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Petrolia Jets
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CityPetrolia, Ontario, Canada
LeagueGreat Lakes Junior C Hockey League/
Western Ontario Hockey League/
Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League
Operatedc. 1960-2008
Home arenaPetrolia Arena
ColoursRed, Yellow, and White
     
General managerBrian Sukarukoff
Head coachCraig Warwick
AffiliatesLondon Knights (OHL)
Lambeth Lancers (SOJHL)
Franchise history
1960-2008Petrolia Jets
2008-2017Lambton Shores Predators
2017-presentKomoka Kings

The Petrolia Jets were a junior ice hockey team based in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada. They played in the Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League, the Western Ontario Hockey League, and the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a closed, vulcanized, rubber disc called a "puck" into the other team's goal. Each goal is worth one point. The team which scores the most goals is declared the winner. In a formal game, each team has six skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, one of whom is the goaltender. Ice hockey is a full contact sport, and is considered to be one of the more physically demanding sports.

Petrolia, Ontario

Petrolia, Ontario

Petrolia is a town in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is part of Lambton County and is surrounded by Enniskillen Township. It is billed as "Canada's Victorian Oil Town" and is often credited with starting the oil industry in North America, a claim shared with the nearby town of Oil Springs.

Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area. Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital.

Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League

Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League

The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL) is a Canadian junior ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association, Ontario Hockey Federation, and Hockey Canada. The league is considered Junior B by the OHA, although it has attempted several times to be promoted to Junior A.

Western Ontario Hockey League

Western Ontario Hockey League

The Western Ontario Hockey League (WOHL) was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association from 1969 until 2007. In 2007, the league became a division of the newly formed Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League along with the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League and Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League.

Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League

Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League

The Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League was a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The champion of the Great Lakes competed for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup. It is now a division in the Provincial Junior Hockey League.

History

During the 1960s, the Petrolia Jets participated in a loosely ran Bluewater League that was sometimes classified as a junior league depending on how competitive its teams felt. From 1967, the Jets were permanently a junior hockey club. In 1968 and 1969 made it to the league final, but failed to win. Starting in the 1970, the Jets would win the regional Junior B championship and play for the OHA Sutherland Cup championship.

In 1972, the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League would revert permanently to Junior C hockey, and the Jets jumped to the more broad and competitive Western Ontario Junior B Hockey League. The Jets would not enjoy much success in the WOHL and returned to the GLJHL in 1984. Despite five great regular seasons in Junior C, the Jets would never even make the GLJHL final and returned to the WOHL in 1989.

Despite winning the WOHL regular season crown in 1995 and the league's playoff title in 2003, the Jets success in the box office dwindled over the years. In the late 2000s on-ice success disappeared, and the team was moved to Forest, Ontario and renamed the Lambton Shores Predators because of competition for fans from the neighbouring Sarnia Sting

