Kitchener Rangers

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Kitchener Rangers
City	Kitchener, Ontario
League	Ontario Hockey League
Conference	Western
Division	Midwest
Founded	1963–64
Home arena	Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
Colours	Blue, red, white
General manager	Mike McKenzie
Head coach	Jussi Ahokas
Affiliate	Kitchener-Waterloo Siskins (GOJHL) Georgetown Raiders (OJHL)
Website	www.kitchenerrangers.com
Franchise history
1947–1960	Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters
1960–1963	Guelph Royals
1963–present	Kitchener Rangers
Championships
Playoff championships	Memorial Cup: 1982, 2003 OHL: 1981, 1982, 2003, 2008
Current uniform

The Kitchener Rangers are a major junior ice hockey team based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. The Rangers have won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions in 1981, 1982, 2003 and 2008. They have appeared in six Memorial Cups (1981, 1982, 1984, 1990, 2003 and 2008), advancing to the final game of the tournament each of those six years. They are two-time Memorial Cup champions (1982, 2003).

The Rangers are one of six teams in the Canadian Hockey League (Moose Jaw Warriors, Swift Current Broncos, Lethbridge Hurricanes, Peterborough Petes) that are publicly owned. Since the club's inception, a 39-person Board of Directors,^[1] including a nine-person executive committee, is elected by the team's season ticket subscribers who act as trustees of the team. This Board of Directors is also comprised entirely and only of Kitchener Rangers season ticket subscribers.

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. Five of their alumni have gone on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Scott Stevens, Bill Barber, Paul Coffey, Larry Robinson and Al MacInnis.