Ontario Hockey Association

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The Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) is the governing body for the majority of junior and amateur ice hockey teams in the Canadian province of Ontario . The OHA, along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF). Other sanctioning associations include the OHF, the Ottawa District Hockey Association and Hockey Northwestern Ontario . The OHA is made up of 4 main tier classes of junior hockey, which are managed by the OHA: Junior A , Junior B , Junior C , and Junior Development . The OHA also runs an amateur hockey league , the Major League Hockey .

In 1980, the OHA gave up the highest ranking of the two-part Junior A area, which had been divided since 1970 and which was known as the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League . This league now operates under the name Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Although not a licensed member of the OHA, the OHL is affiliated with the OHA and the Ontario Hockey Federation .

history

founding

The OHA was founded in 1890 to direct the sport of amateur ice hockey in Ontario. The founding idea came from Arthur Stanley, the son of the Governor General of Canada , Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby . Arthur Stanley himself played for the Rideau Rebels from Ottawa . In the course of test matches against other teams in Ontario, he convinced the team responsible to hold a meeting in 1890 to discuss his idea. And so on November 27, 1890, ice hockey club representatives from all over the Ontario Province formed the Ontario Hockey Association at the Queen's Hotel in Toronto .

The first board consisted of:

  • A. Morgan Cosby, Toronto Victoria Club , President
  • John Barron, vice president
  • Henry Ward, Vice President
  • CK Temple, Toronto St. George's Club , Treasurer
  • CR Hamilton, Toronto Victoria Club , Secretary

Early history

At the beginning there was only one amateur league in the OHA. It included teams from Ottawa, Kingston , Toronto and London . In the first few years, the schedule of this league consisted of a series of elimination playoffs , which led to single-game final playoffs. In the first three years, the Ottawa Hockey Club won the championship, the Cosby Cup . In 1894 there were disagreements between the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Ontario Hockey Association over the location of the finals, which is why Ottawa left the league. This split eventually led to the formation of the Ottawa District Hockey Association , which then directed most of the ice hockey games in eastern Ontario.

Stanley Cup

From 1893 to 1908, the OHA teams were able to play for the Stanley Cup . The teams competing for the Stanley Cup included:

After the leagues of the teams began to professionalize with players over 20 years old, it became impossible for the amateur teams to compete in winning the Stanley Cup. The OHA teams have played for this trophy since the Allan Cup was launched in 1908. In the same year, the Ontario Professional Hockey League started in the professional field. The champions of the OPHL were still eligible to participate in the Stanley Cup games. Today's amateur league of the OHA is made up of the 6 teams of Major League Hockey .

Junior ice hockey

In 1892, the junior level was introduced for the game at a lower level. At first this area was not restricted to an age of the players under 20 years as it is today; this only happened when the OHA introduced an intermidiate level in 1897 as a link between the junior and amateur areas . In 1919 the Memorial Cup , initially referred to as the OHA Memorial Cup , was introduced. First he was won by the team at the University of Toronto Schools (UTS). It is the trophy for the Canadian National Junior Ice Hockey Championship.

The top area of ​​junior ice hockey was until the founding of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), which was formed in 1980 as an independent organization under the direction of Hockey Canada , under the direction of the OHA. The Ontario Hockey League took over as a legitimate corporation hosting the tournament games for the Memorial Cup and later became a member of the Canadian Hockey League as a junior league .

The OHA remained the umbrella organization for several amateur and junior ice hockey leagues within its legal area of ​​responsibility.

Intermediate level

In 1897 an intermediate level was introduced between the junior and amateur levels to organize teams at a lower level than the amateurs.

The first champion was the team from Berlin , which defeated the Frontenacs 3-0.

