Portland Winterhawks

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«The Hawks»

457 Matches

262 wins

195 losses

1765–1547 Goals

+218 Difference

3.9 Scored per game

Form W L L W L W

That move made the club the first American team in what soon became the Western Hockey League, and it explains why the Winterhawks count seasons back to 1950 despite having played in Oregon for only half that span. The team wore the name Portland Winter Hawks, two words, until a 2009 rebrand tightened it into one.

Cam Neely came through the same pipeline a generation later, and his number 21 hangs from the rafters at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the building the club has called home through nearly all of that history — apart from a stretch between 1995 and 2021 when bigger nights were shifted across town to the Moda Center. Seth Jones, Marian Hossa and Brenden Morrow also passed through on their way to the NHL.

Three WHL titles mark the club's peaks — 1982, 1998 and 2013 — and the 1998 run went further, closing with a Memorial Cup win over the Guelph Storm settled in overtime. The 1983 Memorial Cup, an 8–3 defeat of the Oshawa Generals, sits alongside it as the other national championship on the shelf. Seattle has long been the team Portland measures itself against, a short trip up Interstate 5 that gets its own name, the I-5 Rivalry, on nights when neither side gives much away.

New ownership tore up the look in 2021, dropping the old Blackhawks-style crest.

Fixtures and results

15 Oct	WHL	Penticton Vees A	2:0	W
12 Oct	WHL	Kamloops Blazers A	2:3	L
10 Oct	WHL	Wenatchee Wild H	4:1	W
4 Oct	WHL	Spokane Chiefs H	1:3	L
3 Oct	WHL	Spokane Chiefs H	1:6	L
27 Sep	WHL	Kamloops Blazers H	5:3	W

Spokane Chiefs

Tri-City Americans

Portland Winterhawks

Everett Silvertips

Wenatchee Wild

Seattle Thunderbirds

WHL

Group stage · U.S. Division