Wheat Kings sale finalized, approved by WHL governors
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This article was published 07/09/2020 (2053 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Brandon Wheat Kings have been sold, a deal that could be announced today.
A Western Hockey League source told The Brandon Sun over the weekend that a Brandon buyer has purchased the club from its longtime owner, Kelly McCrimmon. The deal has been officially approved by the league’s board of governors.
McCrimmon, 59, purchased one-third of the Wheat Kings franchise in June 1993 from Bob Cornell, and the other two-thirds in June 2001, and is the longest-serving owner since the club joined the league in the 1967-68 season.
The club’s roots go back to the 1930s. It joined the Western Canadian Junior Hockey League, which later became the WHL, for the 1967-68 season.
McCrimmon played with the club for two seasons from 1978 to 1980, winning a WHL title during the 1978-79 season on one of the greatest teams in league history. He completed a rare trifecta when he also earned WHL titles in 1996 as a general manager and 2016 as a head coach and general manager.
After winning the 2016 WHL championship, McCrimmon left his full-time role with the Wheat Kings that summer to join the National Hockey League’s Vegas Golden Knights, but retained ownership of the WHL team.
Since joining the Golden Knights, he has been promoted from assistant general manager to general manager.
He originally joined the Wheat Kings hockey staff for the 1988-89 season as an assistant coach and marketing-sales manager for the Keystone Centre, and took over as general manager later that season.
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