The intermediate sector was abolished in 1983 by the OHA. The top league at this level, the Major Intermediate A Hockey League , was split between the OHA Senior A Hockey League and the various Senior B leagues. Nowadays the control manual refers to the former intermediate-level following the OHA: Intermediate A level as a Senior AA , Intermediate B as Senior A , Intermediate C as Senior B and Intermediate D loop as Senior C . The champions of each individual classification are listed in the OHA rules manual, with the exception of those of the Senior C , although their trophy name is entered.

The highest symbolic trophy for Canadian ice hockey in the intermediate area was the Hardy Cup . Only three teams from the province of Ontario have ever won the Hardy Cup, which was played from 1968 to 1990. Only two teams from the OHA managed to do this: the Georgetown Raiders in 1982 and the Dundas Real McCoys in 1986. The third team from Ontario to win the Hardy Cup were the Embrun Panthers from the Ottawa District Hockey Association .

Jurisdiction

Authorized by Hockey Canada , the Ontario Hockey Association directs amateur and junior ice hockey games in the province of Ontario, which is not managed by Hockey Northwestern Ontario , the Ottawa District Hockey Association, and the Northern Ontario Hockey Association . This does not only include the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League and the Western Ontario Athletic Association (in the amateur hockey sector), as they are not affiliated with Hockey Canada and are outside its legal area.

The Ottawa District Hockey Association represents the eastern portion of the province of Ontario and includes Lanark County , Renfrew County, and Leeds Counties ; The city of Gananoque does not belong to this, however . Hockey Northwestern Ontario heads the area in the northwest of the province of Ontario west of the 85th degree west longitude .

Notable arguments

1974 Sutherland Cup

In the 1974 OHA Junior B final for the Sutherland Cup , the Bramalea Blues from the Metro Junior B Hockey League faced the Hamilton Red Wings from the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League in a best-of-seven series . The Blues won the overly tough first game, but left the final series before the start of the second game, claiming the excessive harshness of the players from Hamilton and claiming that their team had received a bomb threat in case it came to Hamilton would return. The President of the OHA, Frank Doherty , had then offered the Owen Sound Grays of the Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League to take Bramalea's place in the final (this team had previously been eliminated in the semi-finals against the Blues). However, this idea was not well received by the other members of the OHA. Hamilton was eventually awarded victory in the final series, but their championship was never engraved on the Sutherland Cup.

Suspensions in the Junior B 1986

Concerned about the increasing violence in ice hockey, the Ontario Hockey Association in 1986 suspended the Streetsville Derbies and the Brantford Classics for all game operations for the 1986/87 season. The suspension of the derbies was related to a stick accident in the last quarterfinal game against the Nobleton Devils . A Nobleton player was hit in the back of the head by a two-handed stick blow, which also hit a linesman and injured his eyelid. Brantford's suspension related to a brutal brawl during a play-off game against the St. Catharines Falcons .

Gray-Bruce Junior C Final 1987

A triumph in the Gray-Bruce Junior League , now known as the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League , in 1987 meant the Hanover Barons ' third league championship in a row of nine championships. While winning their third regular season title in a row, the Barons also faced the Port Elgin Bears in the final for the third year in a row . After beating them for the first time in five games in a best-of-seven series and the second time even in a 4-game sweep , the big and strong players of the Barons played in the third final series in an aggressive one Way. After the second game, the general manager of the Bears announced to the press that his team would not continue the series due to the dangerous game played by the Barons. In this second game, many of the Bears' players suffered several injuries in a brawl and their parents refused to allow them to participate in the final series. The Barons were awarded the league title, they then also won the quarterfinals of the Provincial Junior C Championship against the Essex 73's from the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League , but then lost the semifinals against the Norwich Merchants from the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League .

