Description The Nipawin Hawks are a junior ice hockey team based in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. They are members of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL). They play their home games at the Centennial Arena, which has a seating capacity of 1,500. The team colors are black and gold.
The Hawks won league championships in 1990 and 2018, and the regional championship ANAVET Cup in 1990, coached by Bob Lowes.
Founded in 1985, the Hawks won their first league championship in 1990 against the Humboldt Broncos. The team went on to win the regional championship ANAVET Cup, defeating the Portage Terriers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League four games to two. The Hawks then went on to take third place at the national championship Centennial Cup tournament in Vernon, British Columbia.
The next time the Hawks won a league championship was in 2018. The victory was overshadowed by the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in which 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos were killed and 13 were injured. The crash happened as the Broncos were en route to Nipawin to play game 5 of the semifinal against the Hawks.