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The Kootenay Ice (officially stylized as ICE) were a Canadian major junior ice hockey team based in Cranbrook, British Columbia, competing in the Western Hockey League (WHL) and playing its home games at Western Financial Place. The franchise, which began as the Edmonton Ice before moving to Cranbrook in 1998, was owned by Ed Chynoweth from 1995 until it was sold to Winnipeg-based company 50 Below Sports and Entertainment in 2017. The team won three WHL championships and one Memorial Cup title as Canadian junior champions. Despite the club's on-ice success, the Ice moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 2019, where they were known as the Winnipeg Ice.
The Kootenay Ice found significant on-ice success in their early years. The team won WHL championships in 2000 and 2002, along with the Memorial Cup in 2002 to become Canadian junior champions. The 2002 Ice team was inducted into the BC Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022. The Ice added a regular season title in 2004–05 and a third playoff championship in 2011. The latter title came under the direction of Jeff Chynoweth after Ed Chynoweth died in 2008.
In 2017, the Chynoweth family sold the team to Winnipeg-based 50 Below Sports + Entertainment Inc. The company's owners, Greg Fettes and Matt Cockell, were installed as the team's governor and president, respectively. A new logo was unveiled on May 1, 2017. The team's on-ice success diminished after their third championship, with the Ice winning only one playoff series after 2011 and missing the playoffs altogether for four straight seasons between 2015 and 2019. Operating in the league's second-smallest market, attendance became an issue and the league raised questions about the team's long-term viability in Cranbrook.
On January 29, 2019, the Ice announced that the team would relocate to Winnipeg after the 2018–19 season. The Winnipeg Ice began play in the 2019–20 season. In June 2023, after ownership failed to build a suitable arena in Winnipeg, the team was again sold and relocated to Wenatchee, Washington, where they became the Wenatchee Wild.
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| Won Championship |
| Lost Eastern Conference semifinal |
| Won Championship Won Memorial Cup |
| Lost Western Conference semifinal |
| Lost Western Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Western Conference final |
| Lost Western Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference semifinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Won Championship |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference semifinal |
| Lost Eastern Conference quarterfinal |
| Did not qualify |
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