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Niagara Falls Flyers (1972–1976)
The Niagara Falls Flyers were a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team and member of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. The team played home games at the Niagara Falls Memorial Arena in Niagara Falls, Ontario. History In 1972, the Ontario Hockey Association's Tier I Junior "A" Niagara Falls Flyers were sold and relocated to Sudbury, Ontario as the Sudbury Wolves. They were replaced in Niagara Falls by the Tier II Flyers the same year. They played four seasons in the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. In 1976, the Tier II Flyers made way for the St. Catharines Black Hawks who were relocated as the second incarnation of the Tier I Niagara Falls Flyers. Season-by-season results Playoffs *1973 ''Lost quarter-final'' :Windsor Spitfires defeated Niagara Falls Flyers ''4-games-to-3'' *1974 ''Lost quarter-final'' : Welland Sabres defeated Niagara Falls Flyers ''4-games-to-1'' *1975 ''Lost quarter-final'' :Chatham Maroons defeated Niagara Falls Flyers ''4-games-to-1 with ...
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Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a city in Ontario, Canada, adjacent to, and named after, Niagara Falls. As of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, the city had a population of 94,415. The city is located on the Niagara Peninsula along the western bank of the Niagara River, which forms part of the Canada–United States border, with the other side being the twin city of Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is within the Regional Municipality of Niagara and a part of the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, St. Catharines - Niagara Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Tourism is a major part of the city's economy: its skyline consists of multiple high-rise hotels and observation towers that overlook the waterfalls and adjacent parkland. Souvenir shops, arcades, museums, amusement rides, indoor water parks, casinos, theatres and a Niagara Falls Convention Centre, convention centre are located nearby in the city's large tourist area. Other parts of the city include histori ...
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Windsor Spitfires
The Windsor Spitfires are a Canadian junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The team is based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1971, the franchise was promoted to the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League for the 1975–76 season.Simcoe Reformer. February 11, 1975, Page 4. An unrelated Windsor Spitfires team, founded in 1946, moved to become the Hamilton Tiger Cubs in 1953, and later became the Erie Otters in 1996. History The original Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey Association played from 1945 to 1953. The name ''Spitfires'' was chosen to honour the 417 Combat Support Squadron, a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron nicknamed "City of Windsor" established during World War II in England (today based at CFB Cold Lake in Alberta), and used the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. During this period the Spitfires reached the league finals twice, and featured four future Hockey Hall of Fame players. Prior to 1945, local junior hockey was divided up into ...
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Ice Hockey Clubs Disestablished In 1976
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Sport In Niagara Falls, Ontario
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Defunct Ice Hockey Teams In Ontario
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Peter Scamurra
Peter Vincent Scamurra (born February 23, 1955) is an American-born former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played 132 games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals from 1975 to 1979. He was drafted 19th overall in 1975 by the Capitals and 50th overall by the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association. Hockey career Early career Scamurra was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Williamsville, New York. He started playing ice hockey in fifth grade while attending Nichols School. He attended high school at Amherst Central High School and captured the Erie County Interscholastic Conference first singles tennis title, while ranked as a top-ten tennis player in the area. Junior Hockey During his senior year of high school Scamurra played hockey for the Niagara Falls Flyers in the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. There, he was scouted by Bob Johnson, then the coach at the Wisconsin Badgers Ice Hockey Team, which had just won the 19 ...
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Willi Plett
Willi Plett (born June 7, 1955) is a Paraguayan-born Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played 834 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins. He reached the 1981 NHL playoff semifinals with the Flames and the 1984 NHL playoff semifinals with the North Stars. He was a fifth-round selection of the Atlanta Flames in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft, 80th overall. Plett was a member of the Tulsa Oilers' Adams Cup championship team in 1975–76 and won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1977 as the NHL's top rookie. He transferred with the Flames franchise to Calgary in 1980 and a 1982 trade sent him to Minnesota where he played five seasons. Plett retired in 1988 following one season in Boston. Early life Plett was born into a Russian Mennonite family who had lived in the Soviet Union and then Germany and fled to South America to escape the Second World War. They settled in Asunción, ...
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Cam Botting
Cameron Allan Botting (born March 10, 1954) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played two games in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Flames The Atlanta Flames were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta from 1972 until 1980. They played home games in the Omni Coliseum and were members of the West and later Patrick divisions of the National Hockey League (NHL). Along with t ... during the 1975–76 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1974 to 1984, was spent in various minor leagues. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs External links * 1954 births Living people Atlanta Flames draft picks Atlanta Flames players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Canadian ice hockey forwards Des Moines Capitols players Edmonton Oilers (WHA) draft picks Erie Golden Blades players Flint Generals (IHL) players Hamilton Red Wings (OHA) players Niagara Falls Flyers (1960â ...
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Chatham Maroons
The Chatham Maroons are a junior hockey, junior ice hockey team based in Chatham, Ontario, Chatham, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL). The Maroons were the 1970 Western Ontario Junior A Champions and 1973 Southern Ontario Junior A Champions. The Maroons have won Twice won the Sutherland Cup as Ontario Hockey Association Junior B Champions in 1999 and 2025. In the 2021-2022 season, the Maroonwon the GOJHL Western Conference Championship4-2 over the Leamington Flyers, Leamington Flyers. The Maroons dedicated their Championship in honour of their longtime equipment manager and team volunteerRandy DeWael who died suddenly during the playoffs. History The Maroons originated in the Border Cities Junior B Hockey League in 1959. The team later moved to the stronger Western Junior "B" league in 1964 and continued with the league, even when it became the renegade Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League in 1970. T ...
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Welland Sabres
The Welland Sabres are a defunct Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team that were based out of Welland, Ontario and was a part of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. Season-by-season results Playoffs *1971 ''Lost semi-final'' : Detroit Jr. Red Wings defeated Welland Sabres ''3-games-to-none with 2 ties'' *1972 ''Lost quarter-final'' : Detroit Jr. Red Wings defeated Welland Sabres ''4-games-to-1'' *1973 ''Lost semi-final'' :Chatham Maroons defeated Welland Sabres ''4-games-to-2 with 1 tie'' *1974 ''Lost semi-final'' :Welland Sabres defeated Niagara Falls Flyers ''4-games-to-1'' :Chatham Maroons defeated Welland Sabres ''4-games-to-2'' *1975 ''Lost quarter-final'' :Guelph CMC's defeated Welland Sabres ''4-games-to-1'' *1976 ''Lost semi-final'' :Guelph Platers The Guelph Platers were a junior ice hockey team based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The team played in the Ontario Hockey League, Ontario Junior Hockey League, and Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League. They were orig ...
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SOJAHL Standings
The Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League was a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey that lasted from the late 1960s until 1977 in Southern Ontario, Canada. The league was swallowed by what is now called the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League in 1977. *The Big '10' ''Western Division'' Prior to 1956 *Western Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League 1956 - 1968 *Western Ontario Junior "A" Hockey League 1968 - 1970 *Southern Ontario Junior "A" Hockey League 1970 - 1977 History In 1956 the traditional Big '10' League was divided, its Western Division became the Western Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League, and the Central Division became the Central Junior "B" Hockey League. In the 1960s, the Western Junior "B" Hockey League was arguably the top league of Junior "B" hockey in Ontario. The Western's brass and the team owners felt that they should, as a whole, be promoted to Junior "A" status. In 1968 the league applied to the Ontario Hockey Association, but were declined by Jack Devine wh ...
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