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This was the 1963-64 season of the Alberta Big Six League:

Standings[]

Northern Division GP W L T GF GA Pts
Okotoks Oilers 36 21 12 3 - - 45
Calgary Canadians 36 18 14 4 - - 40
Calgary Cowboys (AJHL) 36 14 19 3 - - 31
Calgary CPR Beavers 36 12 20 4 - - 28


Southern Division GP W L T GF GA Pts
Medicine Hat Cantalinis 36 27 4 5 - - 59
Taber Chefs 36 15 14 7 - - 37
Lethbridge Sugar Kings 36 4 28 4 - - 12


Note: The Lethbridge Sugar Kings and the Calgary Cowboys played a playoff series in the 1963-64 Alberta Junior Playoffs. The games in this series also counted in the Big Six League season.


Playoffs[]

The league playoffs were going to take too long to allow the winner to be able to play in the 1963-64 Alberta Intermediate Playoffs. Therefore a special playoff was held between the division leaders to determine the league representative in the Alberta playoffs.

Special Playoff[]

Best of 3

Date Winner Loser Location
March 10 Medicine Hat 9 Okotoks 2 Medicine Hat
March 15 Medicine Hat 5 Okotoks 4 Okotoks

Medicine Hat Cantalinis beat Okotoks Oilers 2 wins to none.

Medicine Hat Cantalinis advanced to the 1963-64 Alberta Intermediate Playoffs.

Both teams then entered the league playoffs.

Quarter Final[]

Best of 5

Date Winner Loser Location
March 12 Canadians 6 Cowboys 2 Okotoks
March 14 Canadians 9 Cowboys 2 Okotoks
March 16 Cowboys 9 Canadians 6 Calgary
March 18 Canadians 6 Cowboys 4 Calgary

Calgary Canadians beat Calgary Cowboys 3 wins to 1,

Semi Finals[]

Best of 5

Date Winner Loser Location
March 22 Okotoks 8 Calgary 5 Calgary
March 24 Calgary 8 Okotoks 3 Okotoks
March 26 Okotoks 9 Calgary 5 Okotoks
March 29 Okotoks 5 Calgary 4 Okotoks

Okotoks Oilers beat Calgary Canadians 3 wins to 1.

Best of 7

Medicine Hat Cantalinis beat Taber Chefs 4 wins to 2.

Final[]

Best of 5

Date Winner Loser Location
April 1 Okotoks 6 Medicine Hat 3 Medicine Hat
April 4 Okotoks 6 Medicine Hat 4 Medicine Hat
April 12 Medicine Hat 12 Okotoks 8 Medicine Hat
April 13 Medicine Hat 9 Okotoks 7 Medicine Hat
April 19 Medicine Hat 7 Okotoks 2 Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat Cantalinis beat Okotoks Oilers 3 wins to 2.

An electricity problem prevented any games from being played at Okotoks. This was also the reason the series was shortened from best-of-7 to best-of-5.

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