The Burlington Cougars are a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Burlington, Ontario . They are a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League .
7-758: Founded in the early 1950s, the Burlington Mohawks found their footing in the Central Junior B Hockey League. After seven seasons in the league and two league championships, the team was transferred to the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League . In the Niagara League, the Mohawks (briefly renamed Industrials from 57 to 60) won both the 1963 and 1964 league championships before dropping down to Junior C in 1967. In 1970,
14-709: The Ontario Hockey Association from 1974 until 2007. In 2007, the league became a division of the newly formed Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League along with the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League and Western Ontario Hockey League . The year 1974 saw the founding of the Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League. The league consisted mostly of " inner ring " teams from the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League . The " outer ring " teams maintained with
21-786: The Stratford Cullitons of the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League in the Sutherland Cup final. The Cougars won the series 8-points-to-4 to defeat the Cullitons and claim their only Sutherland Cup. In 1987, the Cougars won their fourth and final Central League championship. In 1993, the Central League was promoted to become the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League , the Cougars made
28-578: The Mohawks jumped back up to the Junior B level in the Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League . They were in the league for one season before the Ontario Hockey Association shifted them back to the Central Junior B Hockey League. The Mohawks were renamed the Cougars in 1976 and stayed in the Central League for twenty-two seasons, from 1971 until 1993. In 1981, the Cougars won their first Central League championship since 1958. They went on to face
35-754: The Niagara league. In 1978, the Golden Horseshoe league jumped from six to nine teams by swallowing the majority of the short-lived Southwestern Junior B Hockey League . A season later, the Niagara District league folded and their final champion, the Fort Erie Meteors , came aboard as the GHL's tenth team. In 1995-96 and 1996–97, the GHL played an interlocking schedule with USA Hockey 's North Eastern Junior Hockey League . In 1997-98,
42-540: The jump with the league. The Cougars have yet to win an OPJHL title. The Cougars recently moved their home rink from Central Arena on Drury Lane to The Wave Twin Rinks on Mainway. 1981 : Burlington Cougars defeated Stratford Cullitons 8-points-to-4 Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League The Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League ( GHL ) was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario , Canada, sanctioned by
49-768: The league even allowed the expansion of one of the NEJHL's teams, the Rochester Jr. Americans for a single season. In 2005-06, the GHL allowed another former NEJHL team, the Wheatfield Jr. Blades , to participate in the league. In 2007, the league merged with the Western Ontario Hockey League and the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League to form the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League . For information on
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