- Little Britain Merchants
Hockey team
team = Little Britain Merchants
logosize = 135px
city =Little Britain, Ontario
league =Central Junior C Hockey League
founded = 1978
arena =Little Britain Community Centre
colours =Red andWhite
coach =Matt Muir
GM =Kerri Phillips
parentclub =Lindsay Muskies
farmclub =
|The Little Britain Merchants are a Canadian Junior
ice hockey team based in Little Britain,Ontario ,Canada . They play in theCentral Ontario Junior C Hockey League of theOntario Hockey Association .History
The Little Britain Merchants were founded in 1978 as members of the Southern Counties Junior D Hockey League.
In 1984, the Merchants made the jump to the Central Lakeshore Junior C Hockey League. Two year later, the league merged with the Quinte-St. Lawrence Junior C Hockey League and formed the
Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League . The expansion of the Merchants was to fill the void left by the folding of theStouffville Clippers .In the 1997-98 season, the Merchants finished first overall in the Central Ontario league regular season with twenty-seven wins in forty games. The Merchants went on to win the their first and only league championship that year.
The 2005-06 seasons saw the Little Britain Merchants finish the regular season in second place overall. In the league semi-final, the Merchants drew the third seeded
Uxbridge Bruins . The series went the distance with the Bruins pulling out the game 7 victory to clinch the series 4-games-to-3 and ruin any form of Merchant playoff run.The 2006-07 regular season ended with the Merchants finishing in third place overall. Their semi-final opponent would prove to be the second seeded
Port Perry Mojacks . In a long, hard fought series, the two teams pushed on to the bitter end where the Mojacks came out victorious winning game 7 and the series 4-games-to-3 to advance to the league final.Season-by-Season Results
External links
* [http://www.littlebritainjrcmerchants.ca/ Merchants Webpage]
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