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WHAT IS THE OHF CHAMPIONSHIP?
The Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) Minor Hockey Championships
is a 3-day event bringing together all OHF branch champions at the U18AA
level. The Championships take place at the end of every hockey season in the
month of April. The Kitchener Jr Rangers U18AA team is pleased to
host the 2023 U18AA Championship on April 21-23, 2023. Our goal is to create
a lasting lifetime experience for the players, their families, friends, and
all hockey fans who will be in attendance and we need your help! OHF host
city announcement here - https://www.ohf.on.ca/news/2022/2023-all-ontario-regional-and-ohf-championships-host-approved
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Information Activa Sportsplex - 135 Lennox Lewis Way, Kitchener
Ontario will host all tournament games. Friday, April 21 – Sunday,
April 23 Exposure to over 1,000
guests and attendees throughout the weekend! ------- Host Team Hockey
Association: https://kitchenerminorhockey.com/ Host Team Website: https://kitchenerminorhockey.com/Teams/9017/
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About
this year’s host team
The 2022/23 Kitchener Jr Rangers U18 ‘AA’ team has
had a successful season thus far. To start the season, The Jr Rangers came out firing
on all cylinders where they went 11-1-1. During that time, the blue and red
made their way to Cleveland, Ohio, and played in the Rock ‘N Roll Cup. In
this tournament, they competed against multiple teams with 2004/2005 born
players. Being younger did not make a difference for the proud and determined
group of 2005/06 born players. The Jr Rangers were crowned Champions and made
their way back to Canada. Not only were they victorious, they
also bonded off the ice by attending an AHL game together, cheered on a
‘Pool’ tournament, and became the number one fans of ‘Fireball Phil!” This
was a tournament that was full of laughs, karaoke, and more laughs....and of
course memories. In December, the Jr Rangers attended Halton Hills and
competed in the Best of the Best Tournament. In this tourney, the boys played
their hearts out and never gave up. In game three, the Rangers were down two,
late in the game. The team was well aware that in
order to stay alive, they needed a “W.” The boys capitalized and scored two
quick goals. Then with 7 seconds remaining, the unthinkable happened! KJR was
awarded a penalty shot!! The pressure did not faze our strong Ranger and he
buried a beauty goal and secured the victory. More importantly, kept the
Rangers alive. The boys eventually made it to the semi-finals where the
Rangers scored two late goals to tie the game and force the game into
overtime. In OT, the heroics continued! The Rangers played 8 overtime periods
and it came down to the game being determined with 1 on 1 battle. The Rangers
emptied the tank and gave it absolutely everything they had and came out
winners to give them a chance to win another Championship. Unfortunately,
this one was not meant to be and they lost in the
finals. Regardless, it was an amazing weekend with plenty of excitement and
timely goals. This tournament provided the boys with the mindfulness that the game isn’t over until it’s
over! To kick off 2023, this team of determined young men
went to Barrie and played in the Glen Bellerby
Tournament. At this tourney, the boys played great hockey and as always, had
phenomenal goaltending. The Jr Rangers entertained themselves at the ‘lively’
Fern Resort between games where they grew closer together as a team. It was
another great weekend with tough competition. The Rangers lost 3-2 in the
finals to a strong Toronto Shamrock team. The boys battled hard all weekend
and returned home more determined than ever. There is no doubt that this team is close and shares
a special bond. The more time they spend together, the better they do. The Jr
Rangers are a combined 13-4-3 in tournaments this season. As a host, the goal is to always go in the front door. The Rangers aim
to finish strong and place as high as they can in the regular season. The
mission is to win the super-competitive Alliance. From there, the Ranger’s
goal is to continue their amazing Tournament play and end the season as OHF
Champions.
