Edmonton Chimos

Edmonton Chimos
City	Edmonton, Alberta
League	Western Women's Hockey League
Founded	1973 (1973)
Folded	2011 (2011)
Home arena	River Cree Twin Arenas
Colours	Red, White and Blue
General manager	Dee Bateman
Head coach	Jason Schmidt

The Edmonton Chimos were a professional women's ice hockey team in the Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL). Founded in 1973, the team closed out its 38-year existence playing its home games at River Cree Twin Arenas in Edmonton, Canada. At that time, the team owner was Arlan Maschmayer.

The Chimos were founded in 1973^[1] following ads looking for women in the Edmonton area who wanted to play hockey. By the 1980s, they had become the dominant women's team in Alberta, capturing every Alberta provincial championship, except for one, from 1982 to 1997. Representing Alberta at the Esso Canadian national championships 16 times in their history, the Chimos have captured the National title four times: 1984, 1985, 1992 and 1997. In 2001, the Chimos were approached to join the National Women's Hockey League, along with their provincial rival, the Calgary Oval X-Treme. They joined the league in 2002 with the Calgary Oval X-Treme and the Vancouver Griffins to form the NWHL's Western Division. The Griffins folded after only one season, leaving just the two Alberta teams. Consistently overmatched by their Calgary rivals, and lacking true competition in the NWHL as the West division did not fly east, the Alberta clubs broke away from the NWHL to help form the five team Western Women's Hockey League in 2004 before the two leagues were once again united under the NWHL banner in 2006. However, this was short lived as the NWHL and WWHL could not reach an agreement upon a playoff schedule. As a result, the merger was not consummated. With the collapse of the NWHL in the summer of 2007, the Western Women's Hockey League was once again a completely independent league. The goal of the new league is to promote women’s hockey in the west.^[2]

For 2011–12 season, The Edmonton Chimos and Strathmore Rockies combined to form Team Alberta the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL). The new team played in different locations in Alberta. The team became based out of both Calgary and Edmonton to accommodate all of western Canada's elite female players.^[3][4][5] Team Alberta would later become the Calgary Inferno.

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points.

The following roster is from ^[when?].

Goaltenders
#	Country	Player	Catches	Age	Acquired	Former Team	Hometown
1		Keely Brown	L	48		Toronto Lady Blues - CIS	Kitchener, Ontario
31		Kristen Sugiyama	L	37	2010	Grant MacEwan Griffins - ACAC	Edmonton, Alberta
Defence
#	Country	Player	Shoots	Age	Acquired	Former Team	Hometown
6		Tegan Rose	L	31	2010	St. Albert Slash - AMMFHL	Gibbons, Alberta
9		Erin Duggan (C)	R	41	2007	Yale Bulldogs - NCAA	Beaumont, Alberta
12		Meaghan Mikkelson (A)	R	39	2007	Canadian National Women's Team	St. Albert, Alberta
14		Brittaney Maschmeyer	R	35	2010	Syracuse Orange - NCAA	Bruderheim, Alberta
17		Courtney Sawchuk (A)	L	36	2010	St. Lawrence Skating Saints - NCAA	Sherwood Park, Alberta
25		Taylor Williamson	R	31	2010		Spruce Grove, Alberta
81		Kelsey MacMillan	R	38	2009		Sherwood Park, Alberta
88		Tara Swanson	L	35	2010		Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Forwards
#	Country	Player	Shoots	Age	Acquired	Former Team	Hometown
5		Kelly Godel	R	35	2010	Edmonton Titans - NAFHA	Hythe, Alberta
8		Mallory Matheson	L	38	2008	NAIT Ooks - ACAC	Binscarth, Manitoba
11		Jennifer Moe	L	31	2010	Lloydminster Steelers - AMMFHL	Bonnyville, Alberta
16		Lauren Chiswell	L	37	2010	Grant MacEwan Griffins - ACAC	Edmonton, Alberta
18		Chelsea Purcell (A)	R	37	2010	Saskatchewan Huskies - CIS	Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan
19		Kathy Yeats	L	47			Coronation, Alberta
21		Lindsay Robinson	R	38	2009	Alberta Pandas - CIS	Edmonton, Alberta
24		Laura Dostaler	R	33	2009	Fort Saskatchewan Juniors	Beaumont, Alberta
27		Colleen Olson	R	36	2008		Sherwood Park, Alberta
33		Britney Millar	L	43		Mercyhurst Lakers - NCAA	Kingston, Ontario
77		Manuela Hebel	L	38	2010	Mannheim Kurpfalz	Freising, Germany

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• Head Coach: Jason Schmidt
• Assistant Coach: Chip Sawchuk
• Assistant Coach: Matt Appelt
• Trainer: Pat Toner

• Colette Prefontaine, Best Goaltender, 1998 Esso National championships^[10]

These are the top-ten point, goal, and assist scorers in franchise history. Figures are updated after each completed WWHL regular season.

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game; G/G = Goals per game; A/G = Assists per game; * = current Chimos player

Note: Statistics kept since 2004.

• The Abby Hoffman Cup: 1984, 1985, 1992, 1997

• Western Women's Hockey League (WWHL)
• List of ice hockey teams in Alberta

• Edmonton Chimos Facebook page