Kitchener Canucks

Hockey team | CAN_eng = 1|
team = Kitchener Canucks
city = Kitchener, Ontario
league = Ontario Hockey Association
operated = 1954-1956
arena = Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
name1 = Kitchener Greenshirts
dates1 = 1951-54
name2 = Kitchener Canucks
dates2 = 1954-56
name3 = Peterborough Petes | dates3 = 1956-Present
|The Kitchener Canucks were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association from 1954 to 1956. The team was based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and played home games at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.

History

The Kitchener Greenshirts changed names becoming the Kitchener Canucks for the 1954-55 season. The Canucks finished last place in the OHA their first year in operation.

Stan Baliuk helped the team finish second place in the league in 1955-56, winning the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy as the top scorer that year, with 31 goals, 73 assists, totalling 104 points.

Canuck's defenceman Kent Douglas would go onto win the Calder Trophy as Rookie of the Year in the 1962-63 NHL season, when he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Willie O'Ree would become the first black player in the NHL, playing as a winger for the Boston Bruins.

Despite moving up in the standings their second year, they did not make enough money to recover from the financial woes of a very poor first season. In 1956 the team moved to Peterborough, Ontario becoming the Peterborough TPT Petes.

NHL Alumni

*Stan Baliuk *Wayne Connelly

*Kent Douglas *Ted McCaskill

*Willie O'Ree *Irv Spencer

*Tom Thurlby *Howie Young

Yearly Results