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Kitchener Rangers

Year of foundation: 1963
Colours: Blue, red, white
Club status: active
Address: Kitchener Rangers Hockey Club
400 East Avenue
Kitchener, Ontario
Canada N2H 1Z6
Phone: +1 (519) 576-3700
Fax: +1 (519) 576-7571
Email: mfortin@kitchenerrangers.com
WWW: Kitchener Rangers

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All time leagues: OHA | OJHL | OHL | WHL | Memorial Cup

Season 1997-1998

This club in 1997-1998: OHL

Pos	Player name	Born	Height	Weight	Shoots
G	Tim Knudsen	04.06.1979	185 cm	101 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Vratislav Cech	28.01.1979	184 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Wes Jarvis	16.04.1979	195 cm	101 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Allan Rourke	06.03.1980	185 cm	97 kg	left	Show profile»
D/F	Serge Payer	09.05.1979	180 cm	86 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Michal Dvorak	12.08.1979	184 cm	96 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Ryan Held	30.01.1980	187 cm	88 kg	N/A	Show profile»
RW	Evgeny Lazarev	25.04.1980	188 cm	98 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Travis Lisabeth	01.04.1980	180 cm	91 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Darren Mortier	04.05.1978	182 cm	83 kg	right	Show profile»

Coach name	State	Born	Coach position
Geoff Ward		08.02.1962	Head Coach	Show profile»

* no longer in the club

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Kitchener Memorial Auditorium

Adress: 400 East Avenue
Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 1Z6
Phone: +1 519-741-2699
Email: info@theaud.ca
Web: http://www.theaud.ca
Capacity: 6268
Opened in: 1950

The Rangers are a publicly owned hockey team, governed by a 40-person Board of Directors made up of season ticket subscribers.

he roots of the Kitchener Rangers are traced back to the 1947-48 hockey season when the franchise was formed as the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters. In 1960 the "Biltmores" as they were often called became the Guelph Royals. At the end of the 1962-63 season, a local business entrepreneur named Eugene George was approached by the New York Rangers about moving the team to Kitchener in hopes of building a more stable junior environment.
The team moved into the Kitchener Auditorium for the start of the 1963-64 season, which had previously been home to the Kitchener Greenshirts and the Kitchener Canucks. The Rangers were successful promoting the team in the community, drawing high attendance despite a poor first season. By 1968 the Rangers were a first place team that had reached the league finals twice.

Retired numbers
# 3 Scott Stevens
# 4 Al MacInnis
# 6 Paul Coffey
# 7 Bill Barber
# 19 Larry Robinson
# 21 Jim McGeachie
# 22 Gary Crosby

from 1947 to 1960: Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters
from 1960 to 1963: Guelph Royals
from 1963 to present: Kitchener Rangers

League winners:

2007-2008: OHL
2002-2003: OHL
2002-2003: Memorial Cup
1981-1982: OHL
1981-1982: Memorial Cup
1980-1981: OHL

from 1963 to present:

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Fast factsseason 1997-1998

Youngest player: Evgeny Lazarev (18 years)
Oldest player: Darren Mortier (20 years)
Shortest player: Travis Lisabeth (180 cm)
Tallest player: Wes Jarvis (195 cm)
Nationalities: Canada (7), Czechia (2), Ukraine (1)

Leagues

Kitchener Rangers participates in season 1997-1998: OHL

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