Division Mid-Western General manager Steve Marshall Arena/Stadium Sleeman Centre Date founded 1960 | Colors Blue, Black, and White 19xx-1979 Hespeler Shamrocks Location Guelph, Canada Color Blue, Black, and White | |
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City Guelph, Ontario, Canada Home arena Sleeman Centre
Victoria Arena Affiliates Guelph Storm (Ontario Hockey League), Walkerton Hawks (Provincial Junior Hockey League) | ||
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The Guelph Hurricanes are a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Mid-Western division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.
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History
Originating as the Hespeler Shamrocks, founded around 1960, the team became the Cambridge Shamrocks in 1979 due to a town amalgamation. In 1982, the Sharocks were bought by Joe Holody and moved to Guelph to become the farm team to the Guelph Platers. The team has since changed its name to the Fire and then the Dominators, but had kept the "Platers" moniker until 1996, despite their parent club moving and stranding them to become the Owen Sound Platers in 1989.
The team originated in the Central Junior C Hockey League, a league now known as the Western Junior C Hockey League. In 1970, they joined the "Mid-Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League", and in 1971 joined the new Central Junior "B", the precursor to the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. In 1974 they moved to the Waterloo-Wellington Junior League, which, in 1977, became the Midwestern "B" and have been there ever since.
During the mid to late 90's, The Guelph Platers played in the Ontario Midwestern Junior B loop. During part of this era they operated as the "farm team" for the Guelph Storm. They would wear the same colour scheme as the original team (with the classic lightning bolt theme) and played out of Guelph Memorial Gardens. While the team generally did not fare well during most of this period, they had several players drafted into the OHL, receive walk on tryouts to Major Jr. A teams, and US scholarships. Eventually around the shift into the new millennium, the Platers would become the Guelph Fire. This only lasted a few seasons as the team was purchased by a local pizza shop owner rebrading the team as the Guelph Dominators. The Doms began a slow climb out of the basement of their Jr. B loop and had some successful seasons. The Dominators eventually became the Guelph Hurricanes, their current franchise which now calls the Guelph Sleeman Centre home.