Trois Rivieres Lions

This article is about the defunct minor league teams from the 1950's and 1960's, for the ECHL team established in 2021, please see Trois-Rivières Lions (ECHL).



History
The Trois Rivieres Lions were a minor professional team formed in 1955 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

They became a member of the Quebec Hockey League in 1955 replacing the Valleyfield Braves who had just folded. There was a gap in the city after the Quebec Junior Hockey League folded. The Lions replaced that league's Trois Rivieres Flambeaux.

After the Quebec Hockey League folded in 1959, the Lions moved to the newly formed Eastern Professional Hockey League. After only one season, poor attendance forced a move to become the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers.

In the Quebec Hockey League, the Lions were a farm team of the Chicago Black Hawks. In the Eastern Professional Hockey League, they were sponsored by the New York Rangers.

The city had another team with the same name that played in the Eastern Townships League for the 1960-61 season