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The Ontario Hockey Association originally blocked the $500,000 sale of the IceHawks to prevent DeDobbelaer from moving the team to Brantford, or promoting the 99ers to Jr. A and demoting the IceHawks in Milton to Jr. B. Complicating matters was the fact that Brad Grant who previously owned the team was OHA chairman at the time of the proposed ...
In Spring 2013, the plan would unceremoniously die, but a Brantford group that had decided to apply for entry transferred their request to the Mid-Western Conference. [3] Their request was accepted [4] and the ownership group named themselves the 99'ers in honour of Wayne Gretzky and the Brantford Minor Hockey Association. [5]
The King Rebellion is a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Junior Hockey League based in King, Ontario. The team relocated to King Township after the 2023–24 OJHL season from Brantford, Ontario where it was known as the Brantford 99ers .
[citation needed] In his youth, he played in the 1985 and 1986 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Brantford. [1] Gretzky grew up playing minor hockey in Brantford, Ontario for the Brantford Classics of the OMHA.
Coyne compared Fogarty to Wayne Gretzky, who had also grown up in Brantford, saying "[Gretzky's] game was outsmarting everybody else. Fogarty's game was outperforming everybody else." [2] Fogarty played in the 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Brantford. [3]
The UHL was originally formed in 1991 as the Colonial Hockey League and had teams in Brantford, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; Flint, Michigan; St. Thomas, Ontario; and Thunder Bay, Ontario; the avowed goal of the league organizers was to fill the low-level niche in the Great Lakes area abandoned by the original International Hockey League as the latter league engaged in upmarket expansion.
He played 102 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings from 1983 to 1986. [1] Hachborn grew up playing hockey with his childhood friend Wayne Gretzky. [2] As a youth, he played in the 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Brantford. [3]
Szczechura grew up playing hockey in his hometown of Brantford playing minor hockey for both the Brantford Saints and Brant Bandits AAA hockey programs. [citation needed] He played in the 1999 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with Brantford. [3]