Lethbridge floundered at or near the bottom of the conference for several years, however, the team finally began to show signs of life in the early 90s.
The team brought in a young coach named Mike Babcock whose most recent experience had been getting fired after an unsuccessful two-year stint with the Moose Jaw Warriors.
In their debut, the team was set against defending national champion Acadia and starting netminder Trevor Kruger had one of his worse performances of the season.
Babcock was back in the Western Hockey League the following year and Lethbridge was forced to figure out how to build on their unexpected title without him.
[6] After the end of the succeeding season, the university announced that, due to funding cuts from the provincial government, both the men's and women's ice hockey teams would be eliminated.