Cambridge Winter Hawks

	Cambridge Winter Hawks
City:	Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
League:	Junior Canadian Hockey League
Founded:	1982
Home Arena:	Galt Arena Gardens
Colors:	Black, Red, and White;
Owner(s):	Joe Machado
General Manager:	vacant as of June 5, 2017
Head Coach:	vacant as of June 5, 2017
Media:	Cambridge Times

The Cambridge Winter Hawks are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. They previously played in the Mid-Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. The team left the GOJHL, the OHA, the OHF, and (by default) Hockey Canada in the spring of 2017 in what was claimed to be in protest of the refusal of the OHA to allow the GOJHL Junior A status. Team co-owner Joe Machado created the Junior Canadian Hockey League with the hope of competing at the Junior A level.

History[]

Created in 1982, the team was made to replace the last Cambridge team that was bought out by the Guelph Platers and moved out of town. Their first season was in the OHA Junior "A" League. The Winter Hawks have been a charter member of the Midwestern "B" since 1983, and are currently the 2006 Sutherland Cup Champions, defeating the Niagara Falls Canucks; they also repeated as 2007 Sutherland Cup champions.

The Winter Hawks have applied but were denied to move up to the Junior A Ontario Junior Hockey League for the 2013-14 season.^[1]

In 2017 the Cambridge Winter Hawks announced they were parting ways with OHA (but not Hockey Canada) and emphasized that they would no longer be of the GOJHL. Options being explored included finding a Junior A league, creating their own Jr. A league, but are not considering joining an outlaw league (i.e. GMHL).^[2]

Based on a June 2, 2017 issued joint release made by the Ontario Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada the organization may be working on a league tentatively named the Junior Canadian Hockey League.^[3] And based on this statement the new league will not be sanctioned by Hockey Canada or the OHF as the OHA has the regional jurisdiction over Junior Hockey Teams in all regions of Ontario, except in the NOHA, Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Northwestern Ontario. On June 5th, the general manager, director of hockey operations, head coach, assistant coach and associate coach resigned. Former head coach Dan Fitzgerald stated he found out about the team's intentions from a text message received from the media that follows the GOJHL.^[4]

Season-by-season record[]

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1982-83	48	22	22	4	-	261	261	48	5th OJHL
1983-84	42	24	18	0	-	210	202	48	3rd MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1984-85	42	26	16	0	-	245	224	52	3rd MWJBHL	Lost Semi-final
1985-86	40	11	29	0	-	188	279	22	5th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1986-87	42	8	34	0	-	155	341	16	6th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1987-88	48	2	46	0	-	117	352	4	9th MWJBHL	DNQ
1988-89	48	18	29	1	-	196	258	37	7th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1989-90	48	13	33	2	-	232	340	28	7th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1990-91	48	33	15	0	-	248	204	66	2nd MWJBHL	Lost Semi-final
1991-92	48	15	29	4	-	179	265	34	6th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1992-93	48	7	40	1	-	179	363	15	9th MWJBHL	DNQ
1993-94	48	32	13	3	-	256	177	67	2nd MWJBHL	Lost Final
1994-95	48	28	16	4	-	224	175	60	3rd MWJBHL	Lost Semi-final
1995-96	48	28	15	5	-	261	197	61	3rd MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1996-97	48	29	15	4	-	248	169	62	4th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1997-98	48	17	27	4	-	170	201	38	7th MWJBHL	Lost Quarter-final
1998-99	48	32	14	2	-	229	153	66	2nd MWJBHL	Lost Final
1999-00	48	33	10	5	-	248	113	71	2nd MWJBHL	Won League, Won Sutherland Cup
2000-01	48	25	17	6	-	210	185	56	5th MWJBHL	Lost Final
2001-02	48	32	11	5	-	255	159	69	3rd MWJBHL
2002-03	48	29	15	4	2	232	159	64	3rd MWJBHL
2003-04	48	27	17	4	0	216	164	58	4th MWJBHL
2004-05	48	28	11	4	5	213	141	65	3rd MWJBHL
2005-06	48	38	9	1	-	259	145	77	1st MWJBHL	Won League, Won Sutherland Cup
2006-07	48	36	8	3	1	255	139	76	1st MWJBHL	Won League, Won Sutherland Cup
2007-08	48	25	14	7	2	174	144	59	3rd GOJHL-MW
2008-09	52	24	22	-	6	207	202	54	6th GOJHL-MW	Lost Quarter-final
2009-10	51	25	21	-	5	202	215	55	4th GOJHL-MW	Lost Conf. QF
2010-11	51	20	28	-	3	196	229	43	7th GOJHL-MW	Lost Conf. QF
2011-12	51	30	19	-	2	206	163	62	4th GOJHL-MW
2012-13	51	33	14	-	4	195	133	70	2nd GOJHL-MW	Lost Final
2013-14	49	26	18	-	5	166	148	57	5th GOJHL-MW	Lost Conf. QF
2014-15	49	24	20	-	5	148	147	53	6th GOJHL-MW	Lost Conf. Quarter-final, 1-4 (Cullitons)
2015-16	50	10	35	1	4	129	203	25	9th of 9-MW 23rd of 26-GOJHL	DNQ
2016-17	50	29	19	0	2	173	149	60	5th of 9-MW 13th of 27-GOJHL	Lost Conf. Quarters, 2-4 (Siskins)

Playoffs[]

OJHL Years

1983 Lost Quarter-final

North York Rangers defeated Cambridge Winterhawks 4-games-to-none

Sutherland Cup championships[]

2000: Cambridge Winter Hawks defeated St. Catharines Falcons 4-games-to-none

2006: Cambridge Winter Hawks defeated Niagara Falls Canucks 4-games-to-1

2007: Cambridge Winter Hawks defeated Strathroy Rockets 4-games-to-none

2013: London Nationals defeated Cambridge Winter Hawks 4-games-to-3

Notable alumni[]

References[]

External links[]

Winter Hawks Webpage

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[1] ttp://cambridgewinterhawks.ca/2012/04/11/from-the-times-cambridge-heading-to-ojhl-in-2013-14/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-the-times-cambridge-heading-to-ojhl-in-2013-14&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[2] ttp://www.therecord.com/sports-story/7287498-cambridge-winter-hawks-leave-oha/

[3] ttp://www.ohahockey.ca/view/oha/news/news_486491

[4] ttps://www.cambridgetimes.ca/sports-story/7290034-winter-hawks-coach-gm-and-others-resign/

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Cambridge Winter Hawks

City:	Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
League:	Junior Canadian Hockey League
Founded:	1982
Home Arena:	Galt Arena Gardens
Colors:	Black, Red, and White
Owner(s):	Joe Machado
General Manager:	vacant as of June 5, 2017
Head Coach:	vacant as of June 5, 2017
Media:	Cambridge Times