The OHA initiative Tomorrow's Game for the reorganization of junior ice hockey

Since the 2005/06 season, the OHA has been looking for a method to reorganize and repopulate junior ice hockey for the entire province of Ontario. Even before the 2009/10 season, the OHA tried to carry out the first stage of this endeavor. The first attempt was to move the teams from the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League (SOJHL) into the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League (WOJCHL), the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League (GLJHL) and the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League ( NDJCHL). The SOJHL, a group of teams from the London area , are all former Junior D teams, all of whom had previously tried to legitimize themselves as Junior C teams. Although the SOJHL teams are still classified as Junior D in the OHA , they have long since shed the Junior D designation . In 2009, the general managers of SOJHL, WOJCHL, GLJHL and NDJCHL conducted a vote on how the OHA should proceed with regard to a merger. Ultimately, nothing else was implemented, because a group of teams from SOJHL and NDJCHL actively blocked every measure. This was due to a group of teams from both leagues, which had a strong overlap in the catchment area of ​​their players, which would have meant a narrowing of their talent pools.

During the 2009/10 season, the OHA announced that the second stage of its Tomorrow's Game initiative would start at the beginning of the 2010/11 season. The plan was for Junior A and Junior B to be reunited and for the best of these teams to be promoted to a new "Premiere League". In 1993 the Metro Junior B Hockey League and the Central Junior B Hockey League , two OHA junior B leagues from the Toronto area , were officially recognized by the OHA as Junior A leagues. The three remaining leagues, the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League , the Western Ontario Hockey League and the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League , which compared to their two sister leagues from the Toronto area had performed much more successfully in the competition for the Sutherland Cup , were each other left to yourself. In 2007, these three leagues from southwest Ontario decided to merge into a super league consisting of 27 teams , the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL). They did so in the hopes of eventually being promoted to the Junior A division in an attempt to stop recruiting from the 37 teams in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (OPJHL). At this point in time the debate was still raging about which of these two leagues was ultimately the better, the GOJHL or the OPJHL. In 2009, the OHA asked members of these two leagues to submit their applications for the Premier League by making a $ 25,000 deposit. A number of teams from the GOJHL applied to join the planned Premier League , but the entire core of the Toronto area junior A leagues refused to join. The Junior A teams eventually made an appeal to the Ontario Hockey Federation to try to stop the restructuring. The OHF approved this appellation, but did not support it. The OHF found that the OHA acted lawfully in restructuring Junior A , B , C and D into Premier , Division I and Division II , as long as it was aware that the new Premier League would always follow the guidelines of Hockey Canada is still Junior A , and Division I and Division II continue to be Junior B and Junior C under these guidelines . The OHF also found that the OHA was entitled to recategorize its teams on the basis of Section B46 of the OHA statutes. The only partial aspect of the appellation that the OHF recognized was that, according to Section C7 of the OHA Statutes, which supplements Section B46, a change in the classification must be recognized by the leagues concerned before it can be implemented. The OHF Appeals Committee added, however, that the OHA was entitled to remove section C7 of its statutes if it so wished and consequently to proceed with its restructuring plans.

Since the spring of 2010, however, the OHA has not made any major announcements about the future of relevant planning.

Leagues

Junior A / Junior B

Junior C

Amateurs

Please Note: The Ontario Hockey League is not a member of the Ontario Hockey Association but has a working relationship with it.

Former leagues

Juniors

Amateurs

Championship trophies

OHA / OHF Senior "AAA" - J. Ross Robertson Cup
Major Junior - J. Ross Robertson Cup
OPJHL - Frank L. Buckland Trophy
Junior "B" - Sutherland Cup
Junior "C" - Clarence Schmalz Cup

Championship trophies no longer played

Senior "B" - Ken McMillan Cup
Senior "C" - WA Hewitt Cup
SOJAHL - Jack Oakes Memorial Trophy
Super "C" - George S. Dudley Cup
Senior - Cosby Cup

See also

literature

  • Scott Young: 100 years of dropping the puck . McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1989, ISBN 0-7710-9093-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toronto Star. May 16, 1986. Page D14.
  2. ↑ Toronto Star. July 8, 1986. Page F08.
  3. ↑ Toronto Star. February 27, 1986. Page H11.
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  6. ↑ http://woodstockrenegades.jkstaylor.com/news-040209.htm
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