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OWEN SOUND ATTACK
2000-PRESENT formerly: Owen Sound Platers 1989-2000 Guelph Platers 1982-89 The franchise got its start in Guelph, but the team really took root in the community upon moving to Owen Sound in 1989. The club has never had an alumnus go on make the Hall of Fame, but the team has stayed consistently competitive, making it to the post-season in 21 of their 26 seasons in Owen Sound. FRANCHISE DEFINING MOMENTS Memorial Cup champs, 1985-86 It didn’t take long for the Guelph Platers to make their mark. The club entered the OHL in 1982, and by 1985-86 they had won the league title and were on top of major junior as Memorial Cup champions. Coach Jacques Martin was the mastermind. Community keeps the team, 2000 The Holody family wanted to sell the Platers. A group from Cornwall, Ont.,…
GUELPH STORM
1991-PRESENT FORMERLY: TORONTO MARLBOROS 1963-89 HAMILTON DUKES 1989-91 THE STORM’S INAUGURAL year, 1991-92, was abysmal: they won only four of 66 games and finished last. But it took just four seasons for Guelph to turn it around. By 1994-95, it was atop the Central Division and by 1997-98, it won the OHL title. The span from birth to first was much shorter for the Storm than it was for the former OHA Toronto Marlboros, which joined the junior ranks in 1946 but didn’t win a title until 1972-73. FRANCHISE DEFINING MOMENTS First Robertson Cup victory, 1997-98 Led by Brian Willsie and Manny Malhotra, the Storm barrelled their way through the OHL post-season en route to their first OHL title. Guelph dropped only one game the entire playoffs, losing 8-1 to the Ottawa 67’s in the…
A TALE OF TWO CAREERS
It was only Dan Bouchard’s fourth game as a pro when he spotted him, Frank Mahovlich, the ‘Big M’ himself, flying in down the wing. Bouchard crouched back in net. He had been a goalie all his life, but on this night, Oct. 12, 1972, inside the old Montreal Forum, that didn’t stack up to much. He was still just 21, a kid tasked with anchoring the brand new Atlanta Flames, and hockey royalty was coming at him. Fast. The game meant plenty to Bouchard. Although he was born in Val-d’Or, Que., he had grown up in Montreal, and now he was faced with trying to stop none other than one of the Canadiens’ greatest scorers. He narrowed his eyes as Mahovlich skated to the top of the circle, reared back and…
ACROSS THE ATLANT IC 10 EURO ALL-STARS
Sifting through 60 major junior teams and 48 NCAA teams produced some eye-popping all-star squads for Dream Teams, full of celebrated NHLers. And yet, a shadow loomed large across the Atlantic Ocean in the process. This project wouldn’t be complete without honoring Europe’s best feeder franchises, from the Central Red Army to Modo. Finnish journalist Risto Pakarinen, a regular THN contributor with a close eye on all things international hockey, dug through the histories of the continent’s top leagues: the KHL and, previously, the Russian and Soviet circuits; the Swedish Elite League or Elitserien, now the SHL; Finland’s SM-liiga; and the Czech Extraliga, among others. He’s produced a definitive top 10 list of all-star teams. Why have we contained our Euro rankings and not blended them with the North American developmental teams?…
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