The Exeter Hawks are a Junior ice hockey team based in Exeter , Ontario , Canada. They play in the Provincial Junior Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association .
23-875: The Exeter Hawks were founded in 1961 as members of the Shamrock Junior D Hockey League. In the late sixties, the Hawks jumped to the Bluewater Junior Hockey League for a short stint. In 1969, the Shamrock league changed its name to the Western Junior D Hockey League. In 1970–71, the Hawks won the Western League and made it all the way to the OHA provincial championship. They met another junior team from Haliburton, Ontario from
46-535: A battle over which team deserved ascension to Major Junior A level . The Spitfires opted to not renew their agreement with the Royals and financially supported the new Belle River Bulldogs . They were joined by the soon-to-be powerhouse Essex 73's and Michigan Yankees of Utica, Michigan . Sandwich West did not return for a second season. Windsor walked through Tilbury and Belle River with no problem to win their second straight Jr. B title. Essex would shock everyone in
69-660: A dominant series victory over the upstart Royals, while the Dresden Jr. Kings went the distance and shocked the Leamington Flyers (who had finished the season with ten more wins). Dresden would go on to defeat the Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League 's Champion, Bowmanville Red Eagles to win the league's first ever Provincial Championship . In the Summer of 1971, the league expanded again with
92-599: A total of $ 6,000. The team was forced out of Tilbury by the end of the 1993-94 season, relocating to Walpole Island and folding in 1999. The team was a part of an investigation and subject matter of an episode of The Fifth Estate . Winner moves on to the Clarence Schmalz Cup . (*) Leamington awarded 1972-73 regular season title over Windsor Royals due to winning head-to-head record. National Hockey League Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League The Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League
115-739: The Border Cities Junior Hockey League in 1968. In 1968-69, the league operated on both sides of the Canada - United States border. The Leamington Flyers joined the league after a lackluster year in the Western Jr. B League , with the Blenheim Golden Blades , Petrolia Jets , and Dresden Jr. Kings on the Canadian side. The American teams did not participate in the OHA playoffs. Blenheim would win
138-555: The Clarence Schmalz Cup . It is now a division in the Provincial Junior Hockey League . The league got its start as the Border Cities Junior Hockey League in 1968. It became a Junior B and C league under the Great Lakes name in 1970 before strictly Junior C in 1974. Out of the ashes of the old Bluewater Hockey League , a local league that sometimes operated at Junior D and Juvenile levels, came
161-766: The Mooretown Flags jumping in at the Junior C level. Petrolia would defeat Windsor again at Jr. B, while Leamington gained revenge over Dresden in the Jr. C final. Leamington would manage to duplicate the deeds of the Kings in 1971, winning the 1972 OHA Junior C Championship over the Central Ontario League's Cobourg Cougars . Before the 1972-73 season, the Petrolia Jets applied to leave the league for
184-656: The Ontario Provincial Police stemming back to a rookie party in the Fall of 1993. Members of the Hawks organization, who won the league in 1992-93, had engaged in a rookie party at the team owner's house in which various hazing rituals were performed on rookies including forced drinking, group masturbation, shaving of pubic hair, and various sexual acts. Eventually, team trainer Paul Everaert and captain Ed Fiala pleaded guilty to their charges and were fined
207-581: The South Central Junior D Hockey League . Haliburton defeated the Hawks 4-games-to-3. A season later, the Hawks again won the Western League and found themselves against an Eastern Ontario representative from Bancroft, Ontario in the provincial final. This year the Hawks were not to be denied as they swept Bancroft 4-games-to-none to win the OHA Cup for the first time. In 1977, the Hawks won their third Western League title and advanced to
230-717: The Western Ontario Junior B Hockey League . They were replaced by the Sandwich West Thunderbirds of LaSalle, Ontario at the Jr. B level and the Wallaceburg Lakers in Jr. C. Windsor would win the B loop, while Leamington would again take Jr. C. The Summer of 1973 brought more expansion. The Royals, disgruntled former affiliates of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League 's Windsor Spitfires were having
253-727: The 2019–20 season were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , leading to the team not being able to play a single game. Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League The Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League was a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Ontario , Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association . The champion of the Great Lakes competed for the All-Ontario Championship and
