The Cambridge Winter Hawks were a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Cambridge , Ontario , Canada. They played in the Mid-Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League .
7-732: Created in 1982, the team was made to replace the last Cambridge team that was bought out by the Guelph Platers and moved out of town. Their first season was in the OHA Junior "A" League . The Winter Hawks have been a charter member of the Midwestern "B" since 1983, and are currently the 2006 Sutherland Cup Champions, defeating the Niagara Falls Canucks ; they also repeated as 2007 Sutherland Cup champions. The Winter Hawks have applied but were denied to move up to
14-598: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guelph Dominators The Cambridge Redhawks are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Cambridge , Ontario , Canada. They compete in the Midwestern division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL). From 1986 to 2018, the franchise played in nearby Guelph under various monikers such as Platers , Fire , Dominators , and Hurricanes . Founded in 1960 as
21-642: The Midwestern Junior Hockey League and have been there ever since. During the mid to late 90s the Guelph Platers operated as the "farm team" for the Guelph Storm . They would wear the same colour scheme as the original team (with the classic lightning bolt theme) and played out of Guelph Memorial Gardens. While the team generally did not fare well on the ice during most of this period, they had several players drafted into
28-829: The Dominators until 2009. The team first played in the Central Junior C Hockey League , a league now known as the Western Junior C Hockey League . In 1970, they joined the Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League , and in 1971 joined the new Central Junior B Hockey League , the precursor to the Ontario Junior Hockey League . In 1974 they moved to the Waterloo-Wellington Junior B League, which, in 1977, became
35-777: The Hespeler Shamrocks, the team became the Cambridge Shamrocks in 1979 due to a town amalgamation. In 1982, the Shamrocks were purchased by Joe Holody and moved to Guelph to become the farm team to the Guelph Platers (OHL). The team kept the "Platers" moniker until 1996, despite their parent club moving and stranding them to become the Owen Sound Platers in 1989. The team became known as the Fire in 1996 for four seasons before rebranding once again as
42-638: The Junior A Ontario Junior Hockey League for the 2013-14 season. In 2017 the Cambridge Winter Hawks announced they were parting ways with OHA (but not Hockey Canada) and emphasized that they would no longer be of the GOJHL. Options being explored included finding a Junior A league, creating their own Jr. A league, but are not considering joining an outlaw league (i.e. GMHL). OJHL Years This Ontario ice hockey team-related article
49-816: The OHL, receive walk-on tryouts to Major Junior teams, and US college scholarships. Eventually the Platers would become the Guelph Fire. This lasted just four seasons before the team was purchased by a local pizza shop owner who rebranded the team as the Guelph Dominators. In 2009, the Dominators became the Guelph Hurricanes, calling Sleeman Centre home. In May 2018, it was announced the Hurricanes were relocating back to Cambridge , taking over
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