Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League
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The Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League is a Junior "C" ice hockey
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...
league in Ontario
Ontario
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, Canada
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, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association
Ontario Hockey Association
The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...
. The Champion of the Niagara will compete for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup
Clarence Schmalz Cup
The Clarence Schmalz Cup is the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior "C" ice hockey championship and championship trophy. The tournament to determine the winner of the Cup is commonly called the All-Ontario Championships...
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- For the Ontario Hockey Association "All-Ontario Jr. "C" Championship", please go to the Clarence Schmalz CupClarence Schmalz CupThe Clarence Schmalz Cup is the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior "C" ice hockey championship and championship trophy. The tournament to determine the winner of the Cup is commonly called the All-Ontario Championships...
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History
The Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League was formed in 1974. Although corresponding with the founding of the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League, the Niagara District league was actually founded by removing the Niagara-area teams from the Central Junior C Hockey League and placing them in the new Niagara District league. The Central league is now known as the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League.In 1984, the entire Western Division of the league broke away and formed the Southwestern Junior C Hockey League. The league only last one year before it was reabsorbed by the Niagara & District League. The Southwestern league comprised teams from Norwich, Woodstock, Tillsonburg, Simcoe, and New Hamburg. Local publications, like the Simcoe Reformer, did not recognize the Southwestern League as anything but the Western Division of the Niagara District league.
Changes For 2008-2009
The Niagara Junior Hockey League will look and feel a little different when the puck drops on the 2008-09 hockey season. The most noticeable change will be that the players will be allowed to wear half visors for the first time. This will strictly be a player decision. Full facial protection is of course still allowed and encouraged in most circles. Neck guards are now mandatory for all players. Also new for the 2008-09 hockey season will be a shootout to decide tie games. This will occur after the regular overtime period if no winner has been determined. Playoff format will remain the same in the 2008-09 season with all teams making the playoffs. First and Second place teams will have the option this season of taking a bye or playing in the first round.The teams
| East Division | ||||||||||
| Team | Centre | Founded | ||||||||
| Caledonia Corvairs Caledonia Corvairs The Caledonia Corvairs are a Canadian junior hockey team based in Caledonia, Ontario, Canada. They are playing in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-History:... |
Caledonia Caledonia, Ontario Caledonia is a small riverside community and former town located on the Grand River in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. Haldimand County is in the western part of the Niagara Peninsula, and had a population of 43,280 in 2001. The current mayor of Haldimand County is Ken Hewitt; Caledonia is... |
1961 | ||||||||
| Chippawa Riverhawks Chippawa Riverhawks The Chippawa Riverhawks are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Chippawa, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-Season-by-season record:... |
Chippawa Chippawa, Ontario Chippawa is a community located within the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario.The village was founded in 1850, and became part of the City of Niagara Falls, Ontario by amalgamation in 1970. It is located on the Canadian shore of the Niagara River about 2 km upstream from Niagara Falls. It is... |
1987 | ||||||||
| Dundas Blues Dundas Blues The Dundas Blues are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Eastern Division of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.-History:... |
Dundas Dundas, Ontario Dundas is a formerly independent town and now constituent community in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. It's nickname is the Valley Town. The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley... |
1963 | ||||||||
| Dunnville Jr. Mudcats | Dunnville Dunnville, Ontario Dunnville is an unincorporated community of 6,000 people located near the mouth of the Grand River in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada, near the historic Talbot Trail... |
1974 | ||||||||
| Glanbrook Rangers Glanbrook Rangers The Glanbrook Rangers are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Glanbrook, Ontario, Canada. They are playing in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-History:... |
Glanbrook | 1975 | ||||||||
| Grimsby Peach Kings Grimsby Peach Kings The Grimsby Peach Kings are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team from Grimsby, Ontario. They play out of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League... |
