Surrey Knights

Surrey Knights
City	Surrey, British Columbia
League	Pacific Junior Hockey League
Conference	Harold Brittain
Founded	1999 (1999)–00
Home arena	North Surrey Sport and Ice Complex
Colors	Green, Black and Gold
Owner(s)	John Craighead
General manager	Amar Gill (2016-17)
Head coach	Spencer Mchaffie(2016-17)
Website langleyknights.ca
Franchise history
1999-2002	Queen's Park Pirates
2002-2005	North Delta Flyers
2005-2014	North Delta Devils
2014-2016	Langley Knights
2016-Present	Surrey Knights

The Surrey Knights are a Junior "B" ice hockey team based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Harold Brittain Conference of the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL). The Knights play their home games at the North Surrey Recreation Centre.

History

logo as Langley Knights 2014-2016

The team was founded in 1999 in New Westminster as the Queen's Park Pirates, where they played their home games at the historic Queen's Park Arena until they relocating to the Sungod Arena in North Delta for the 2002–03 season, moving to North Delta, dropping the Pirates name and changing it to Flyers, to become the North Delta Flyers. The Flyers played three seasons before changing their name to Devils in 2005. The North Delta Devils relocated to the George Preston Recreation Centre in 2014, moved to Langley, dropped the Devils name and changed it to Knights, becoming the Langley Knights. On June 2, 2016, The PJHL announced the relocation of the Langley Knights to the city of Surrey in time for the 2016–17 season. This relocation happened because the Vancouver Giants relocated from the Pacific Coliseum to the Langley Events Centre, forcing the BCHL's Langley Rivermen out of their old home. They had to go to the George Preston Centre, which also forced the Knights out of Langley and into Surrey, to become the Surrey Knights.

In 2016–17, the Knights' first season in their new location, the Knights did not win a single game all season in the PJHL. The Knights' last win in the PJHL was Thursday, November 19, 2015, 3–2 win vs Abbotsford Pilots. a span of 89 games.

After a two-year winless streak, the Junior B Surrey Knights bagged a 2–0 win Friday, November 24, 2017 against the Abbotsford Pilots. Goalie Zakary Babin stood on his head, stopping 49 Abbotsford shots to get the shutout. The Knights mustered just 12 shots the other way. It would be the only win for Surrey Knights for 2017–18.

For the 2018–2019 season, The Surrey Knights would win its first 2 games. The first win came of the year on Thursday vs. expansion White Rock Whalers with a 6–5 victory on December 6, 2018. Naveen Kainth faced 59 shots, earning first star of the game. The 2nd win of the year, came on Thursday, January 24, 2019, with a 6–2 victory over the Mission City Outlaws. Naveen Kainth would face 50/52 shots and earn 1st, star of the game. It would mark the last win of the season for Knights only getting 2 wins in the 2018–19 season.

The 2019-2020, Surrey Knights moved to a new home at the North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex. They would go on to have another unsuccessful Season. Which would miss playoffs once again. But, would win only 1 regular Season game Which came on Thursday December 19/2019 V.S. Grandview Steelers with 4-1 Win.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OT = Overtime Losses, Shootout losses & Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	OT	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Playoffs
Queen's Park Pirates
1999-00	42	5	34	3	13	144	241	7th, PIJHL	Did not qualify
2000-01	42	12	27	3	27	142	232	6th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 2–3 (Ice Hawks)
2001-02	42	14	27	1	29	164	242	6th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 1-3 (Buckaroos)
North Delta Flyers
2003-04	42	23	16	3	49	136	142	4th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Buckaroos)
2004-05	48	22	21	5	49	188	188	6th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 3–4 (Steelers)
North Delta Devils
2005-06	48	32	13	3	67	187	136	3rd, PIJHL	Lost in Semifinals, 0–4 (Pilots)
2006-07	48	23	23	2	48	175	190	6th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Flames)
2007-08	48	18	17	3	39	189	240	6th, PIJHL	Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 (Steelers)
2008-09	48	32	15	1	65	202	140	2nd, Shaw	Won Div. SemiFinal, 4–0 Steelers) (Lost Div. Finals, 0-4 (Sockeyes)
2009-10	48	36	7	5	77	220	122	1st, Shaw	Lost Div. Semifinals, 3–4 (Ice Hawks)
2010-11	46	24	17	5	53	164	165	4th, Shaw	Lost Div. Semifinals, 0–4 (Sockeyes)
2011-12	44	26	14	4	56	150	143	2nd, Shaw	Lost in Div. SemiFinals, 3–4 (Ice Hawks)
2012-13	44	21	18	5	47	133	143	4th, Shaw	Lost in Conference Semifinals, 0–4 (Sockeyes)
2013-14	44	10	31	3	23	110	214	5th, Shaw	Did not qualify
Langley Knights
2014-15	44	23	19	1	48	130	174	2nd, Harold Britain	Lost in Div. SemiFinals, 2–4 (Outlaws)
2015-16	44	4	38	2	10	98	281	5th, Harold Britain	Did Not Qualify
Surrey Knights
2016-17	44	0	41	3	3	66	293	5th, Harold Britain	Did Not Qualify
2017-18	44	1	42	1	3	71	311	6 of 6, Harold Britain	Did Not Qualify
2018-19	44	2	41	1	5	78	344	6 of 6, Harold Britain 12th of 12 PJHL	Did Not Qualify
2019-20	44	1	39	4	6	77	265	6 of 6, Harold Britain 12th of 12 PJHL	Did Not Qualify
2020-21	Season Lost to Covid 19 pandemic
2021-22	44	4	39	1	9	90	254	7 of 7, Harold Britain 12th of 13 PJHL	Did Not Qualify
2022-23	48	12	32	4	28	127	232	5th of 7, Harold Britain 11th of 13 PJHL	Lost First Round

NHL alumni

• Colton Gillies
• Ben Maxwell
• John Negrin

External links

• Official website of the Surrey Knights
• Official website of the Pacific Junior Hockey League