Little Britain Merchants
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| City: | Little Britain, Ontario |
| League: | Central Junior C Hockey League |
| Founded: | 1978 |
| Home Arena: | Little Britain Community Centre |
| Colors: | Red and White |
| Head Coach: | Matt Muir |
| General Manager: | Kerri Phillips |
| Parent club(s): | Lindsay Muskies |
The Little Britain Merchants are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Little Britain, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.
[edit] 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 the Stouffville 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.
[edit] Season-by-Season Results
| Season | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | P | Results | Playoffs |
| 1987-88 | 32 | 15 | 15 | 2 | - | 148 | 162 | 32 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 1988-89 | 40 | 20 | 14 | 6 | - | 181 | 161 | 46 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 1989-90 | 36 | 9 | 23 | 4 | - | 163 | 218 | 22 | 7th COJCHL | |
| 1990-91 | 36 | 18 | 17 | 1 | - | 192 | 156 | 37 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 1991-92 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 196 | 164 | 44 | 2nd COJCHL | |
| 1992-93 | 40 | 25 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 240 | 178 | 53 | 1st COJCHL | |
| 1993-94 | 30 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 122 | 136 | 24 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 1994-95 | 36 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 146 | 163 | 29 | 6th COJCHL | |
| 1995-96 | 42 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 207 | 159 | 60 | 3rd COJCHL | |
| 1996-97 | 40 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 177 | 172 | 43 | 4th COJCHL | |
| 1997-98 | 40 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 208 | 158 | 59 | 1st COJCHL | Won League |
| 1998-99 | 40 | 19 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 181 | 213 | 41 | 4th COJCHL | |
| 1999-00 | 40 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 150 | 231 | 31 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 2000-01 | 40 | 12 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 161 | 202 | 27 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 2001-02 | 42 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 147 | 204 | 30 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 2002-03 | 38 | 12 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 131 | 177 | 29 | 5th COJCHL | |
| 2003-04 | 38 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 129 | 174 | 28 | 4th COJCHL | |
| 2004-05 | 40 | 17 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 123 | 161 | 36 | 4th COJCHL | |
| 2005-06 | 42 | 28 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 191 | 144 | 57 | 2nd COJCHL | Lost Semi-final |
| 2006-07 | 40 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 175 | 154 | 47 | 3rd COJCHL | Lost Semi-final |
| 2007-08 | 40 | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 137 | 152 | 46 | 3rd COJCHL |