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Contacts
David McKenna, Chair – chair@u18ohf.com Dave Domjan, Co-Chair – dave@u18ohf.com Deb Domjan, Sponsorships – deb@u18ohf.com Shelley Wasylyshyn, Treasurer
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History
of this year’s host city
Kitchener is situated in the Grand River valley, 95 km west-southwest
of Toronto. Founded by Bishop Benjamin Eby and
settled by German immigrants about 1807, the community was known successively
as Sand Hill, Ebytown, and Berlin before being
renamed after the British field marshal Lord Kitchener in 1916. It is an
important industrial, financial, and distribution centre in one of Canada’s
most densely populated areas. Economic activities include meat-packing,
brewing and distilling, tanning, furniture making, and the manufacture of
textiles, shoes, rubber products, and appliances. Kitchener supports a
symphony orchestra, philharmonic choir, little theatre, and art society. The
boyhood home of Mackenzie King, former Canadian prime minister, is preserved
in Woodside National Historic Park. Some of our most significant landscapes
point to our industrial past, predating the arrival of the local railway in
the 1850s. Others reflect our historic residential neighbourhoods, some of
which were built before the First World War, and others that were constructed
right after the Second World War. Kitchener also boasts one of the best-preserved
Victorian-era parks in Canada, Victoria Park, designed between 1894-95. Also
preserved within Kitchener include nineteenth and early 20th Century
cemeteries, golf courses, institutions, pioneer farmsteads and residential
estates. Over 60 NHL players were born in Kitchener and combined they have
tallied almost 10,000 points across nearly 20,000 games, of which 7 players
had over 500 career points: 7 of those players include Darryl Sittler (1950, 1096 GP, 1121 Pts), Scott Stevens (1964,
1635 GP, 908 Pts), Mark Scheifele (1993, 692 GP, 622 Pts), Milt Schmidt
(1918, 776 GP, 575 Pts), Paul Reinhart (1960, 648 GP, 559 Pts), Gary Dornhoefer (1943, 787 GP, 542 Pts), and Brian Bradley
(1965, 651 GP, 503 Pts). Not including those born outside of the city, Kitchener has
consistently produced NHL quality players every year since the 1890s. As an
example, the following are some additional players from each decade born
through end of the 1990s: Harry Meeking (1894, 64
GP, 32 Pts), Lloyd Gross (1905, 52 GP, 15 Pts), Woody Dumart
(1916, 774 GP, 430 Pts), Howie Meeker (1924, 346 GP, 185 Pts), Earl Reibel (1930, 409 GP, 245 Pts), Rod Seiling
(1944, 979 GP, 331 Pts), Dave Maloney (1956, 657 GP, 317 Pts), Jim Sandlak (1966, 549 GP, 229 Pts), Steven Rice (1971, 329 GP,
125 Pts), Mike Hoffman (1989, 647 GP, 446 Pts), Tanner Pearson (1992, 590 GP,
272 Pts), and most recently 2 new NHL stars in the making are Nicolas Hague
and Logan Stanley. Hockey has always been a big part of our culture in Kitchener. As an
example, the Kitchener Greenshirts, founded in
1917, produced many NHL legends such as the Kraut line (center Milt Schmidt,
left wing Woody Dumart, and right winger Bobby
Bauer). The Kraut line played almost 1,900 NHL games with the Boston Bruins
with their careers put on hold during WWII to serve in the Royal Canadian Air
Force. This trio were one of the most dominant lines of any era, having
finished first, second, and third in scoring during the 1939-1940 season, a
feat repeated only twice, by the 1944–45 Punch line and the 1949–50
Production Line. Following in the footsteps of the Kitchener Greenshirts
success, Kitchener’s first professional team was the Beavers (1960-1961), and
then in 1963, Eugene George and a group of Kitchener businessmen brought the
Guelph Royals, a farm team of the NHL’s New York Rangers, to Kitchener and
renamed them the Kitchener Rangers Junior “A” Hockey Club (originally
inaugurated ahead of the 1947–48 Ontario Hockey Association season as the
Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters). The OHL Kitchener Rangers have won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL
champions in 1981, 1982, 2003 and 2008. They have appeared in six Memorial
Cups (1981, 1982, 1984, 1990, 2003 and 2008), advancing to the final game of
the tournament each of those six years, and they are two-time Memorial Cup
champions (1982, 2003). They are one of the most successful Canadian Hockey
League teams in terms of alumni with over 180 players and coaches going on to
serve in the NHL including Gabriel Landeskog, Jeff Skinner, Radek Faksa, John Gibson, Nazem Kadri, Mike Richards, David
Clarkson, Steve Mason, Derek Roy and Peter DeBoer. Five of their alumni have
gone on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Scott Stevens, Bill
Barber, Paul Coffey, Larry Robinson and Al MacInnis.
And as another example of their success, the NHL Calder Memorial Trophy,
which is handed out to the NHL’s top rookie, was recently won by three former
Kitchener Rangers in a four-year span: Steve Mason in 2009, Jeff Skinner in
2011 and Gabriel Landeskog in 2012. |