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The Sudbury Northern Wolves came into the league in 2000 and were present up until they announced an affiliation agreement with the Ontario Hockey League's Sudbury Wolves midway through the 2005–06 season. The Sudbury Northern Wolves were then re-branded as the Sudbury Jr. Wolves. The team went on to break league records that season.
The OHL - then known as the Ontario Hockey Association and later the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League - arrived in Sudbury in 1972 when local businessman Bud Burke, who was a shareholder in the NOJHL Wolves, purchased the Niagara Falls Flyers from Leighton "Hap" Emms and moved the team to Northern Ontario.
Team League Tavistock Braves: Provincial Junior Hockey League: Thamesford Trojans: Provincial Junior Hockey League: Thunder Bay Bandits: Lakehead Junior Hockey League: Thunder Bay North Stars: Superior International Junior Hockey League: Thunder Bay Northern Hawks: Lakehead Junior Hockey League: Timmins Rock: Northern Ontario Junior Hockey ...
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League: Operated: 1976-1993: Affiliate: Sudbury Wolves ... Nickel Centre Cubs: The Sudbury Cubs were a Junior "A" ice hockey team ...
Finally, in 2005, the league's most dominant team in history and the last remaining shred of the original NOJHL, Rayside-Balfour, folded. They did not go without leaving their mark. Early in the 2005–06 season, the Sudbury Northern Wolves became heavily involved with the OHL's Sudbury Wolves and the Northern Wolves became the Sudbury Jr ...
The team was based in Sudbury, Ontario, and played home games at the Sudbury Arena. Prior to becoming professional, the Wolves played as an amateur senior ice hockey team in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA) from 1951 to 1957, and the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) Senior division from 1957 to 1959.
He sold the team to a local business consortium for $17,500 in 1956, [8] and subsequently served a short stint as coach of the Indianapolis Chiefs in the International Hockey League, [9] before returning to Sudbury to launch a new team, the Sudbury Combines, in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association's senior division. [10]
The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Association was founded in 1962 at the Caswell Espanola Hotel in Espanola, Ontario. [1] Founded with five Northern Ontario communities and one Northern Michigan team, the league was founded in an effort to stop the flow of Northern Ontario talent from going to the OHA Junior A Hockey League and the various Junior B leagues. [2]