The Sarnia Sailors are a defunct Canadian semi-professional and amateur senior ice hockey team. The team played in the City of Sarnia , Ontario, Canada and participated in the International Hockey League and the OHA Senior A Hockey League afterwards.
5-712: The Sarnia Sailors began as an expansion team in 1949 with the Chatham Maroons in the International Hockey League . That year, the two upstarts dominated the league's playoffs and ended up in a one-on-one showdown for the Turner Cup. The Maroons came out on top, winning the series in seven games. From that point on, the Sailors demise began. They played one more season in the IHL before dropping to
10-750: The International Hockey League on two occasions and the OHA Senior A Hockey League in between. In 1950, the Chatham Maroons won the International Hockey League 's Turner Cup as playoff champions by defeating the Sarnia Sailors 4-games-to-3. This was the Maroons' only professional championship. The Maroons later played in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) as a member of the OHA Senior A League . The team won
15-528: The J. Ross Robertson Cup as league champions in 1956 and 1960, and were finalists in 1962 and 1963. The Chatham Maroons were the winners of the 1960 Allan Cup , emblematic of the top senior hockey team in all of Canada. The same year the club played couple of friendlies in Moscow with the collective team of the Soviet clubs where they won the first meeting 5:3 and lost the second one 2:11. The Maroons defeated
20-500: The amateur ranks in the OHA Senior A Hockey League . The Sailors were finalists for the J. Ross Robertson Cup in the 1950–51 season. Meeting a similar talent lever in the OHA, the Sailors struggled for three seasons before folding mid-season in 1953–54. The Sailors never stepped back on the ice. The team name was shared by the local Junior "B" hockey team. In 1954, after the Sr. Sailors folded,
25-563: The team changed their names to the Sarnia Legionnaires . The Legionnaires folded mid-season as well, in 1969–70. This Ontario ice hockey team-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chatham Maroons (IHL) The Chatham Maroons are a defunct Canadian semi-professional and amateur senior ice hockey team. The team played in the City of Chatham, Ontario , Canada and participated in
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