Brandon Wheat Kings

Brandon Wheat Kings
City	Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
League	Western Hockey League
Conference	Eastern
Division	East
Founded	1936 (1936)
Home arena	Westoba Place
Colours	Gold, black, white
General manager	Marty Murray[1]
Head coach	Marty Murray
Website	chl.ca/whl-wheatkings
Franchise history
1936–1938	Brandon Wheat Kings (MJHL)
1938–1940	Brandon Elks (MJHL)
1940–1967	Brandon Wheat Kings (MJHL)
1967–present	Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL)
Championships
Regular season titles	5 (1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1995–96, 2014–15)
Playoff championships	Ed Chynoweth Cup 3 (1979, 1996, 2016) Conference Championships 5 (1995–96, 1997–98, 2004–05, 2014–15, 2015–16)

The Brandon Wheat Kings are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Brandon, Manitoba. Founded in 1936, the team was for three decades a successful junior team playing principally in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League. The Wheat Kings joined the Western Hockey League ahead of the 1967–68 season, and today play in the East Division of the Eastern Conference, hosting games at Keystone Centre. The team owns the best regular season record in WHL history from the 1978–79 season, when the Wheat Kings posted 58 wins and 125 points. That season, they won their first of three league championships.