From Daniel Fink's Blog, the Yorkton Terrier name has been associated with hockey in Yorkton for much of the 20th century. Before that, the senior Terriers played great hockey in the days when the best senior team in Canada would often represent the country in the Olympics, and when the players were often former NHLers who had completed their careers in the tough six-team pro league. In the winter of 1972, the senior Prairie Hockey League was on its last legs, and that became the catalyst for the birth of the Yorkton Terrier Junior A team.Because the PHL was on the verge of folding, the executive of the Yorkton Terrier senior organization changed its name to the Yorkton Terrier Hockey Club paving the way for adding the word ''Junior''. The annual meeting in the summer of 1972 agreed to send an application to the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey League for membership in the 1972-1973 season. more... See more text