The Preston Raiders were a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 Junior "B" 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...

 team from the town of Preston, Ontario

Preston, Ontario

Preston is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Prior to its amalgamation with the city of Galt, the town of Hespeler and the village of Blair to form the new city in 1973, it was an independent town. It is located near the confluence of the Grand River and Speed River...

 which later became Cambridge

Cambridge, Ontario

Cambridge is a city located in Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is an amalgamation of the City of Galt, the towns of Preston and Hespeler, and the hamlet of Blair.Galt covers the largest portion of...

, Ontario

Ontario

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History

The team started out as the Preston Pals of the Central Junior C Hockey League

Western Junior C Hockey League

The Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League is a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The Champion of the Western will compete for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup....

. They changed their name to the Raiders in 1965.

In 1969, the Preston Raiders joined the Central Junior 'B' Hockey League. In 1974, the team left the Central league and joined the Waterloo-Wellington Junior 'B' Hockey League, which was a predecessor league to the current Midwestern Junior B Hockey League

Midwestern Junior B Hockey League

The Mid-Western Junior Hockey League was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association from 1973 until 2007. As of 2007, the league has become a division of the newly formed Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League...

. In 1976, the team became the Cambridge Raiders for one season, before folding.

Season-by-season record

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1957-58	28	3	25	0
6	7th WOJBHL
1958-59	30	7	22	1
125	191	15	5th CJBHL
1959-61	Statistics Not Available
1961-62	30	13	15	2
149	142	28	3rd CJCHL
1962-63	30	18	6	6
207	137	42	2nd CJCHL
1963-64	30	13	15	2
174	189	28	4th CJCHL
1964-65	31	16	14	1
203	194	33	5th CJCHL
1965-66	31	9	20	2
125	169	20	10th CJCHL
1966-67	24	10	9	5
94	92	25	4th WJCHL
1967-68	Statistics Not Available
1968-69	30	14	13	3
142	127	31	3rd WJCHL
1969-70	40	11	27	2
176	261	24	6th CJBHL
1970-71	42	16	23	3
183	234	35	4th CJBHL
1971-72	42	14	22	6
167	195	34	6th CJBHL
1972-73	42	14	25	3
194	234	31	6th CJBHL
1973-74	Statistics Not Available
1974-75	39	3	34	2
117	290	8	6th WWJHL
1975-76	42	16	20	6
243	256	38	5th WWJHL	Lost Quarter-final
1976-77	39	3	33	3
151	308	9	6th WWJHL	DNQ