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#1732802602031276-751: The Border Cities Jr. B crown with a 4-games-to-2 series win over Petrolia, while Dresden would beat Leamington 3-games-to-2 with 2 ties for the Junior C crown. In 1969-70, the league operated as two different, but interlocked, identities - the Border Cities League and the Michigan Junior Hockey League . The Canadian teams stayed with the BCJHL and added a fifth member - the Tilbury Bluebirds . Petrolia
299-581: The Central Ontario League's Lindsay Muskies 4-games-to-3. In 1975, Belle River Bulldogs left the league after only two seasons. Essex would win the 1975-76 regular season title, their third straight, by beating Dresden in seven games, but would fall to the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League 's Dunnville Terriers 4-games-to-2 in the provincial final. In 1994, members of the Tilbury Hawks were charged with 135 various criminal violations by
322-593: The Fall of 1970, the league renamed itself the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League . The 1970-71 season, the first as the Great Lakes Junior Hockey League, saw the league operating with six teams. Four of the teams in the league had opted for a Junior B designation for the playoffs: Blenheim, Petrolia, Tilbury and Windsor; Dresden and Leamington remained Junior C. Petrolia would take the league Junior B crown with
345-561: The Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League had dropped down to eight teams for 1974-75: Belle River, Blenheim, Dresden, Essex, Leamington, Mooretown, Tilbury, and Wallaceburg. Essex, in only their second year, would win not only the regular season title (33-8-1), the playoff championship by defeating Leamington in four-straight-games, but would march their way to their first (and the GLJCHL's third) OHA Junior C Championship by defeating
368-790: The Quinte-St. Lawrence League folded. The Wellington Dukes fled to the Central League and the Gananoque Islanders joined the Ottawa District Hockey Association 's Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League . With a plethora of major towns in the league: Trenton, Ajax, Bowmanville, Port Hope, Lindsay, Cobourg, and the retirement community-backed Wellington Dukes; the Central Junior B Hockey League absorbed many of these franchises over
391-578: The course of a couple years in their run to Junior A status—obtained in 1993. Since losing half of their teams, the Central Ontario League has survived with the likes of Georgina, Lakefield, Little Britain, Port Perry, and Uxbridge. A sixth team has failed to stick in most cases, in towns like Bobcaygeon and Madoc. Due to retraction in the Ontario Junior Hockey League , the Bowmanville Eagles have returned in 2011 in
414-732: The form of the Clarington Eagles but Ajax remains unserviced after their team left Junior A, both having folded in 2010. Following the 2015-16 seasons the Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League amalgamated with the other southern Ontario junior "C" hockey leagues and became a division within the Provincial Junior Hockey League . For the Ontario Hockey Association "All-Ontario Jr. "C" Championship", please go to
437-466: The league and finish with the best record, but fell in the Jr. C finals to the Leamington Flyers. In the Summer of 1974, the Royals were relocated to the Western Ontario Junior B Hockey League and the Michigan Yankees ceased operations. With half the teams gone from their already fragile Jr. B loop, the league opted to operate at Junior C from then on. After eliminating the Junior B level,
460-590: The provincial championship. Their opponents were the Stayner Siskins , which they defeated 4-games-to-none to win their second provincial championship. The next year, the Hawks again won the Western League and ran into the Lakefield Chiefs in the OHA Cup final. The Chiefs overpowered the Hawks in the end, defeating Exeter in Game 7 of the series to claim the OHA Cup 4-games-to-3. The playoffs for
483-849: The westerly teams formed the Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League , while most of the easterly teams formed the Central Lakeshore Junior C League. In 1972, the Eastern Junior B Hockey League was also divided up, half to the Metro Junior B Hockey League and the other half to the Central League. With this, the Eastern Junior C Loop became the Quinte-St. Lawrence Junior C Hockey League , the Central League's main territorial rival until 1986. In 1986,
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#1732802602031506-620: Was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario , Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association . The "Central" played inter-league games with the Empire Junior "C" League. The champion of the Central competed for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup . The league is now a division in the Provincial Junior Hockey League . In 1970, the Suburban Junior C Hockey League divided into two leagues. Most of
529-534: Was named Junior B champions at the end of the year, uncontested, and went on to the Sutherland Cup playdowns, while Leamington beat Dresden for the Junior C championship, and Blenheim beat Tilbury for a Junior D title. During the summer, the league opted to separate from its Michigan brethren, who went on to form their own league. The league received an offer from a new team, the Windsor Royals . In
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