The Simpson Flyers were a senior hockey team based in
Simpson, Saskatchewan
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. The Simpson Flyers played in the Long Lake Hockey League until the 1997/1998 season when the team combined with the Imperial Sabres to form the Long Lake Lightning. The Long Lake Lightning organization has since ceased operations, although the combined minor hockey teams of Simpson and
Imperial
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Places
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still use the ''Long Lake Lightning'' name.
Championships
The Simpson Flyers won the
Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association
Saskatchewan ( , ) is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dako ...
D Provincial Championship seven times including five years in a row (1967, 1969 to 1973, and 1981). The Flyers also won one Long Lake Hockey League Championship, in 1980.
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Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan