Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League

The Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League, or EOSHL, was a top Senior ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

league in Eastern Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. The league was governed by the Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

, but was merged into the Major Hockey League in 2008.

History

The EOSHL became a sanctioned Senior "A" league in 2003. In 2005, the league was promoted to Senior "AAA" to compete against Major League Hockey

Major League Hockey

Allan Cup Hockey is the top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in the province of Ontario. As a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, the league contends for the famed Allan Cup. The league came to its latest incarnation when it lost several teams leaving it with two...

and have a chance to win the Allan Cup

Allan Cup

The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It has been competed for since 1909. The current champion is the Clarenville Caribous hockey club of Newfoundland and Labrador.-History:...

. In 2006, the league dropped from 6 to 4 teams.

During the 2007-08 season, a new team known as the Cooks Bay Canucks joined the league. What ensued with this franchise his quite original, as the team, although successful on the ice, underwent two name changes in the same season. The team started the season as the Cooks Bay Canucks, but soon dropped it for the Simcoe County Canucks. Although that does not sound too strange, the Canucks made the playoffs and before game two of the league semi-final announced another name change to the Simcoe County Tundras, with new logos, and completely different jerseys and team colours.

In May 2008, due to major team losses in the Western league leaving the Western League with two teams, the EOSHL and the MLH merged to operate as Major League Hockey

Major League Hockey

Teams

Team	Centre	Duration
Cobourg Lynx	Cobourg Cobourg, Ontario Cobourg is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km east of Toronto. It is the largest town in Northumberland County. Its nearest neighbour is Port Hope, to the west. It is located along Highway 401 and the former Highway 2...	2003-2005
Deseronto Bulldogs Deseronto Bulldogs The Deseronto Bulldogs are a Senior "AAA" ice hockey team based out of Deseronto, Ontario. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League....	Deseronto Deseronto, Ontario Deseronto is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, in Hastings County, located on the shore of the Bay of Quinte. The town had a population of 1,824 in the Canada 2006 Census.The town was named for Capt...	2003-2006
Frankford Huskies Frankford Huskies The Baltimore Clippers are a Canadian Senior ice hockey team based in Baltimore, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Major League Hockey.-History:...	Frankford	2004-2008
Kingston Aces Kingston Aces The Kingston Aces are a Senior "AAA" ice hockey team based out of Kingston, Ontario. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League.-External links:*...	Kingston Kingston, Ontario Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...	2005-2006
Marmora Lakers	Marmora Marmora, Ontario Marmora is the largest community in the Municipality of Marmora and Lake in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Crowe River and along Highway 7 between Havelock to the west and Madoc to the east, about the half way point between Ottawa and Toronto.-History:The village was named...	2003-2008
Norwood Vipers Norwood Vipers The Norwood Vipers are a Senior "AAA" ice hockey team from Norwood, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Allan Cup Hockey League and are eligible for the Allan Cup.-History:...	Norwood	2004-2008
St. Lawrence Falcons	Prescott Prescott, Ontario Prescott is a town of approximately 4,180 people on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. The Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge, 5 km east of Prescott in Johnstown, connects it with Ogdensburg, New York...	2003-2005
Simcoe County Tundras	Coldwater	2007-2008
Tamworth Braves	Tamworth Tamworth, Ontario Tamworth is a small community in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. Tamworth is located due North of Napanee, Ontario and Northeast of Belleville, Ontario, near Kingston, Ontario.-Sports:...	2003-2005
Whitby Dunlops Whitby Dunlops The Whitby Dunlops are a team in Major League Hockey. Two previous teams have also played as the Whitby Dunlops. The first was an OHA Senior team from 1954 to 1960. The second was a junior team from 1962 to 1963....	Whitby Whitby, Ontario Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region...	2004-2008

Champions

2008 Whitby Dunlops

2007 Whitby Dunlops

2006 Whitby Dunlops

2005 Norwood Vipers

2004 Belleville Macs

Bolded teams were the winners of the Robertson Cup as Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

champions.

External links

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