Notre Dame Hounds

The Notre Dame Hounds are a Canadian Junior A ice hockey team based in Wilcox, Saskatchewan.

The Hounds are members of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and play their homes games in Duncan McNeill Arena.

[1][2] Murray was assigned to Wilcox in 1933 and began teaching at St. Augustine School, which had been established in 1920 by the Sisters of Charity of St. Louis, where he would found the College of Notre Dame in 1933.

[5] The team returned to the final in 1984, and won the tournament for a second time in 1986, defeating the Toronto Red Wings by a score of 8–5.

[8] Despite losing the final, the organization decided to move up a level, returning to Junior A hockey, and the Hounds were promoted back to the SJHL in 1987.

[16] Coached by Barry MacKenzie and boasting future National Hockey League (NHL) stars Rod Brind'Amour and Curtis Joseph, the team won 53 out of 60 games and defeated the Yorkton Terriers for the SJHL title.

[9] The team then swept the Winnipeg South Blues for the right to contest the Western Canadian Abbott Cup title, in which they faced the Calgary Canucks.

[19] The Hounds have been noted for producing a large number of NHL alumni over many decades, such as Brind'Amour, Joseph, Wendel Clark, Vincent Lecavalier, and Morgan Rielly.

[8] Since 2021, the Hounds organization has been the subject of allegations of physical and sexual abuse by players who attended Notre Dame College and played hockey there in the 1980s.

Black and white photo of man wearing a black robe and white priest's collar
Athol Murray c. 1930 .