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40-907: The Bradford Vasey Juniors were founded in 1971 as they joined the South-Central Junior "D" Hockey League. The league soon became the Central Junior "C", then the Mid-Ontario Junior "C", and finally after merging with the Georgian Junior "C" league became the Georgian Mid-Ontario Junior "C" Hockey League. Their team's first championship was the Junior "D" OHA Cup in 1973. They won the All-Ontario Junior "D" title by defeating

80-431: A $ 75,000 bond and unilaterally folded the team. No WHA franchise apparently attempted to field a roster for the scheduled start of the 2008-2009 season, and no games were ever played. The last post to the league's website was on September 15, 2008 - which as of July 2009 was shut down for lack of payment - addressing the possible suspension by Hockey Canada of any player suiting up for a WHA team. On January 16, 2009,

120-615: A lawsuit in British Columbia against Hockey Canada , the Pacific International Junior Hockey League , BC Hockey , former WHA Coach Matt Samson, and Squamish Manager of Recreational Services Janet Gugins. The charges stem from Smith's belief that Hockey Canada and BC Hockey maliciously targeted the WHA in the summer of 2008 with a series of bulletins targeted at keeping players from joining

160-742: The Mitchell Hawks 4-games-to-1. That summer, the SCJDHL was promoted to Junior "C" for the 1974–75 season, and changed their name to the Bradford Blues for the 1975–76 season. In 1980, Bradford won their league and went all the way to the Clarence Schmalz Cup All-Ontario Final. In the end, they lost out to the Leamington Flyers 4-games-straight. In 1986, they made it all the way back to

200-617: The Ontario Hockey Association . The Mitchell Hawks were founded in 1966 in one of the many Ontario Hockey Association Junior C leagues. They finished low in the standings and were allowed to compete in the Junior D provincial championships. In the Junior D play downs, the Hawks found their niche and made it all the way to the OHA Cup final against a representative from Madoc, Ontario . The Hawks came up short and lost

240-742: The Toronto Canada Moose , a 5–3 win. On September 24, 2006, the Bradford Rattlers became the last undefeated team of the GMHL's inaugural season, moving to 5–0–0–0, defeating the (until then undefeated) Richmond Hill Rams by a score of 3–1. The winning streak lasted until October 15, 2006, 10–0–0–0, as the Rattlers picked up an overtime loss to the King Wild , but still had yet to lose a game in regulation. On January 21, 2007,

280-609: The Toronto Canada Moose . After winning the first two games, the Moose came back and took game three and four of the best-of-five series to force a decisive game five. The Rattlers overcame the potential upset and won the series 3-games-to-2. In the division semifinals, the Rattlers drew the Deseronto Storm . The Rattlers took game one, but in game two and three the Storm took control. The Rattlers had to win game four to prolong

320-680: The United States playing games in junior hockey tournaments and against college teams from 2004 until 2006. A number of alumni received US college offers and Russian -based player Kirill Tulupov , who made his presence known in North America by touring with the Toronto Rattlers, was taken by the New Jersey Devils in the third round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft . The new ownership group believed that combining

360-582: The WHA Junior West Hockey League 's New Westminster Whalers for the short-lived National Junior Hockey Alliance's "Alliance Cup," the only year in which this competition was contested. The Rattlers swept the series 3-games-to-none. On December 30, 2007, the Rattlers hosted the Moscow Selects All-star team in an exhibition game. The Selects won the game by a score of 8–4. This was the second game of seven that

400-625: The World Hockey Association and the creation of the "National Junior Hockey Alliance," an agreement to play for the "Alliance Cup" between the GMHL playoff champion and the winner of the WHA Junior West Hockey League. On March 2, 2007, the JWHL final was awarded to New Westminster after winning the best of five series. Lumby pulled out of the league final after a financial dispute between Lumby's coach and

440-551: The 1983–84 season. In 1988, all of Ontario's Junior D was consolidated into one "super league" and in 1991 the league was renamed the OHA Junior Development League. In 1993, the Hawks came back to prominence and made it all the way to the league final. In the final, the Hawks challenged the Thamesford Trojans and defeated them by 4-games-to-1 to win their second OHA Cup. The next season,

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480-648: The 2007-08 season, the WHA lost Barrhead, Fort Vancouver, Osoyoos, Squamish, and Vancouver, but announced that it had retained Armstrong, Lumby and Oliver. Furthermore, the league announced in July 2008 that it had secured affiliation deals with the Varkaus Eagles of Finland and Red Star-Sofia in Bulgaria. As part of the arrangement, WHA owner Ricky Smith was given control of the Eagles, but subsequently defaulted on

520-611: The All-Ontario Final. The Most valuable Player of the playoffs was Noah Bell, who was drafted into the Ontario Hockey League a year later by the Sudbury Wolves . The Bradford Bulls were bought out towards the end of the 2005–06 season by a local party who owned an independent Junior "A" travelling team known as the Toronto Rattlers, though technically a Toronto -area franchise. The Rattlers toured

