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Kitchener Rangers
They are a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. The Rangers are a publicly owned hockey team. The Rangers will host the 2008 Memorial Cup tournament.

History
The roots of the Kitchener Rangers are traced back to the 1947-1948 hockey season when the franchise was formed as the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters. In 1960 the Biltmores as they were often called became the Guelph Royals. At the end of the 1962-63 season, a committee approached the New York Rangers about moving the team to Kitchener in hopes of building a more stable junior environment.

Memorial Cup 1981
The Rangers finished first place in a highly contested Emms division, despite winning only half its games. Kitchener caught fire in the playoffs eliminating the Niagara Falls Flyers and the Windsor Spitfires in the Emms division playoffs, then eliminated the highly favored Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the league finals, who finished 27 points ahead of Kitchener. Tessier returned to the Memorial Cup for the fourth time, after playing for the 1953 Barrie Flyers, and coaching the 1972 Cornwall Royals and 1973 Qu?bec Ramparts. Kitchener faced off against the Victoria Cougars and the defending champions, the Cornwall Royals in the Memorial Cup played in Windsor, Ontario and the Windsor Arena.

Kitchener lost the first two games 6-3 to Cornwall, and 7-4 to Victoria. The Rangers then posted consecutive victories, 6-4 over the Royals in which Bellows scored a hat trick, and 4-2 over the Cougars. In the finals versus Cornwall, the Rangers fell 5-2 to the Royals. The 1981 playoffs were a breakthrough for Kitchener.

Memorial Cup 1982
Kitchener picked up on the winning note from the previous season. The Rangers won the Emms division again with a much improved record and many players returning. Kitchener earned a first round bye, and then eliminated the Windsor Spitfires and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for the second year in a row in the Emms division playoffs. The Rangers then faced off against the Ottawa 67's coached by Brian Kilrea in the finals, winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup 9 points to 1. Kitchener faced the Portland Winter Hawks and the Sherbrooke Castors in the Memorial Cup series.

Memorial Cup 1990
The 1989-90 Rangers finished second overall in the Emms division. Kitchener earned the second round bye. The Rangers defeated the Niagara Falls Thunder team in the semi-finals, setting up a series against the Leyden division champion Oshawa Generals. Both the Rangers and the Generals were assured a spot in the Memorial Cup as OHL finalists in 1990. The tournament was originally chosen to be hosted by the Dukes of Hamilton at Copps Coliseum before the season started, but the OHL chose to send both league finalists instead. Kitchener lost in the seventh game to the Oshawa. Kitchener would face off against Oshawa in the 1990 Memorial Cup, and also rematch against their opponents in the 1984 tournament, both of who had new names, the Kamloops Junior Oilers were now the Kamloops Blazers, and the Laval Voisins were now the Laval Titan.

2002-2003 the Rangers were first place overall in the OHL, being the only team with 100 points and winning the Hamilton Spectator Trophy. Kitchener was also one of the top-ranked teams in the country. The team featured five future NHL players, forwards Mike Richards, Petr Kanko, Gregory Campbell, captain Derek Roy and defenseman Steve Eminger, who had been returned from the NHL's Washington Capitals mid-season.

The Rangers defeated S.S.Marie, Guelph and Plymouth in the western conference playoffs, then beat the Ottawa 67's in 5 games to win its third J. Ross Robertson cup, after waiting 21 years from its last. Derek Roy was named the MVP of the playoffs.

The 2003 Memorial Cup was hosted in the Quebec City at the Colis?e de Qu?bec. Kitchener faced off versus the host Qu?bec Ramparts, QMJHL champions Hull Olympiques, and the Kelowna Rockets from the WHL.