Drumheller Miners
Order vintage Drumheller Miners tees, long sleeves, hoodies, crewnecks and more. All five Bentley brothers played for the original Miners, and the second version of the club won the Allan Cup in 1966 before a stormy trip to Sweden for the 1967 Ahearne Cup. Celebrate one of Alberta's great senior hockey towns by browsing all of our Miners gear, then read the team history below. We are a small business based in the United States, dedicated to reviving the logos and memories of hockey teams that are gone but not forgotten.
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Drumheller Miners History
The Drumheller Miners were first established in 1933, spending time in both the Southern Alberta Hockey League and the Alberta Senior Hockey League. The most notable storyline coming from that original incarnation is that the five Bentley brothers (Doug, Max, Reg, Roy and Wyatt) played for the team. Doug, Max and Reg all went on to play in the NHL, with Doug and Max being elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The second incarnation of the team started play in 1961, once again spending time in the Alberta Senior Hockey League and the Central Alberta Hockey League. While they folded in 1978, the franchise were part of an interesting storyline, as after they won the Allan Cup in 1966, the Miners were chose to represent Canada at the Ahearne Cup in 1967, in Sweden. Drumheller ended up last in the tournament. Art Potter, the president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association at the time, had accompanied the team on their trip. He felt that the officiating was terrible and that the tournament organizers were deliberately trying to prevent the Miners from winning. He authorized the players to withdraw from their final game in the last few minutes, with the players declining. Things got so bad in that final game against the Swedes (a 3 โ 1 loss), that an on-ice brawl nearly broke out. Labelled โmaniacsโ by the Swedish press, reportedly for physical play, the players from the Miners all vowed to never set foot on Swedish ice again. Amusingly, the Soviet media agreed with Potterโs assessment, indicating that the referee was acknowledged as being fair under normal circumstances, but seemed to lean heavily toward the home side when he was involved in international games.