Grimsby Grimsby, Ontario Grimsby is a town on Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. Grimsby is a part of the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area. The majority of residents reside in the area bounded by Lake Ontario and the Niagara escarpment... |
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| West Division | ||||||||||
| Team | Centre | Founded | ||||||||
| Aylmer Spitfires Aylmer Spitfires The Aylmer Spitfires are a Canadian junior hockey team based in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada. They are playing in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-History:... |
Aylmer Aylmer, Ontario Aylmer is a town in Elgin County in southern Ontario, Canada, just north of Lake Erie, on Catfish Creek. It is 20 km south of Highway 401... |
1974 | ||||||||
| New Hamburg Firebirds New Hamburg Firebirds The New Hamburg Firebirds are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Western Division of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.-History:... |
New Hamburg New Hamburg, Ontario New Hamburg is a community of approximately 8,739 in Wilmot Township, a rural township of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario... |
1953 | ||||||||
| Norwich Merchants Norwich Merchants The Norwich Merchants are a Canadian junior hockey team based in Norwich, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Western Division of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.-Season-by-Season record:... |
Norwich Norwich, Ontario The Township of Norwich is a municipality located in Oxford County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Preferred pronunciation of the town name is 'NOR-witch' , different from the city of Norwich, England, though its origin is more likely Norwich in Upper New York State, the area from which the... |
1968 | ||||||||
| Paris Mounties Paris Mounties The Paris Mounties are a Canadian junior hockey team based in Paris, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Western Division of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.-Season-by-Season record:... |
Paris Paris, Ontario Paris, Ontario is a community on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The town was established in 1850. In 1999, its town government was amalgamated into that of the County of Brant, Ontario, thus ending about 149 years as a separate incorporated municipality.-History:The town was first settled in... |
1985 | ||||||||
| Simcoe Storm Simcoe Storm The Simcoe Storm are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League, a league governed by the Ontario Hockey Association, Ontario Hockey Federation, and Hockey Canada... |
Simcoe Simcoe, Ontario Simcoe is an unincorporated community and former town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada located near Lake Erie. It is the county seat and largest community of Norfolk County.... |
1959 | ||||||||
| Woodstock Navy-Vets | Woodstock Woodstock, Ontario Woodstock is a city and the county seat of Oxford County in Southern Ontario, Canada. Woodstock is located 128 km southwest of Toronto, north of Highway 401 along the historic Thames River... |
1966 | ||||||||
Playdowns
Preliminary Round
The East Division played a pair of Preliminary rounds, giving last chance opportunities to low seeded teams.Chippawa
Chippawa Riverhawks
The Chippawa Riverhawks are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Chippawa, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-Season-by-season record:...
defeated (4) Glanbrook
Glanbrook Rangers
The Glanbrook Rangers are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Glanbrook, Ontario, Canada. They are playing in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-History:...
4-games-to-2
Dundas
Dundas Blues
The Dundas Blues are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Eastern Division of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.-History:...
defeated (6) Dunnville
Dunnville Terriers
The Dunnville Jr. Mudcats are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada. They are playing in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.-History:...
4-game-to-none
Niagara Junior "C" champions
- 2010 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2009 Norwich Merchants
- 2008 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2007 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2006 Simcoe Storm
- 2005 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2004 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2003 Grimsby Peach Kings
- 2002 Woodstock Navy-Vets
- 2001 Chippawa Riverhawks
- 2000 Chippawa Riverhawks
- 1999 Glanbrook Rangers
- 1998 Glanbrook Rangers
- 1997 Glanbrook Rangers
- 1996 Paris Mounties
- 1995 Woodstock Navy-Vets
- 1994 Rockton Real McCoys
- 1993 Dundas Blues
- 1992 Dundas Blues
- 1991 New Hamburg Spirit 83's
- 1990 New Hamburg Spirit 83's
- 1989 Caledonia Corvairs**
- 1988 Stoney Creek Warriors
- 1987 Norwich Merchants
- 1986 Norwich Merchants
- 1985 Stoney Creek Warriors
- 1984 Woodstock Navy-Vets
- 1983 Dunnville Terriers
- 1982 Flamborough Colts
- 1981 Woodstock Navy-Vets
- 1980 Flamborough Colts
- 1979 Stoney Creek Warriors
- 1978 Flamborough Sabres
- 1977 Stoney Creek Warriors
- 1976 Dunnville Terriers
- 1975 Dunnville Terriers
(**) Won by default, no opponent in final