The Stoney Creek Warriors were a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Stoney Creek , Ontario , Canada . They play in the Golden Horseshoe division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League as well as the Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League and the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League . As of 2013, the team was relocated to Ancaster, Ontario and renamed the Ancaster Avalanche .
9-673: The Warriors were first formed in 1974 as a member of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League . The Warriors won four Niagara Junior C championships in their time with the league. The team moved up to the Golden Horseshoe Junior B in 1989. In 1993, the team changed their name to the Spirit. In 2001, the team changed their name back to the traditional "Warriors" moniker. The Stoney Creek Warriors for twenty years have been dealing with different circumstances to get to
18-587: Is no bolded champion, there seems to have not been an overall Niagara District Champion and both division entered teams against different opponents at the provincial level. In 1985, the Western Division was known as the "Southwestern Junior C Hockey League". Please note: Through much of the 1980s and 1990s, the divisions of the league were semi-autonomous and would often have different numbers of games in their schedules. The winners, in that case, are chosen by winning percentage. The 2001-02 ended up with
27-788: The Ancaster Avalanche . In April 2018, the team announced they were moving to Hamilton, taking over the Kilty B's moniker, purchased from the ownership of the Markham Royals who were previously located in Hamilton as the Red Wings and Kilty B's. Niagara %26 District Junior C Hockey League The Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League is a former Junior "C" ice hockey league in Ontario , Canada, sanctioned by
36-825: The Georgian Mid-Ontario Junior C Hockey League in 1994. The 27 teams between the Niagara & District League and the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League were reshuffled. The Niagara & District League jumped from 12 to 18 teams, losing the Aylmer Spitfires , but gaining the Ayr Centennials , Burford Bulldogs , Delhi Travellers , Hagersville Hawks , Norfolk Rebels (Port Dover), Tavistock Braves , and Wellesley Applejacks . Not long after,
45-940: The Ontario Hockey Association . The Champion of the Niagara competed for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup . In the summer of 2016, the NDJCHL merged into the Provincial Junior Hockey League . The Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League was formed in 1974. Although corresponding with the founding of the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League , the Niagara District league
54-646: The Niagara & District League. The Southwestern league comprised teams from Norwich, Woodstock, Tillsonburg, Simcoe, and New Hamburg. Local publications, like the Simcoe Reformer, did not recognize the Southwestern League as anything but the Western Division of the Niagara District league. In the Spring of 2013, Junior C hockey in Ontario had its first major realignment since the creation of
63-584: The OHA split off the Western Division of the Niagara League to form the new Midwestern Junior C Hockey League , taking long time Niagara League members the Woodstock Navy-Vets , New Hamburg Firebirds , Norwich Merchants , and Paris Mounties with them. On hiatus: Winner moves on to the Clarence Schmalz Cup . Niagara District Junior C Champions are bolded . In a year that there
72-779: The point they are at right now. After 20 years they won the 2009 Golden Horseshoe Championship against the Niagara Falls Canucks . In 2009, the Warriors made their only appearance in a Sutherland Cup final, losing to the Brantford Eagles of the Mid-Western Conference. In the Summer of 2013, the team was sold to a group in Ancaster, Ontario and relocated. The franchise is become known as
81-677: Was actually founded by removing the Niagara-area teams from the Central Junior C Hockey League and placing them in the new Niagara District league. The Central league is now known as the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League . In 1984, the entire Western Division of the league broke away and formed the Southwestern Junior C Hockey League. The league only lasted one year before it was reabsorbed by
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