Calgary Oval X-Treme

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The Calgary Oval X-Treme are an ice hockey team in the National Women's Hockey League. They are based out of Calgary, Alberta and play at the Olympic Oval. The Oval X-Treme were a member of the NWHL for two seasons before breaking away to help form the Western Women's Hockey League in 2004. In 2006, the two leagues were reunited under the NWHL banner.

Founded: 1995

Division titles won: 2003, 04, 07

Regular season titles won: 2005, 06, 07

League championships won: 2003, 04, 05, 06, 07

Esso Canadian national championships won: 1998, 2001, 03, 07

1 History
2 Season-by-season record
3 See also
4 References

[edit] History

The Oval X-Treme were founded in 1995 as an amateur team for women's hockey players in Calgary, quickly developing a heated rivalry with their northern counterparts, the Edmonton Chimos. In 2002, the Oval X-Treme were approached, along with the Chimos, to join the semi-professional National Women's Hockey League. The two teams joined the Vancouver Griffins to form the West division of the NWHL. After the 03-04 season, where the Oval X-Treme and Chimos faced only each other due to prohibative costs to fly out east, the two franchises left the NWHL to form the five team Western Women's Hockey League.

Partially as a result of the Canadian national team being based in Calgary, the Oval X-Treme features many of Canada's top women's hockey players, including Hayley Wickenheiser, Danielle Goyette and Cassie Campbell. As a result, the Oval X-Treme have become the undisputed powerhouse of women's hockey in western Canada, winning five consecutive league championships, and compiling a regular season mark of 95-3-2-1 in their last five seasons.

[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	League	GP	W	L	T	OTL	Points	GF	GA	Finish	Playoffs
2002-03	NWHL	19	18	1	0	0	36	119	31	1st West	Won championship
2003-04	NWHL	12	11	1	0	0	22	64	9	1st West	Won championship
2004-05	WWHL	21	20	0	1	0	41	152	18	1st overall	Won championship
2005-06	WWHL	24	22	0	1	1	46	126	43	1st overall	Won championship
2006-07	WWHL	24	23	1	0	0	46	172	24	1st West	Won WWHL championship