Bramalea Blues
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| Bramalea Blues | |
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| City: | Brampton, Ontario |
| League: | Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League |
| Division: | West |
| Founded: | 1972 |
| Home Arena: | Victoria Park Arena |
| Colours: | Blue, Yellow, and White |
| Head Coach: | Gord Fournier |
| General Manager: | Laura Barker |
| Parent club(s): | Brampton Battalion |
The Bramalea Blues are a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League but also used to be a part of the Metro Junior A Hockey League. They joined the OPJHL in 1995.
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[edit] History
Formed in 1972, the Blues joined the Metro Junior "B" league. The Metro had just been curtailed by the Ontario Hockey Association as the many of their top teams were moved to the newly created OHA Junior "A" league. The Blues won the Sutherland Cup in 1975 as OHA Junior "B" Champions.
In 1991, the Metro league (along with the Blues) went Junior "A". The team stayed with the Metro until 1995 when a mass exodus of teams made the jump to the OPJHL. In 1999, the Blues won the Buckland Cup as league champions and the Dudley Hewitt Cup as Central Canadian Champions. They fell short at the Royal Bank Cup.
[edit] 1999 Royal Bank Cup
The Blues opened up the Royal Bank Cup 1999 with a 4-2 victory over the British Columbia Hockey League's Vernon Vipers -- the Doyle Cup Champions. The Blues then took out the Anavet Cup Champions, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Estevan Bruins 4-3. The Blues then beat the host Yorkton Terriers by a score of 5-1. The Blues had alread clinched first place in the round robin and floated through a 5-1 loss to the Fred Page Cup Champion Charlottetown Abbies of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League.
The slack effort did not pay off. The Blues entered the Semi-final as the favourite to win the Royal Bank Cup, but were upset by the Vernon Vipers by a score of 3-2. The Vipers went on to win the Cup, and the favourite Blues were left with a long and unhappy ride home from Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
[edit] Past 1999
After the Royal Bank Cup upset loss to the Vernon Vipers, the Blues played like a team jinxed. With only one winning season in the last seven, the Blues have never been the same.
Despite initial optimism, at the halfway point of the 2006-07 season the Blues are sitting at a dismal 1 win, 23 losses, and an overtime loss. As of November 18, the Blues are in the basement of the OPJHL and are in danger of missing the playoffs again.
[edit] Season-by-Season Results
| Season | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | P | Results | Playoffs | |
| 1989-90 | 44 | 26 | 10 | 8 | - | 235 | 155 | 60 | 4th Metro B | ||
| 1990-91 | 44 | 26 | 10 | 8 | - | 233 | 171 | 60 | 3rd Metro B | ||
| 1991-92 | 44 | 20 | 21 | 3 | - | 238 | 233 | 43 | 5th Metro A | ||
| 1992-93 | 48 | 22 | 22 | 4 | - | 251 | 243 | 48 | 7th Metro A | ||
| 1993-94 | 50 | 20 | 22 | 8 | - | 262 | 295 | 48 | 9th Metro A | Lost Quarter-final | |
| 1994-95 | 50 | 17 | 31 | 2 | - | 199 | 249 | 36 | 12th Metro A | ||
| 1995-96 | 50 | 37 | 10 | 3 | - | 292 | 142 | 77 | 3rd OPJHL | ||
| 1996-97 | 51 | 36 | 12 | 3 | - | 263 | 154 | 76 | 4th OPJHL | ||
| 1997-98 | 51 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 244 | 182 | 72 | 4th OPJHL | ||
| 1998-99 | 51 | 38 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 296 | 158 | 83 | 3rd OPJHL | Won League, Won DHC | |
| 1999-00 | 49 | 10 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 142 | 217 | 26 | 33rd OPJHL | ||
| 2000-01 | 49 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 182 | 206 | 44 | 28th OPJHL | ||
| 2001-02 | 49 | 25 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 224 | 209 | 55 | 14th OPJHL | ||
| 2002-03 | 49 | 10 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 168 | 282 | 24 | 31st OPJHL | ||
| 2003-04 | 49 | 14 | 30 | 2 | 3 | 137 | 223 | 33 | 30th OPJHL | ||
| 2004-05 | 49 | 4 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 381 | 9 | 34th OPJHL | ||
| 2005-06 | 49 | 10 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 127 | 278 | 23 | 32nd OPJHL | DNQ | |
| 2006-07 | See "The Teams" for up-to-date 2006-07 standings. | ||||||||||
