of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League, causing some to erroneously assume that the Winter Hawks are a minor league farm team of the Blackhawks. In actuality, the jerseys originally worn by the first Winter Hawks team were a used set of Chicago jerseys obtained through connections between the owners of the two teams. In early photos, the old Chicago jerseys are identifiable by the letter C with crossed tomahawks on the shoulder crest. The Winter Hawks eventually changed the C to a P.

In recent seasons, the Winter Hawks have worn a unique alternate jersey, which is black with a red and white Portland skyline and the word PORTLAND around the bottom hem. Currently, they wear a white alternate jersey loosely based on a Montreal Canadiens jersey. Instead of the Canadiens' 'CH' logo, the jersey has the word PORTLAND in outlined letters across the front stripe, and is black where the Canadiens jersey is blue.

The Portland-Chicago connection runs even deeper, as the Blackhawks were founded in 1926 by Frederic McLaughlin, who simply bought the contracts of most of the members of the Portland Rosebuds and brought them to Chicago.

The team name of the Winter Hawks was inspired by a movie called Winterhawk. Team owner Brian Shaw liked the sound of the name, but decided it would be two words.

The team mascot of the Winter Hawks is a white bird with multicolored tail and wing feathers, named Tom-A-Hawk. Tom-A-Hawk was introduced in 1999–2000. He wears jersey number 00. Tom-A-Hawk's main rival is Cool Bird of the Seattle Thunderbirds.'

[edit] Current Ownership

In 2006 the team was sold to Principal Owner/CEO James Alan Goldsmith, plus Jack Donovan and John Bryant.

Jim Goldsmith is married to Kim Kaufman [1], who is one of three daughters of city developer Melvyn Kaufman. The Kaufman Portfolio [2] is a set of buildings mainly in Manhattan valued at over USD $200 million. Jim Goldsmith was responsible for running the assets of the portfolio for about four years, as the President of Sage Realty [3].

[edit] 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	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Points	Finish	Playoffs
1976–77	72	36	29	7	-	359	294	79	3rd West	Lost semi-final
1977–78	72	41	20	11	-	361	296	93	1st West	Eliminated in West Division round robin
1978–79	72	49	10	13	-	432	265	111	1st West	Lost final
1979–80	72	53	18	1	-	398	293	107	1st West	Eliminated in West Division round robin
1980–81	72	56	15	1	-	443	266	113	2nd West	Lost West Division final
1981–82	72	46	24	2	-	380	323	94	1st West	Won championship
1982–83	72	50	22	0	-	495	387	100	1st West	Lost final; Won Memorial Cup
1983–84	72	33	39	0	-	430	449	66	3rd West	Lost West Division final
1984–85	72	27	44	1	-	365	442	55	4th West	Lost West Division semi-final
1985–86	72	47	24	1	-	438	348	95	2nd West	Lost West Division final; Memorial Cup host
1986–87	72	47	23	2	-	439	355	96	2nd West	Lost final
1987–88	72	24	45	3	-	328	449	51	6th West	Out of playoffs
1988–89	72	40	28	4	-	408	395	84	1st West	Lost final
1989–90	72	24	45	3	-	322	426	51	5th West	Out of playoffs
1990–91	72	17	53	2	-	298	450	36	5th West	Out of playoffs
1991–92	72	31	37	4	-	314	342	66	5th West	Lost West Division quarter-final
1992–93	72	45	24	3	-	343	275	93	1st West	Lost final
1993–94	72	49	22	1	-	392	260	99	2nd West	Lost West Division final
1994–95	72	23	43	6	-	240	308	52	6th West	Lost West Division semi-final
1995–96	72	30	39	3	-	283	301	63	6th West	Lost West Division quarter-final
1996–97	72	46	21	5	-	300	196	97	1st West	Lost West Division quarter-final
1997–98	72	53	14	5	-	342	203	111	1st West	Won championship and Memorial Cup
1998–99	72	23	36	13	-	215	278	59	5th West	Lost West Division quarter-final
1999–00	72	16	49	7	0	173	296	39	7th West	Out of playoffs
2000–01	72	37	27	5	3	254	237	82	2nd West	Lost final
2001–02	72	36	25	5	6	269	243	83	1st U.S.	Lost Western Conference quarter-final
2002–03	72	19	40	8	5	192	243	51	3rd U.S.	Lost Western Conference quarter-final
2003–04	72	34	29	6	3	199	206	77	2nd U.S.	Lost Western Conference quarter-final
2004–05	72	35	27	5	5	204	198	80	2nd U.S.	Lost Western Conference quarter-final
Season	GP	W	L	OTL	SOL	GF	GA	Points	Finish	Playoffs
2005–06	72	32	32	3	5	204	258	72	3rd U.S.	Lost Western Conference semi-final
2006–07	72	17	52	1	2	146	316	37	5th U.S.	Out of playoffs
2007–08	72	11	58	2	1	132	318	25	5th U.S.	Out of playoffs