560-591: The All-Ontario final only to lose to the Norwich Merchants 4-games-to-3. The team changed its name to Bradford Bulls for the 1988–89 season, in which they immediately struck gold; they won their league and then followed it up with a 4-games-to-2 series victory to defeat the Hanover Barons to win their only ever Clarence Schmalz Cup . The Bulls won the league again in 1998, but did not reach

600-673: The Bradford Rattlers became a member of the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMHL). The Bradford Rattlers first game in the GMHL was against the South Muskoka Shield on September 15, 2006, in Gravenhurst, Ontario . The Rattlers dismantled the Shield, winning by a score of 10–1. Andreas Goetz picked up the team's first Junior "A" victory in net. Their first home game was on September 17, 2006, against

640-621: The Fort Vancouver Pioneers ceased operations following the WHA reneging on travel arrangements made with the club. The Pioneers had a league best 7-1-0-0 record with 61 goals for and 27 goals against. Late in November, the transplanted 2007 champion Whalers (3-6-0-0 with 40 GF and 49 GA) seemingly folded and their players were moved in with the Osoyoos Spurs franchise. The remaining teams played little more than half

680-551: The Hawks finished second overall in league standings with 35 wins and only 3 losses. They battled through the playoffs and met the first place Port Stanley Lakers in the finals. The Hawks defeated the Lakers 4-games-to-none to win their third OHA Cup and second straight OHAJDL championship. The Mitchell Hawks finished the 2005–06 season first in their conference and fourth overall in the OHAJDL with 23 wins and 9 losses. They entered

720-479: The Moscow team played against different GMHL clubs. In 2007–08, the Rattlers challenged their 31-game record for regular season games without a regulation loss, but came up short with a still impressive 28-game streak with a 5–3 January 6 loss to the Deseronto Storm . The Rattlers did, however, set a new league record for regular season games without a regulation loss across multiple seasons with 38. This also marked

760-512: The Rattlers had compiled a 27–0–0–4 record before playing the Deseronto Thunder . The Thunder were leading 5–2 but Bradford came only to lose for the first time in regulation by a score of 6–5. The Rattlers finished the season in first place, earning a bye into the league semifinals. Their semifinals opponent was the Deseronto Thunder . The Thunder won the first two games of the series. The Rattlers pulled themselves together and won

800-541: The Rattlers played against Kazakhstan 's Torpedo UST-Kamenogorsk Under-18 squad in Shelburne, Ontario . At one point leading 5–0, the Rattlers played a lot of their younger players in the second half of the game. The final score was 6–5 for Bradford. The Rattlers finished the 2008–09 season with the second best record in the South Division and third best in the league. In the playoffs, the Rattlers first met

840-559: The Russell Cup as GMHL. In those four years, the Rattlers failed to reach the finals in each of those years. The 2012–13 led to the Rattlers turning in the league's first undefeated season with a 42–0–0–0 record. There would be a black mark on this season though when the Rattlers competed in the league's showcase tournament in Bracebridge, Ontario , in late 2012. They turned in a less than stellar performance and were ejected from

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880-663: The SOJHL final. Their opponents in the SOJHL final was the Delhi Travellers . The Hawks ended up defeating the Travellers 4-games-to-2 to win their fourth ever OHA Cup and the first ever SOJHL championship. On May 29, 2008, Mitchell was granted expansion into the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League . On September 19, the Hawks played their first modern Western Junior C game. They were defeated on

920-567: The South Division final, the Rattlers faced the Orangeville Americans and swept them in four games. The series victory gave them a record of 52–0–0–0 so far that year. The perfect streak was snapped the very next game in the league final by the Temiscaming Titans 7–6 in overtime. Bradford would win games two and three to extend their record for streak of games without a regulation loss to 55 games before that streak

960-614: The WHA by a British Columbia Court. The WHA lost its Bellingham franchise in the fall of 2007, but gained the Fort Vancouver Pioneers. The Pioneers received much scrutiny in USA Hockey 's NorPac league due to allegations of "overcompensating" their players and violating their amateur status. The team was founded in 2003 as the Portland Pioneers and won two league championships. On October 28, 2007,

1000-446: The WHA was successfully sued by Global Developments Inc. for US$ 4.3 Million in losses in a District of Nevada courtroom for purposely diluting the worth of Global's interest in the company. In addition, the WHA was ordered to repay $ 277,386 in loans provided to them by Global. Under Smith, the share price of the WHA fell from $ 3.45 to less than one cent, before being taken off the trading market. On November 24, 2009, Ricky Smith filed

1040-563: The Western Conference and the Pollock Division. WHA Junior West Hockey League The WHA Junior Hockey League was an independent Canadian junior ice hockey league based out of British Columbia , Canada . The league marketed itself as a Junior A league, but was an unsanctioned independent loop with its own rules, processes and procedures, and was marked by franchise instability. Its team logos were based on

