City Elliot Lake, Ontario Colours Green, White, Black General manager Corey Bricknell Date founded 2014 | Home arena Centennial Arena Owner(s) Nonprofit corporation Location Elliot Lake, Canada Colors Green, White, Black | |
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League Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League | ||
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The Elliot Lake Wildcats are a Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team based out of Elliot Lake, Ontario. They are members of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL) and play their home games at the Elliot Lake Centennial Arena. The team is owned by a community nonprofit corporation.
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History
The Wildcats were founded in 2014 when the City of Elliot Lake was granted an expansion team just days after the Elliot Lake Bobcats moved to Cochrane, Ontario, to become the Cochrane Crunch. The team chose the Wildcats, over the traditional Vikings moniker. Nathan Hewitt, a former junior coach in the Central Canada Hockey League was chosen as the team's first coach.
During their inaugural 2014–15 season, the Wildcats finished second in their division with a 38-11-2-1 regular season record. However, their season was cut short in the semifinals losing 4-games-to-1 to the Soo Thunderbirds.
For their second season in 2015–16, the Wildcats once again finished second in their division, behind only the Soo Thunderbirds. The Wildcats were led offensively by Cole Hepler, who finished seventh in league scoring with 79 points. Hepler also had a league high 22-game point streak during the season. Rookie goaltender Aaron Mackay starred for the team in net, finishing third in the league with 21 wins. The Wildcats eliminated the Rayside-Balfour Canadians in five games in the first round, before falling once again to the Thunderbirds in the Division Finals 4-games-to-1. The Wildcats would win the 2016 TEP Showcase Hockey Tournament with a 3-2 double overtime win over the Markham Royals on June 26th. They finished with an 8-0 record, and conceded a tournament low five goals.
On July 28, 2016, the Wildcats announced that head coach Nathan Hewitt accepted a coaching job with a university in the CIS and Corey Bricknell has been named the second head coach in team history.
Team-captains
|→2014-2015 - David Chiarelli/Jason Wilson | |→2015-2016 - Spencer MacLean|