The Lloydminster Bobcats are a Canadian junior A ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL). They play home games in the Lloydminster Centennial Civic Centre on the Saskatchewan side of the biprovincial city of Lloydminster, which straddles that province's border with Alberta. History The Bobcats were preceded by the Lloydminster Blazers from 1988 to 2005 and the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Lloydminster Lancers from 1982 until 1988. The Bobcats hosted the 2016 Royal Bank Cup tournament for the Junior A national championship. Season-by-season record Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T/OTL = Ties/Overtime losses, SOL = Shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Junior A National Championship The National Junior A Championship, known as the Centennial Cup and formerly as the Royal Bank Cup or RBC Cup, is the postseason tournament for the Canadian national championship for Junior A hockey teams that are members of the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The tournament consists of the regional Junior A champions and a previously selected host team. Since 1990, the national championship has used a five-team tournament format when the regional qualifiers were designated as the ANAVET Cup (Western), Doyle Cup (Pacific), Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), and Fred Page Cup (Eastern). From 2013 to 2017, the qualifiers were the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central), Fred Page Cup (Eastern), and the Western Canada Cup champions and runners-up (Western #1 and #2). The tournament begins with round-robin play between the five teams followed by the top four teams playing a semifinal game, with the top seed facing the fourth seed and the second facing the third. The winners of the semifinals then face each other in final game for the national championship. In some years, the losers of the semifinal games face each other for a third place game. NHL alumni The following former Blazers or Bobcats have gone on to play in the NHL: Scott Bailey David Dziurzynski Scott Hartnell Wade Redden Mike Siklenka See also List of ice hockey teams in Alberta List of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan Lloydminster Border Kings References External links Lloydminster Bobcats website Alberta Junior Hockey League website Alberta Junior Hockey League teams Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan Sport in Lloydminster Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League teams Ice hockey clubs established in 1982 1982 establishments in Saskatchewan