Windsor Spitfires
Windsor Spitfires | |
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founding | 1971 |
history |
Windsor Spitfires 1971–1984 Windsor Compuware Spitfires 1984–1989 Windsor Spitfires since 1989 |
Stadion | WFCU Center |
Location | Windsor , Ontario |
Team colors | blue, red, white |
league | Ontario Hockey League |
Conference | Western Conference |
division | West Division |
Head coach | Bob Boughner |
General manager | Warren Rychel |
Memorial Cups | 2009 , 2010 , 2017 |
J. Ross Robertson Cups | 1987/88 , 2008/09 , 2009/10 |
The Windsor Spitfires are a Canadian ice hockey team based in Windsor , Ontario . The team was founded in 1971 as a junior team. It has played in one of Canada's three highest junior ice hockey leagues, the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) , since 1975 . From 1945 to 1953, a junior team called Spitfires played in Windsor.
history
After a few years in youth hockey, the Spitfires played as a junior team from 1945 to 1953 in the Ontario Hockey Association. With Al Arbor , Glenn Hall , Marcel Pronovost and Terry Sawchuk , four later members of the Hockey Hall of Fame played on the team.
After the re-establishment in 1971, the team played four years in the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League . There the Jack Oakes Trophy was won in 1973 and the team was able to finish the regular season as the best team for the next two years.
In 1975 the Spitfires were resumed with the expansion of the OMJHL (today's OHL) after 22 years of abstinence.
In 1980 the team won the division title for the first time. However, the Peterborough Petes stood in the way of a title as champion of the OHL. In 1984 the team was bought by Peter Karmanos junior and renamed Windsor Compuware Spitfires . In 1988 the Spitfires qualified as winners of the OHL for the Memorial Cup and reached the final there. Here the team failed because of the Medicine Hat Tigers . After Karmanos sold the team to Steve Riolo in 1989, the name change was reversed.
Logos
successes
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player
First-round draft picks
Draft year | player | as | team |
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1980 | Paul Gagné | 19th | Colorado Rockies |
1982 | Paul Lawless | 14th | Hartford Whalers |
1988 | Darrin Shannon | 4th | Pittsburgh Penguins |
1992 | Todd Warriner | 4th | Québec Nordiques |
1992 | Cory Stillman | 6th | Calgary Flames |
1994 | Ed Jovanovski | 1. | Florida panthers |
2000 | Steve Ott | 25th | Dallas Stars |
2001 | Jason Spezza | 2. | Ottawa Senators |
2001 | Tim Gleason | 23. | Ottawa Senators |
2005 | Steve Downie | 29 | Philadelphia Flyers |
2008 | Josh Bailey | 9. | New York Islanders |
2008 | Greg Nemisz | 25th | Calgary Flames |
2009 | Ryan Ellis | 11. | Nashville Predators |
2010 | Taylor Hall | 1. | Edmonton Oilers |
2010 | Cam Fowler | 12. | Anaheim Ducks |
2011 | Jack Campbell | 11. | Dallas Stars |
2013 | Kerby Rychel | 19th | Columbus Blue Jackets |
2014 | Joshua Ho-Sang | 28. | New York Islanders |
2016 | Mikhail Sergachev | 9. | Montreal Canadiens |
2016 | Logan Brown | 11. | Ottawa Senators |
2016 | Logan Stanley | 18th | Winnipeg Jets |
Other former players
1945-1953
1975 - today
- Michael Clarke
- Peter DeBoer
- Christian Fischer
- Todd Gill
- Adam Graves
- Philipp Grubauer
- Adam Henrique
- Claude Julien
- Zack Kassian
- Slater Koekkoek
- Tom Kühnhackl
- Michael Leighton
- Brendan Lemieux
- Paul Maurice
- Roland Melanson
- Michal Neuvirth
- Richard Pánik
- Joel Quenneville
- Michael Rupp
- Mickey Renaud
- Ahren Nittel Spylo
- Travis Scott
- DJ Smith
- Jamie Storr
- Austin Watson
- Kyle Wellwood
Blocked jersey numbers
- 9 - Adam Graves
- 15 - Ernie Godden
- 18 - Mickey Renaud (from September 2008)
- 23 - Scott Miller
In addition, the following are considered honored jersey numbers, but they are still in circulation:
- 4 - Marcel Pronovost
- 6 - Joel Quenneville
- 11 - Gordon Haidy