Markham Thunder

Markham Thunder
founding	1998
history	Brampton Canadettes (until 1998) Brampton Thunder (1998–2007) Brampton Canadettes-Thunder ( 2007– around 2010/2011) Brampton Thunder (around 2010 / 2011–2017) Markham Thunder (since 2017)
Stadion	Thornhill Community Center
Location	Markham , Ontario , Canada
Team colors	  
league	Central Ontario Women's Hockey League (1998–1999) National Women's Hockey League (1999–2007) Canadian Women's Hockey League (since 2007)
Head coach	Jim Jackson
Team captain	Jocelyne Larocque
General manager	Chelsea Purcell
Clarkson Cups	2017/18

The Markham Thunder are a Canadian women's ice hockey team from Markham , Ontario that has been a member of the Canadian Women's Hockey League since 2007 and was originally founded in Brampton . The Thunder go back to the Brampton Canadettes , founded in the 1960s , a girls and women team that has hosted one of the largest women's ice hockey tournaments in the world every year since it was founded. In 1998, the Brampton Thunder was founded as a franchise of the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League . Over the years, the Thunder became one of the most successful women's clubs in Canada. After the NWHL disbanded in 2007, the Thunder were among the founding members of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. In 2017 the club moved from Brampton to Markham within the Greater Toronto Area .

In their history, the Thunder won each NWHL Championship, the Canadian Amateur Championship ( Esso Women's Nationals ) and the CWHL Championship.

history

The Brampton Canadettes were founded in 1963 as an amateur team for women and girls of all ages and began playing in the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League in 1964 . In 1967 the Canadettes conducted the first Dominion Ladies Hockey Tournament , in which 22 teams took part. The oldest participant at the time was 65 years old. By 1986, 19 years later, the tournament had grown to 160 participating teams, including teams from the Netherlands, West Germany, Finland and Denmark, making it the largest women's ice hockey tournament in the world.

The 1998 Winter Olympics featured women's ice hockey for the first time in the Olympic program and Cassie Campbell , who is from Brampton, won the gold medal. This success prompted the then Mayoress of Brampton, Sue Fennell, to form a new team for the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League, which is now senior AAA . Then the annual budget stood at 250,000 $ . Then the COWHL was converted under the leadership of Fennell into the National Women's Hockey League and expanded first to the province of Québec , and later to the Canadian west coast. Fennell later also became president of the NWHL.

In their first season, the Thunder won the Central Canadian Championship after finishing second in the Western Division play-offs . In the 2004/05 season, the Thunder took first place in the regular season as well as in the play-offs and thus won the NWHL Champions Cup . A year later, the Thunder reached the national (amateur) championship title at the Esso Women's Nationals . After the 2006/07 season , the NWHL stopped playing and was replaced by the newly formed Canadian Women's Hockey League . In this, the team played at times as Brampton Canadettes-Thunder to remember their origins. In 2008 the Thunder reached the play-off final and won the CWHL championship as the winner of the final. After the 2016/17 season , the club moved to Markham .

successes

NWHL

• Central Division: 2005
• Championship: 2005

CWHL

• Central Division: 2008
• Championship: 2008

Esso Women's Nationals

• Canadian amateur champion: 2006

Season statistics

season	Sp	S.	N	U / OTN	T	GT	Points	placement	Play-offs
1998/99	40	30th	7th	3	203	76	63	place 2	Central Ontario Championship
1999/00	40	29	5	6th	208	64	64	place 2	Western Division Finals
2000/01	40	30th	7th	3	223	82	63	place 2	1 round
2001/02	30th	8th	14th	8th	223	82	63	place 3	1 round
2002/03	36	27	9	0	152	71	54	place 2	1 round
2003/04	36	28	6th	2	190	72	58	place 2	1 round
2004/05	36	30th	4th	2	165	70	63	1st place	1 round
2005/06	36	19th	12	5	113	97	43	place 3	Runner-up
2006/07	16	8th	8th	0	71	66	16	1st place	NWHL champion
2007/08	30th	22nd	7th	1	111	59	45	1st place	CWHL champion
2008/09	26th	19th	6th	1	136	65	39	place 2	1 round
2009/10	29	9	19th	1	80	82	27	4th place	2nd round
2010/11	26th	19th	6th	1	111	69	39	place 2	1 round
2011/12	27	18th	7th	2	102	80	40	place 3	Runner-up
2012/13	24	10	12	2	71	83	22nd	place 3
2013/14	24	5	16	3	43	99	13	5th place
2014/15	24	6th	16	2	46	98	14th	5th place
2015/16	24	19th	7th	1	91	67	33	place 3	Semifinals
2016/17	24	13	10	1	76	63	26th	place 3
2017/18

Legend for season statistics: GP or SP = total games; W or S = victories; L or N = defeats; T or U = tie; OTS = wins after extra time ( overtime ); OTN or OL = overtime defeats; SOS = shootout wins; SOL or SON = Shootout Losses; P = points; Pct% = wins in%; GF or T = goals; GA or GT = goals conceded

Well-known former players

• Gillian Apps
• Delaney Collins
• Lori Dupuis
• Molly Engstrom
• Jayna Hefford
• Kathleen Kauth
• Cherie Piper
• Florence Schelling
• Vicky Sunohara

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  Gillian Apps

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  Jayna Hefford

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  Vicky Sunohara

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  Kathleen Kauth

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  Laura Hosier

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  Lori Dupuis

Web links

• official website
• Team profile at eliteprospects.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History - Brampton Canadettes Girls Hockey Association. In: bramptoncanadettes.com. Retrieved March 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} The history of the Brampton Thunder - The CWHL's relocation to Markham will be bittersweet. pensionplanpuppets.com, July 12, 2017, accessed March 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ City of Markham welcomes CWHL's Markham Thunder. In: markham.ca. July 11, 2017, accessed March 12, 2018 .