Windsor Spitfires

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Windsor Spitfires
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

Memorial Cups


J. Ross Robertson Cup
Hamilton Spectator Trophy
  • 1987-88 102 points
  • 2008-09 115 points



Wayne Gretzky Trophy
  • 2008-09
  • 2009-10
Division Trophies
  • 1979-80 Emms Trophy , Emms Division
  • 1987-88 Emms Trophy, Emms Division
  • 2008-09 Bumbacco Trophy , West Division
  • 2009-10 Bumbacco Trophy, West Division

player

First-round draft picks

Draft year player as team
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

Blocked jersey numbers

In addition, the following are considered honored jersey numbers, but they are still in circulation:

Web links

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