Colborne Cramahe Hawks Explained

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Team:Colborne Cramahe Hawks
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City:Colborne, Ontario, Canada
League:World United Hockey League
Arena:Keeler Centre
Colours:Black, Red, and White
Coach:Mike Jeschke
Gm:Mike Jeschke
Media:The Sports Cave
Name1:Douro Dukes
Dates1:2007–2008
Name2:Brock Bucks
Dates2:2008–2010
Name3:Bobcaygeon Bucks
Dates3:2010–2014
Name4:Colborne Cramahe Hawks
Dates4:2014–2015

The Colborne Cramahe Hawks were a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Colborne, Ontario. The Hawks were members of the World United Hockey League.

Competing in the Greater Metro Junior 'A' Hockey League from 2007 until 2014, the Hawks originated as the Douro Dukes of Douro, Ontario in 2007. From 2008 until 2014, the team was known as the Bucks from Beaverton, Ontario and later Bobcaygeon, Ontario.

History

The Douro Dukes were one of six expansion teams for the 2007–08 GMHL season.

On September 6, 2007, the Douro Dukes played their first-ever game at the Ennismore Arena against the Innisfil Lakers. John Minarik made 27 saves to record the Dukes first victory and first-ever shutout by a score of 2–0. Tony DeCarlo scored both the first and second goal in franchise history in the third period of this very close contest.

After a strong start to the season, the Dukes lost many of their key players to defections to other clubs including: Guy Wallace, Brad Meyers, Mike Banelopoulos, Andrew Bobas, John Minark and Mike Madgett. The Dukes won two of their first four games, beating Innisfil and the Nipissing Alouettes, but the bottom dropped out and the Dukes went on a horrid 38-game losing streak. Despite this, the Dukes ended up facing the King Wild in the first round of the playoffs. They kept the first game close, and games two, three, and four close until the third period, but the previous year's finalists swept the series 4 games to none.

In April 2008, it was announced that the Dukes had moved to become the Warsaw Redmen, but a month later it was disclosed that the team would instead move to Beaverton, Ontario and would be called the Brock Bucks.

On September 14, 2008, the Brock Bucks played their first ever game since relocation. The game was against the Minden Riverkings in Minden Hills. The Bucks won 7–5 which snapped the longest running multi-season losing streak in the GMHL at 38 losses. This win was the franchise's first win since September 22, 2007.

In the summer of 2010, it was announced that the team was moving to Bobcaygeon and becoming the Bobcaygeon Bucks.

In the Spring of 2014, the team announced that after four seasons in the GMHL the team would relocate to Colborne, Ontario[1] as members of the newly formed Canadian International Hockey League.[2] The Hawks, after nine games would find themselves in seventh place out of eight teams. In mid-November, the Hawks left the CIHL with four other teams, but before they could join the other teams in a new league they were locked out of their arena over unpaid bills and forced to temporarily cease operations. The team reorganized and joined the new World United Hockey League[3] with the former CIHL teams. After the demise of WUHL in 2015, the club has no activity.

Season-by-season standings

Season GP W L T OTL GF GA Pts Results Playoffs
Douro Dukes
2007–08 42 2 40 - 0 108 392 4 13th, GMHL Lost bye round
Brock Bucks
2008–09 43 15 26 - 2 191 242 32 11th, GMHL Lost division quarter-final
2009–10 42 20 18 - 4 178 207 44 6th, GMHL Lost quarter-final
Bobcaygeon Bucks
2010–11 42 23 18 - 1 212 181 47 6th, GMHL Lost qualifier
2011–12 42 8 34 - 0 131 256 16 13th, GMHL Lost bye round
2012–13 42 16 25 1 0 158 214 33 11th, GMHL Lost division semi-final
2013–14 42 11 27 - 4 169 290 26 16th, GMHL Lost division quarter-final
Colborne Cramahe Hawks
2014–15 9 1 8 0 0 17 53 2 DNF, CIHL Did not play
22 6 16 0 0 35 110 12 4th, WUHL Lost semi-finals

Playoffs

2008

King Wild defeated Douro Dukes 4-games-to-none in bye round2009

South Muskoka Shield defeated Brock Bucks 3-games-to-none in division quarter-final2010

Bradford Rattlers defeated Brock Bucks 3-games-to-none in quarter-final2011

Deseronto Storm defeated Bobcaygeon Bucks 2-games-to-none in qualifier2012

Elliot Lake Bobcats defeated Bobcaygeon Bucks 2-games-to-1 in bye round2013

Bobcaygeon Bucks defeated Toronto Attack 3-games-to-2 in division quarter-final

Bradford Rattlers defeated Bobcaygeon Bucks 3-games-to-none in division semi-final2014

Bobcaygeon Bucks beat Sturgeon Falls Lumberjacks 9-8 in qualifier

Seguin Huskies defeated Bobcaygeon Bucks 3-games-to-none in division quarter-final2015

St. Charles North Stars defeated Colborne Cramahe Hawks 2-games-to-none in semi-final

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Junior A hockey coming to Colborne. 13 March 2014. Inside Belleville.
  2. Web site: Junior A hockey finds a home in Colborne. 29 October 2014. Northumberland News.
  3. Web site: There's a lot that's new about the Hawks but the results remain the same. 25 December 2014. Inside Belleville.