The Galt Rockets were a

junior ice hockey Junior ice hockey is amateur-level ice hockey for 16 to 20 year-old players. National Junior teams compete annually for the IIHF World Junior Championship. The United States men's national junior ice hockey team are the defending champions from ...

team based in

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, now a part of the city of

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. They played in the

Ontario Hockey Association The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is the governing body for the majority of junior and senior level ice hockey teams in the province of Ontario. Founded in 1890, the OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern ...

from 1947 to 1949. Their home arena was the Galt Arena Gardens. Originally the Galt Red Wings, the team became the Galt Rockets after NHL sponsorship ended in 1947. After finishing last place in the second season, the team was rescued by another NHL sponsorship, this time from the

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. The Rockets became the Galt Black Hawks in 1949.

NHL alumni

From the Galt Rockets, four players graduated to play in the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

. *

Bronco Horvath Bronco Joseph Horvath (March 12, 1930 – December 17, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 434 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1955 and 1968. Early life Horvath was born to an ethnic Hungarian family t ...

* Harry Pidhirny * Don Simmons * Bill Wylie

Yearly results

External links

www.cambridgehockey.com
- ''The History of Cambridge Hockey'' by Todd Jones

- OHL Arena & Travel Guide
Ontario Hockey League
Official web site
Canadian Hockey League
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