Chester Clippers Jr. Hockey Club
Encyclopedia
The Chester Clippers are an ice hockey
team based in Chester, Nova Scotia
, 45 minutes west of Halifax
, the capital of Nova Scotia
.
The team is currently in its third season in the Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League
.
The team's general manager is Jehad Assaff. The assistant general manager is Dave Muise. The Head Coach is Eddie Young. Ryan Green and Mike Bailey are the assistant coaches.
The Clippers are run by a volunteer management staff with direction from a board of directors.
On September 13, 2008, the team showed that Chester could compete at the Junior C level by playing their first ever exhibition game
and beat the Liverpool based South Shore Wild by a score of 4-3. Tyler Arsenault opened up the scoring for Chester at 4:54 in the first period, Kyle Young and Chad Jollimore scored the second and third goal respectively. Bryce Andersen netted the game-winner at 16:28 of the 3rd period. This marked the first ever franchise win for Chester.
The Chester Clippers won the 2009-2010 Ice Dogs Early Bird Pre-season Tournament with a 6-3 win over the Eastern Shore Jr. Mariners in the final game on September 27, 2009.
The Clippers continue to move in the right direction as they set many new league and franchise records in 2010-11. The Chester Clippers set new league regular season records for most goals scored (278) and least goals against (55), while setting a new franchise record for most wins in a season with 28.
Clippers forward Justin Norris broke the league's scoring record by reaching 119 points in 29 games. While, defenseman Jordan Kenny set a new league record for points by a defender with 59 pts in 25 games. Justin Norris was selected as the Nova Scotia Jr. C Hockey League's Most Valuable Player in both the regular season and playoffs. Goaltender Alex Mader won the statistical award for Top Goals-against-average (GAA), posting a league-best 1.93 GAA during the regular season.
The Clippers will return to the Central Division in 2011-12, with Oxford, Fundy and Spryfield. The league will have a balanced, 28-game schedule, however the teams will play within their division in playoffs.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
team based in Chester, Nova Scotia
Chester, Nova Scotia
Chester is an incorporated Canadian village located in and part of Nova Scotia's Chester Municipal District in the southeastern part of Lunenburg County.-History:...
, 45 minutes west of Halifax
City of Halifax
Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...
, the capital of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
.
The team is currently in its third season in the Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League
Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League
The Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League is a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Nova Scotia, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The winner of the playoffs competes in the Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships. The league plays 2, 15 minutes periods, and then the traditional 20 minutes in the...
.
The team's general manager is Jehad Assaff. The assistant general manager is Dave Muise. The Head Coach is Eddie Young. Ryan Green and Mike Bailey are the assistant coaches.
The Clippers are run by a volunteer management staff with direction from a board of directors.
On September 13, 2008, the team showed that Chester could compete at the Junior C level by playing their first ever exhibition game
Exhibition game
An exhibition game is a sporting event in which there is no competitive value of any significant kind to any competitor regardless of the outcome of the competition...
and beat the Liverpool based South Shore Wild by a score of 4-3. Tyler Arsenault opened up the scoring for Chester at 4:54 in the first period, Kyle Young and Chad Jollimore scored the second and third goal respectively. Bryce Andersen netted the game-winner at 16:28 of the 3rd period. This marked the first ever franchise win for Chester.
The Chester Clippers won the 2009-2010 Ice Dogs Early Bird Pre-season Tournament with a 6-3 win over the Eastern Shore Jr. Mariners in the final game on September 27, 2009.
The Clippers continue to move in the right direction as they set many new league and franchise records in 2010-11. The Chester Clippers set new league regular season records for most goals scored (278) and least goals against (55), while setting a new franchise record for most wins in a season with 28.
Clippers forward Justin Norris broke the league's scoring record by reaching 119 points in 29 games. While, defenseman Jordan Kenny set a new league record for points by a defender with 59 pts in 25 games. Justin Norris was selected as the Nova Scotia Jr. C Hockey League's Most Valuable Player in both the regular season and playoffs. Goaltender Alex Mader won the statistical award for Top Goals-against-average (GAA), posting a league-best 1.93 GAA during the regular season.
The Clippers will return to the Central Division in 2011-12, with Oxford, Fundy and Spryfield. The league will have a balanced, 28-game schedule, however the teams will play within their division in playoffs.
Yearly results
Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Games | Won | Lost | Tied | OTL | SL | Points | Pct % | Goals for |
Goals against |
Standing | Playoffs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–09 | 30 | 7 | 22 | |||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 15 | 0.250 | 94 | 212 | 5th in Central | Did not qualify | |||||
| 2009–10 | 28 | 22 | 6 | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.786 | 166 | 79 | 2nd in Central | Lost Semi-final | |||||
| 2010–11 | 30 | 28 | 2 | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 56 | 0.933 | 278 | 55 | 1st in West, 1st Overall | Lost Final | |||||
| 2011–12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 24 | 1.000 | 123 | 11 | 1st in Central | N/A |