Membertou Jr. Miners

Membertou Jr. Miners
City:	Membertou, Nova Scotia, Canada
League:	Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League
Division:	Sid Rowe
Founded:	c. 1932
Home Arena:	Membertou Sport and Wellness Center
Colors:	Black, Red and White
General Manager:	Ryan Boutilier
Head Coach:	Ryan Boutilier
Franchise history
c. 1932-1992:	Sydney Millionaires
1992-1996:	Cape Breton Jr. Mills
1996-2005:	Cape Breton Alpines
2005-2007:	Whitney Pier Canadians
2007-2010:	Cape Breton Canadians
2010-2016:	Glace Bay Jr. Miners
2016-2021:	Kameron Jr. Miners
2021-Present:	Membertou Jr. Miners

The Membertou Jr. Miners are a Canadian Junior ice hockey club from Membertou, Nova Scotia. They are members of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League and are 1989 and 1997 Don Johnson Cup Maritime Junior B champions and 1976 and 1977 Eastern League Junior A Champions. The team was located in Sydney, Nova Scotia up until 2005 and then Glace Bay until 2016.

History

First observed in the 1932-33 Cape Breton Junior Hockey League, the Sydney Millionaires would win their league title in 1933, 1951, 1964, and 1965. In the 1950s they dabbled with other names like the "Steel Kings" and the "Bombers" as their sponsors changed, but they always came back to the Millionaires.

In the 1970s, the Millionaires joined the Eastern Junior B Hockey League. In 1975, the league became the Eastern Junior A Hockey League. The Millionaires won the league in 1976 by defeating the Glace Bay Miners 4-games-to-1 and the New Waterford Jets 4-games-to-none in the final. They moved on to the Eastern Canada Hewitt-Dudley Memorial Trophy semi-final where they lost 4-games-to-1 to the Island Junior Hockey League's Charlottetown Colonels.

The Millionaires repeated as champions in 1977 defeating the New Waterford Jets 4-games-to-none and then the Glace Bay Miners 4-games-to-2 in the final. In the Eastern Canada Junior A quarter-final, the Millionaires defeated the Newfoundland Champion Corner Brook Jr. Royals 4-games-to-none. In the semi-final, the Mills ran into PEI's Charlottetown Generals and were themselves swept 4-games-to-none from the playoffs.

In the 1980s, the Millionaires dropped down to Junior B in the Northumberland Junior B Hockey League. They were league and Provincial Junior B Champions in 1988, 1989, and 1990. In the 1989, at the Maritime Junior B Don Johnson Cup, the Millionaires would win their first Maritime Junior B Championship. In 1992, their league merged with the Mainland Junior B Hockey League and Mills became the Cape Breton Jr. Mills.

In 1996, the Mills became the Cape Breton Alpines. They would win the 1997 league title and move on to the Maritime Junior B Championship, the Don Johnson Cup, where they went undefeated, beating the New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League's Richibucto Bears 7-5, the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League's Windsor Royals 5-4 in double overtime, and the Island Junior Hockey League's Sherwood-Parkdale Kings 8-4. In the final, the Alpines faced Windsor again, clinching their second Maritime Jr. B Championship with a 5-2 win at their home rink.

They would win another league title in 2000, but lost the Don Johnson Cup final to New Brunswick's Woodstock Slammers 4-1.

In 2005, with a sponsorship from Molson Breweries, the team moved to Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia and became the Whitney Pier Canadians. In 2007, they moved to Dominion, Nova Scotia and became the Cape Breton Canadians.

In the summer of 2010, the Canadians were moved to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Sydney's territorial rival, and renamed after their old nemesis the Glace Bay Jr. Miners.

For the 2016-17 season the team moved to the newly built Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre in the Membertou Mi'kmaq First Nation community on Cape Breton Island just to the south of Sydney.

For the 2017-18 season, the team tied for the league regular season championship and compiled a 12-1 record in the playoffs to win the league playoffs. The team was already selected as host for the 2018 Don Johnson Memorial Cup and would win the tournament going 6-0 to become the Atlantic Region champions for 2017-18.

The team would be renamed to the Membertou Jr. Miners prior to the 2021-22 season.

