Founded in 1985, the Hawks won their first league championship in 1990 against the
Humboldt Broncos. The team went on to win the regional championship
ANAVET Cup, defeating the
Portage Terriers of the
Manitoba Junior Hockey League four games to two. The Hawks then went on to take third place at the national championship
Centennial Cup tournament in
Vernon, British Columbia. The next time the Hawks won a league championship was in
2018. The victory was overshadowed by the
Humboldt Broncos bus crash in which 16 members of the
Humboldt Broncos were killed and 13 were injured. The crash happened as the Broncos were en route to
Nipawin to play game 5 of the semifinal against the Hawks. Source: ==NHL alumni==