The team improved by another 21 points the following season, finishing with a record of 44-17-5-2 (95 points) under the tutelage of newly minted head coach Mike Van Ryn in 2015-16. The final game drew 4091 spectators who saw Bellows score a hat trick, leading the Rangers to a 7-4 victory, winning its first Memorial Cup. St. Catharines Black Hawks 6-2 (pts) in Round 1, Lost to Hamilton Fincups 8-0 in Quarter-Final, Lost to Windsor Spitfires 3-0 (pts) in Round 1, Def. The Kitchener Rangers have appeared in the Memorial Cup six times, winning twice. Kitchener played in the finals again, losing a very close series 4 games to 3 with a tie, to the eventual Memorial Cup Champions Niagara Falls Flyers. They are one of the most successful Canadian Hockey League teams in terms of alumni with over 180 players and coaches going on to serve in the NHL including Gabriel Landeskog, Jeff Skinner, Radek Faksa, John Gibson, Nazem Kadri, Mike Richards, David Clarkson, Steve Mason, Derek Roy and Peter DeBoer. In May 2007 it was announced that the Rangers would host the 2008 Memorial Cup, giving the team an automatic entry into the tournament. Kitchener defeated Laval 8-2 in game one, holding Lemieux scoreless. 1997 was also the only season in the 90's where the Rangers won their division. Centreman Grant Martin was just two points shy of joining them in the century club, notching 41 goals and 98 points. List of coaches with multiple seasons in parentheses.

The Rangers were led offensively by right winger Wayne Presley (63 goals, 139 points in 70 regular season games) and centre John Tucker (40 goals, 100 points in 39 games). They skated to a 3-0 series win with three ties to earn their first J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions in franchise history. McGeachie was 19 years old.

The following season the Rangers finished with a modest record of 34-26-6-2 as they competed with division rivals, the London Knights and Guelph Storm, who each finished the campaign with more than 100 points. In the clinching game, the teams exchanged goals throughout the night, the Rangers erasing 1-0 and 2-1 leads. They once again clashed with the Sault Ste. Much like the first game between the two teams, the championship went into double overtime.

The Rangers won the Emms Division for the second year in a row with a much improved record (44-21-3). They returned to the playoffs, but fell to the London Knights, 4-2, in the opening round. Kitchener earned its 3rd straight first round bye, before sweeping the London Knights in the second round. The team forged on the next season in 2006-07, once again turning out another 47-win campaign (47-17-1-3, 98 points), but again finished second in the Midwest Division to the London Knights (50-14-1-3, 104 points). Their division title set up a first-round playoff matchup with the Sault Ste. The strong showing of the Rangers over the last three seasons earned Kitchener the right to host the Memorial Cup in 1984. The team's first regular season game featured the Rangers and the visiting St. Catharines Black Hawks on Tuesday, October 15, 1963 which dressed the likes of league All-Stars Dennis Hull and Doug Jarrett. The Rangers faced off against the Ottawa 67's, coached by Brian Kilrea, in the league final and claimed their second straight J. Ross Robertson Cup with a 4-0 series victory, including one tie. Kitchener's playoff conquest would begin against the Niagara Falls Flyers, dismantling them with a 4-2 series win, including one tie. 9.7K likes. Their first round playoff match-up was against the Plymouth Whalers, but besides eking out a 5-4 win in Game 3, the Rangers were handily defeated in the series, 4-1. Windsor Spitfires 9-1 (pts) in Division Final, Def. [1][2] Fanelli lay unconscious while twitching and foaming at the mouth before being rushed to hospital in critical condition with skull and orbital bone fractures. He is also selling bracelets beginning on November 16, 2012. After defeating the Saginaw Spirit in six games in Round 1, and the London Knights in Game 7 of Round 2, the Rangers took a 3-0 series lead over the Windsor Spitfires in the Western Conference Final but surrendered four straight games to the eventual Memorial Cup champion Spits, who never lost another game after Game 3 vs. the Rangers en route to the CHL championship. Kitchener went through the round-robin with a 1 and 2 record, defeating Gatineau 6-5 (OT), losing to Spokane 1-2, and losing to Belleville 3-4 (OT).

The Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex includes Jack Couch Park for baseball, Kiwanis and Kinsmen ice pads in the arena, and the main Auditorium arena known as the Dom Cardillo Arena. Kitchener defeated Laval 8-2 in game one, holding Lemieux scoreless. Forwards Ryan MacInnis and Adam Mascherin led the team in points with 81, and Jeremy Bracco dazzled fans by registering the second longest point streak in Rangers' franchise history from October 7 - December 9 (26 games), tallying 17 goals and 34 assists for 51 points in that span. The 1990 Memorial Cup was played at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. They played in the Finals again, but this time losing a close series 4 games to 3 with a tie, to the eventual Memorial Cup champion Niagara Falls Flyers. The team, which featured the likes of Mike Richards, Derek Roy, Gregory Campbell and David Clarkson, sputtered out of the gate with three losses and a tie in their first four games.

Kitchener earned a first round bye, then eliminated the Windsor Spitfires and Sault Ste. Kitchener won its first game of the tournament, 6-5 in overtime, vs. Gatineau, before dropping a 2-1 decision to Spokane in the second game of the round robin. Ottawa had also won its first two games. In 2014-15, the team saw a 25-point increase from the season prior, finishing 6th in the western conference with a record of 32-26-3-7 (74 points). It was a very close game throughout, with Kitchener pulling out a 5-4 victory. Honoured numbers include: The Rangers have 145 alumni who have played in the National Hockey League. Marie Greyhounds for the third consecutive year in the playoffs but this time it was the Hounds who would earn the series win, 4-2 with one tie, eliminating the Blueshirts from post-season play. In an odd coincidence, the other two opponents Kitchener would face in the Memorial Cup were the same opponents they faced the last time they played in the tournament; the QMJHL's Laval Titan (formerly Voisins) and the WHL's Kamloops Blazers (formerly Junior Oilers). The OHL All-Star Game was played there in 1980 & 1985 as well as the CHL Top Prospects Game in 2003. Coffey would play just one season on East Ave, collecting 71 points in 52 regular season games before being drafted sixth overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. The Kitchener Rangers colours have always been blue, red and white. But after such a successful regular season, things unfortunately came to a screeching halt in the first round of the playoffs, as the Owen Sound Attack (who finished 25 points behind Kitchener in the regular season), dropped the Rangers in five games in the opening round.

The Rangers won the first two playoff rounds to make it to the OHA finals, but lost 4 games to 1, to the Oshawa Generals, featuring a young Bobby Orr. Kitchener then faced the Ottawa 67's in a rematch of the 1982 OHL Finals, but this time it was the 67's who would emerge victorious, winning the series 3-0 with two ties. With the Rangers holding a 5-3 lead through 40 minutes of play, David Clarkson added another with 2:38 to play to secure the club's second Memorial Cup title, defeating Hull, 6-3. The 67's picked up a 3-2 overtime win in Game 1, but from thereon out it was all Kitchener as the Rangers won the next four games to be crowned J. Ross Robertson Cup champions for the third time in their history. The Rangers struggled their first three season in the OHA, but finished strong in 1966 despite a 7th place 16-23-9 record. The Rangers and 67's would both play in the Memorial Cup, as well as the Kamloops Junior Oilers and the Laval Voisins featuring Mario Lemieux.

Derek Roy was named the MVP of the playoffs. Kitchener picked up where it left off from the previous season, finding success while being led by top players Larry Carroll, Brian Bellows and Jeff Larmer, as well as added future NHL players Scott Stevens and Mike Hough. In 1963, George and a group of Kitchener businessmen relocated the Guelph Royals to Kitchener and renamed them the Kitchener Rangers Junior "A" Hockey Club.

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