[edit] Championships

• Memorial Cup (2): 1981–82, 1997–98
• President's Cup (2): 1982–83, 1997–98
• Conference Champions (2): 1997–98, 2000–01
• Division Champions (11): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1992–93, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02

[edit] Team records

Team Records for a single season
Statistic	Total	Season
Most Points	113	1980–81
Most Wins	56	1980–81
Most Goals For	495	1982–83
Least Goals For	146	2006–07
Least Goals Against	196	1996–97
Most Goals Against	450	1990–91

Individual player records for a single season
Statistic	Player	Total	Season
Most Goals	Randy Heath; Dennis Holland	82	1982–83; 1988–89
Most Assists	Jim Benning	111	1980–81
Most Points	Dennis Holland	167	1988–89
Most Points, rookie	Cam Neely	120	1982–83
Most Points, defenceman	Jim Benning	139	1980–81
Best GAA (Goalie)	Blake Grenier	2.06	2004–05
Goalies = minimum 1500 minutes played

[edit] NHL alumni

List of Portland Winter Hawks alumni who have graduated to play in the National Hockey League.

Jim Agnew Dave Archibald Dave Babych Wayne Babych Jozef Balej Jeff Bandura Dave Barr Ryan Bast Brian Benning Jim Benning James Black Lonny Bohonos Keith Brown Braydon Coburn Ed Cooper Brian Curran Tony Currie Byron Dafoe Matt Davidson Adam Deadmarsh Jim Dobson Brandon Dubinsky Brent Fedyk Andrew Ference Ray Ferraro

Jeff Finley Colin Forbes Michael Funk Joaquin Gage Paul Gaustad Bob Geale Josh Green Jannik Hansen Randy Heath Marcel Hossa Marian Hossa Dave Hoyda Cale Hulse Jamie Huscroft Randy Ireland Brad Isbister Jakub Klepis Steve Konowalchuk John Kordic Richard Kromm Jason LaBarbera Scott Langkow James Latos Derek Laxdal Doug Lecuyer

Jamie Linden David Mackey Clint Malarchuk Darrell May Jason McBain Mark Messier Roy Mitchell Brenden Morrow Paul Mulvey Brantt Myhres Cam Neely Scott Nichol Gary Nylund Josh Olson Perry Pelensky Brent Peterson Jim Playfair Larry Playfair Andrej Podkonicky Ray Podloski Nolan Pratt Richie Regehr Florent Robidoux Jeff Rohlicek Grant Sasser

Dave Scatchard Jeff Sharples Brandon Smith Ryan Stewart Garret Stroshein Joey Tetarenko Mike Toal Tim Tookey Alfie Turcotte Perry Turnbull Randy Turnbull Nick Vachon Mike Vernon Terry Virtue Gord Walker Matt Walker Blake Wesley Glen Wesley Jason Wiemer Dan Woodley Gary Yaremchuk Ken Yaremchuk Brad Zavisha Richard Zednik

[edit] External links

• Portland Winter Hawks official homepage

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