Tillsonburg Thunder

Hockey team
team = Tillsonburg Thunder

logosize = 140px
city = Tillsonburg, Ontario
league = WOAA Senior Hockey League
division = South
founded = 2001
colours = Black and Gold
arena = Tillsonburg Community Centre
coach = TBA
GM = Dan Hambleton
name1 = Tillsonburg Vipers
dates1 = 2001-2008
name2 = Tillsonburg Thunder
dates2 = 2008-Pres
The Tillsonburg Thunder are a Senior ice hockey team based in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League.

History

The Tillsonburg Vipers were founded in 2001 as a Senior "AAA" team in the Ontario Hockey Association's Major League Hockey.

In 2003-04, the Vipers made the league final, but lost to the Aylmer Blues 4-games-to-2.

Tillsonburg's best season was the 2005-06 season. After finishing the regular season in second place with 17 wins in 30 games, the Vipers knocked off the Cambridge Hornets 4-games-to-3 to make the league finals. In the league final, the Vipers fell to the Dundas Real McCoys 4-games-to-3.

The MLH fell apart in 2008, just after the Brantford Blast won the league's first ever Allan Cup. The team filled the gap when the disgruntled Cambridge Hornets left the MLH, the collegiate Windsor St. Clair Saints, walked away from the league. The Vipers decided it was their time to leave as well and applied to join the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League. The WOAA is an independent league with no connections to the Ontario Hockey Association. It classifies itself as Senior "AA", and allows for both a Senior "AA" and Senior "A" championship come playoff time. On May 14, 2008, the WOAA granted expansion to the Tillsonburg Vipers. [http://www.tillsonburgnews.com/Sports/400813.html]

The first ever Tillsonburg WOAA game took place on October 4, 2008, as the Thunder defeated the Goderich Pirates 6-5 in overtime in Tillsonburg.

eason-by-Season Standings

References

External links

* [http://www.tillsonburgthunder.ca/ Thunder Homepage]