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Season-by-season results

Season GP W L T OTL GF GA P Results Playoffs
1967-68 24 11 8 5 - 124 111 27 3rd BWJHL Lost Jr. C Final
1968-69 31 18 9 4 - 150 101 40 4th BCJHL Lost Jr. B Final
1969-70 34 26 8 0 - 180 89 52 1st BCJHL "B" Champions
1970-71 40 31 8 1 - 384 167 63 1st GLJHL "B" Champions
1971-72 36 32 3 1 - 288 121 65 1st GLJHL "B" Champions
1972-73 42 18 16 8 - 217 203 44 3rd WOJHL
1973-74 40 11 25 4 - 156 232 26 4th WOJHL
1974-75 40 19 17 4 - 196 187 42 3rd WOJHL
1975-76 39 21 10 8 - 220 172 50 3rd WOJHL
1976-77 40 16 16 8 - 183 191 40 4th WOJHL
1977-78 40 22 12 6 - 216 161 50 2nd WOJHL
1978-79 42 27 11 4 - 295 199 58 3rd WOJHL
1979-80 41 11 28 2 - 182 259 24 6th WOJHL
1980-81 42 17 19 6 - 214 210 40 6th WOJHL
1981-82 42 15 25 2 - 150 210 32 5th WOJHL
1982-83 42 13 25 4 - 192 231 30 7th WOJHL
1983-84 48 11 36 1 - 200 360 23 8th WOJHL
1984-85 39 19 9 11 - 207 135 49 4th GLJHL
1985-86 40 19 15 6 - 211 181 44 4th GLJHL
1986-87 39 30 6 1 2 242 137 63 1st GLJHL
1987-88 39 26 11 1 1 216 149 54 2nd GLJHL
1988-89 40 30 9 1 0 244 141 61 2nd GLJHL
1989-90 40 14 19 6 1 173 188 35 7th WOJHL
1990-91 48 28 18 1 1 231 179 58 5th WOJHL
1991-92 50 18 25 6 1 196 237 43 4th WOJHL West
1992-93 52 21 24 3 4 - - 49 4th WOJHL West
1993-94 50 24 22 3 1 253 245 52 4th WOJHL West Lost Final
1994-95 52 39 11 0 2 324 196 80 1st WOJHL West
1995-96 52 26 20 6 0 225 221 58 3rd WOJHL West
1996-97 52 32 18 2 0 245 188 66 3rd WOJHL West
1997-98 52 23 20 5 4 205 193 55 3rd WOJHL West
1998-99 52 33 14 0 5 241 175 71 3rd WOJHL West
1999-00 54 23 25 0 6 191 219 52 7th GOHL
2000-01 54 35 13 2 4 194 132 76 3rd GOHL
2001-02 54 34 16 1 3 228 169 72 4th WOJHL
2002-03 48 28 19 0 1 200 156 57 4th WOJHL Won League
2003-04 48 30 14 1 3 180 148 64 3rd WOJHL
2004-05 48 12 31 3 2 122 210 29 9th WOJHL
2005-06 48 26 15 2 5 149 149 59 4th WOJHL Lost Semi Final
2006-07 48 7 37 - 4 139 302 18 9th WOJHL DNQ
2007-08 48 7 37 - 4 138 303 18 9th GOJHL-W DNQ

Notable alumni

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Todd Bidner

Todd Bidner

Richard Todd Bidner is a Canadian retired ice hockey centre.

Scott Foster (ice hockey)

Scott Foster (ice hockey)

Scott Foster is a Canadian accountant and amateur ice hockey goaltender. He appeared in one game for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) near the end of the 2017–18 season as an emergency goaltender following injuries to the team's starting and backup goaltenders, becoming the first emergency goaltender to be called into a game due to injuries in recent years.

Bobby Gould

Bobby Gould

Robert Hewitt Gould is an English former footballer and manager.

Tim Hrynewich

Tim Hrynewich

Tim Hrynewich is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played 55 NHL games for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 1982 and 1984.

Dale Hunter

Dale Hunter

Dale Robert Hunter is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and the former head coach of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League and current co-owner, president, and two-time Memorial Cup-winning head coach of the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League. He was born in Petrolia, Ontario, but grew up in nearby Oil Springs, Ontario. He is the middle of three Hunter brothers, with older brother Dave and younger brother Mark, to play in the NHL.

Mark Hunter (ice hockey)

Mark Hunter (ice hockey)

Mark William Hunter is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive, coach, and former player. He most recently served as the assistant general manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hunter was born in Petrolia, Ontario, but grew up in nearby Oil Springs, Ontario, and was one of three brothers, with Dave and Dale, to play in the NHL.

Michael Leighton

Michael Leighton

Michael W. Leighton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes.

John Van Boxmeer

John Van Boxmeer

John Martin Van Boxmeer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He has also served extensively as a hockey coach with various teams from 1984 to the present.

Pat Verbeek

Pat Verbeek

Patrick Martin Verbeek is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current general manager of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Verbeek played for five teams over a 20-year playing career, earning a Stanley Cup ring with the Dallas Stars in 1999. His nickname, the "Little Ball of Hate", was given to him in 1995 by Glenn Healy after fellow New York Rangers teammate Ray Ferraro was tagged as the "Big Ball of Hate". He is one of few NHL players to have scored 500 goals, but he is one of five eligible of those players to not be a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Paul Ysebaert

Paul Ysebaert

Paul Robert Ysebaert is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. During his fourteen years playing career, he played 11 years in the National Hockey League as a left wing for the New Jersey Devils, Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, and Tampa Bay Lightning. Ysebaert accumulated a total of 336 points in 532 games during his career.

Steve Mason (ice hockey)

Steve Mason (ice hockey)

Steve Mason is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently the Director of Goalie Development for the Oakville Rangers of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA). During his National Hockey League career, he played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets.

Brian Campbell

Brian Campbell

Brian Wesley Campbell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks in 2010, assisting on the deciding goal.

Source: "Petrolia Jets", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, July 9th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrolia_Jets.

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