Colborne Cramahe Hawks

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Colborne Cramahe Hawks
Colborne Hawks logo.jpeg
City Colborne, Ontario, Canada
League World United Hockey League
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007)
Folded2015;9 years ago (2015)
Home arena Keeler Centre
Colours Black, Red, and White
   
General managerMike Jeschke
Head coachMike Jeschke
Media The Sports Cave
Franchise history
2007–2008Douro Dukes
2008–2010Brock Bucks
2010–2014Bobcaygeon Bucks
2014–2015Colborne Cramahe Hawks

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.

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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

SeasonGPWLTOTLGFGAPtsResultsPlayoffs
Douro Dukes
2007–0842240-0108392413th, GMHLLost bye round
Brock Bucks
2008–09431526-21912423211th, GMHLLost division quarter-final
2009–10422018-4178207446th, GMHLLost quarter-final
Bobcaygeon Bucks
2010–11422318-1212181476th, GMHLLost qualifier
2011–1242834-01312561613th, GMHLLost bye round
2012–13421625101582143311th, GMHLLost division semi-final
2013–14421127-41692902616th, GMHLLost division quarter-final
Colborne Cramahe Hawks
2014–159180017532DNF, CIHLDid not play
226160035110124th, WUHLLost semi-finals

Playoffs

2008

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

2009

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

2010

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

2011

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

2012

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

2013

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-final

2014

Bobcaygeon Bucks beat Sturgeon Falls Lumberjacks 9-8 in qualifier
Seguin Huskies defeated Bobcaygeon Bucks 3-games-to-none in division quarter-final

2015

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

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References

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