1080-688: The Western Ontario Junior D Hockey League. In 1974, the Hawks won the Western Junior D championship and challenged deep into the OHA championships. Upon reaching the OHA Cup final, they met the South-Central Junior D Hockey League champion Bradford Vasey Juniors . The Vasey Juniors defeated the Hawks 4-games-to-1 to win the provincial championship. The Hawks fell on hard times in the 1980s and were forced to sit out

1120-427: The best-of-five series, and succeeded with a 5–1 victory. The next morning it was announced that the Deseronto Storm protested the result of game four due to a roster violation by Bradford. Upon review of the league, the result of game four was overturned and the Rattlers were disqualified from the remainder of the playoffs. The 2008 championship passed and in the four following years four different teams would claim

1160-538: The conference quarter-final against the eighth seeded West Lorne Lakers . The Lakers created a massive upset and defeated the Hawks 4-games-to-2. The upset helped clear the way for the seventh seeded Lucan Irish to eventually win the title. In 2006, the OHAJDL disbanded and the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League was formed. The Hawks finished their first season in the SOJHL in fifth place overall with 26 wins and 12 losses. In

1200-547: The end of the longest winning streak in GMHL history of 27 straight wins. The Rattlers began the 2008 playoffs against the Toronto Canada Moose , whom they swept. They then defeated the South Muskoka Shield 4-games-to-1. In the league semifinals, they swept the Elliot Lake Bobcats and in the league finals they swept the Innisfil Lakers to win their second straight Russell Cup. On January 5, 2009,

1240-651: The first round of the playoffs, the Hawks drew the Central Elgin Express . The Hawks defeated the Express 4-games-to-none. In the second round, the Hawks came up against the Lambeth Lancers who they promptly swept 4-games-to-none as well. In the conference final, the Hawks found themselves playing the Thamesford Trojans . The Hawks ended up defeating the Trojans 4-games-to-2 to earn a berth to

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1280-594: The league; the league chose to remove Lumby's coach and continued the series without him. The Whalers won the last two games to take the league title. The Whalers moved on to compete for the Alliance Cup against the Greater Metro League's Bradford Rattlers , and were swept three games straight by the GMJHL champion. On March 2, 2007, Vancouver Tours Bus Lines was awarded $ 71,348 CAD in unpaid fees by

1320-518: The next four games straight to play in the league finals. The finals were against the league's second seeded King Wild . The Rattlers started with a 2–1 victory but the Wild won the second game 6–3 to even the series. The Rattlers came back and won the next game 5–0 while the fourth and fifth games went to overtime with Bradford winning 2–1 and 4–3, respectively. The Bradford Rattlers won the first ever Bob Russell Cup as GMHL Champions. The Rattlers faced

1360-604: The old WHA pro league of the 1970s. The first game in league history (when it was known as the WHA Junior West Hockey League ) took place on September 21, 2006, between the Lumby Fighting Saints and the Armstrong Sharks in Armstrong, British Columbia . The result of the game was a 6-4 victory for Lumby. On November 15, 2006, the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League announced its affiliation with

1400-567: The operations and management of the thirty-five-year-old Branford franchise with the experience of the Toronto Rattlers would earn the Bradford franchise a move up to the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League , but when the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) turned down the request the team walked away from the OHA's version of Junior "A". The Bradford franchise adopted the nickname of the now disbanded travelling team, and

1440-637: The road by the Kincardine Bulldogs 8–2. The following night, the Hawks made their home debut and defeated the defending league champion Walkerton Hawks 3–1. During the summer of 2016 the eight junior "C" leagues in Southern Ontario came together as the Provincial Junior Hockey League . The former leagues became divisions and assigned to one of four conferences. For the Hawks it means they will play in

1480-514: The schedule before the season was cut short, and a "championship" series played between the Oliver Jets and the Armstrong Sharks. After a second season cut short and the playoffs won by the Oliver Jets with little notice, there was no sign of any renewal of the "Alliance Cup." In the summer of 2008, the WHA announced the addition of teams in Hope, Ashcroft, Nakusp, Clinton and Logan Lake. From

1520-417: The series 4-games-to-1. The following season, the same scenario played out in the Western Junior C league and the Hawks were entered into the Junior D playoffs. The Hawks again made it to the final and defeated a representative from Bobcaygeon , Ontario, 4-games-to-none with one tie to win their first provincial championship in only their second season. After the playoffs concluded, the Hawks dropped down to

1560-587: The tournament, along with longtime rival South Muskoka Shield , for a brawl and an off-ice altercation involving crowd members and ejected players that caused a police investigation. The Rattlers perfect season allowed them a date with the eighth seeded Lefroy Wave . Sweeping the Wave in three games extended the Rattlers winning streak to 45 games. They played the Bobcaygeon Bucks next, sweeping them in three games and extending their streak to 48 games. In

1600-426: Was ended in regulation in game four by the Titans. The Rattlers would win games five and six and the series to claim their third Russell Cup. (*) Standings incomplete. National Championships (GMHL North and South and Western) Blues Mitchell Hawks The Mitchell Hawks are a Junior ice hockey team based in Mitchell , Ontario , Canada. They play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League of

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