Season-by-season record

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1950-51	19	15	4	0	-	133	75	30	1st CBJHL	Won League, Lost Provincial
1951-52	24	14	9	1	-	112	84	29	2nd CBJHL	Lost Final
1952-53	24	11	12	1	-	104	115	23	2nd CBJHL	Lost Final
1953-55	Statistics Not Available
1955-56	20	14	5	1	-	131	92	29	1st CBJHL	Lost Final
1956-75	Statistics Not Available
1975-76	34	22	12	0	-	249	187	44	1st EJAHL	Won League
1976-77	36	26	7	3	-	--	--	55	1st EJAHL	Won League
1977-78	30	14	15	1	-	--	--	29	3rd EJAHL	Lost Semi-final
1978-79	30	14	16	0	-	--	--	28	3rd EJAHL	Lost Semi-final
1979-80	32	16	13	3	-	--	--	35	2nd EJAHL	Lost Semi-final
1980-85	Statistics Not Available
1985-86	30	3	26	1	-	123	241	7	4th NJBHL
1986-92	Statistics Not Available
1992-93	25	11	12	0	2	136	126	24	3rd NSJBHL
1993-94	27	12	14	-	1	149	140	25	4th NSJBHL
1994-95	32	14	14	-	4	156	177	32	3rd NSJBHL
1995-96	34	19	12	1	2	178	140	40	4th NSJBHL
1996-97	31	21	7	-	3	202	117	45	3rd NSJBHL	Won League, Won DJC
1997-98	32	16	14	1	1	152	126	34	4th NSJBHL
1998-99	31	21	9	0	1	174	113	43	2nd NSJBHL
1999-00	32	23	9	0	0	208	113	46	2nd NSJBHL	Won League
2000-01	34	23	9	2	0	212	107	48	4th NSJBHL
2001-02	34	22	8	2	2	172	125	48	4th NSJBHL
2002-03	32	28	2	1	1	176	87	58	1st NSJBHL
2003-04	32	21	8	2	1	143	97	45	3rd NSJBHL
2004-05	32	11	17	1	3	120	157	26	7th NSJBHL
2005-06	34	6	24	1	3	134	236	16	9th NSJBHL
2006-07	Did Not Pariticipate
2007-08	33	4	29	0	0	123	248	8	10th NSJHL
2008-09	34	16	18	0	0	117	158	32	8th NSJHL
2009-10	34	5	29	0	0	103	216	10	10th NSJHL
2010-11	34	10	20	-	4	108	191	24	9th NSJHL
2011-12	33	16	15	-	2	140	132	34	3rd / 5 Sid Rowe Div 7th / 11 NSJHL	Lost Div SemiFinal, 0-4 (Bulldogs)
2012-13	34	25	5	-	4	165	95	54	1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div 1st / 11 NSJHL	Won Div SemiFinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs) Lost Div Final, 1-4 (Pirates)
2013-14	34	27	4	-	3	175	92	57	1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div 1st / 11 NSJHL	Won Div SemiFinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs) Won Div Final, 4-0 (Pirates) Lost LEAGUE Finals, 3-4 (Blazers)
2014-15	34	27	47	-	-	191	8 3	54	1st / 5 Sid Rowe Div 1st / 11 NSJHL	Won Div SemiFinal, 4-0 (Bulldogs) Won Div. Finals 4-1, (Scotians) Won League Finals, 4-0 (Maple Leafs) League Champions

Season	GP	W	L	OL	SL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
2015-16	34	24	6	3	-	-	-	73	1st of 5 Sid Rowe 1st of 11 NSJHL'L	Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Blues) Won Div Final, 4-2 (Scotians) Lost League Finals, 0-4 (Maple Leafs)
2016-17	34	22	7	0	5	149	94	70	1st of 5 Sid Rowe 1st of 11 NSJHL'L	Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates) Lost Div. Finals, 3-4 (Scotians)
2017-18	34	26	6	0	2	157	93	54	1st of 5 Sid Rowe T-1st of 11 NSJHL	Won Div Semifinal, 4-0 (Pirates) Won Div. Finals, 4-1 (Bulldogs) Won Final, 4-0 (Penguins)
2018-19	32	20	7	3	0	170	108	45	2nd of 6 Sid Rowe T-3rd of 12 NSJHL	Won Div Semifinal, 4-1 (Scotians) Lost Div. Finals, 0-4 (Pirates)
2019-20	32	24	6	1	1	184	98	50	2nd of 6 Sid Rowe 2nd of 12 NSJHL	Playoffs cancelled before start of Division Final
2020-21	14	9	3	1	1	63	37	20	N/A	Won DSF 4-0 (Strait Pirates Won DF 4-2 (Bulldogs) Final series with East Hants Penguins tied 1-1 when cancelled
2021-22	19	11	5	1	2	81	58	25	3rd Rowe	Lost Division Final
2022-23	30	12	14	3	1	135	114	28	5th Rowe	Did not qualify
2023-24	32	21	10	1	0	112	101	43	2nd Rowe	Lost Division Final

Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Eastern Canada Jr B Championships

Year	Round Robin	Record	Standing	SemiFinal	Br. Med. Game	Gold Medal Game
2015	W, St. John's -Nfld 5-1 L, Moncton - NB 1-4 OTW, Tyne Valley - PEI 5-4 W, Kensington - PEI 2-0	3-1-0	2nd of 5	W, Kensington - PEI-1-0	n/a	L, Moncton - NB 1-4
2018	OTW,East Hants Penguins 5-4 (ot) W, Moncton Vito's 4-3 W, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 3-0 W, Western Red Wings 6-1	3-0-1	1st of 5	W, East Hants Penguins 5-2	n/a	W, Mount Pearl Jr. Blades 4-1

External links

• Jr. Miners Website

Preceded by St. John's Jr. 50's	Don Johnson Cup Champions 1989	Succeeded by St. Margaret's Bay Mariners
Preceded by St. Margaret's Bay Mariners	Don Johnson Cup Champions 1997	Succeeded by Windsor Royals
Preceded by Cap-Pele Predators	Don Johnson Memorial Cup Champions 2018	Succeeded by TBD