Championship Vernon Vipers team headed to the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame

Almost 17 years after they won a national title, the 1998-1999 Vernon Vipers are being inducted into the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame. In the championship game at the RBC Cup that year they beat Charlottetown 9-3. However, the team’s long time owner, Duncan Wray, thinks it was the Vipers’ regular season record that year that really set them apart.

“The fact that they only lost six games all season, out of a 60 game schedule, was a pretty telling fact,” says Wray.

“There was a group of kids that really knew what they wanted to do. They set out with that goal in mind and they fought all the way through to do it.”

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Wray says news of the planned hall of fame induction has spread on social media.

The South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton is set to host the induction ceremony in July.