Port Dover Sailors

Port Dover Sailors
Port Dover Sailors
Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League
City	Port Dover, Ontario
Founded	1988
Division	West
Franchise history	1988-1999: Port Dover Clippers 1999-2011: Port Dover Sailors 2011-2013: Norfolk Rebels 2013-Present: Port Dover Sailors
Head Coach	Mike Tobin
General Manager	John Lennox
Arena	Port Dover Arena
Team Colors	Blue, Red, and White
League Champions	None

The Port Dover Sailors are a Canadian junior hockey team based in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League of the Ontario Hockey Association.

History

The Port Dover Clippers were founded in 1988 as members of the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League. The Clippers were 1990 and 1991 Niagara East champions and Niagara co-champions. In 1990, the Clippers would fall to the Orangeville Crushers of the Mid-Ontario Junior C Hockey League 4-games-to-1 in the Clarence Schmalz Cup OHA provincial quarter-final. Their western co-champions, the New Hamburg Spirit 83's would fair no better, dropping one of the other quarter-finals in four-straight-games to the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League champion Belle River Canadiens. The next year was more of the same, as Port Diver and New Hamburg were the co-champions, New Hamburg would lose the provincial quarter-final to Belle River again (this time in 6 games), and Port Dover would fall to Orangeville again in 5.

In 1999, the Clippers took leave of the Niagara District league. Clippers changed their name to the Port Dover Sailors and applied for membership in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior Development League.

In 2006, the OHAJDL changed its name to the Southern Ontario Junior Hockey League, the Sailors competed in this league until 2012.

In spring 2010, the team executive canvassed for a coach to help build the team from the bottom up. Chris Gill, a Hamilton native and veteran competitive hockey coach was selected for the vacant job.

From 2011until 2013 the team was known as the Norfolk Rebels and split time between Port Dover and Waterford, Ontario.

In 2013, the team returned to being the Port Dover Sailors.

Season-by-season record

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1988-89	40	19	13	8	-	--	--	46	3rd NJC-E
1989-90	40	29	8	3	-	--	--	61	1st NJC-E	Won East, Lost CSC QF
1990-91	36	22	10	4	-	237	152	48	1st NJC-E	Won East, Lost CSC QF
1991-92	36	23	8	5	-	195	145	51	2nd NJC-E
1992-93	36	12	16	8	-	157	181	32	3rd NJC-W
1993-94	36	21	11	4	-	176	144	46	2nd NJC-W
1994-95	36	19	14	3	-	195	171	41	4th NJC-W
1995-96	40	13	23	4	-	163	237	30	4th NJC-W
1996-97	40	1	37	0	2	78	287	4	6th NJC-W
1997-98	38	2	35	0	1	106	239	5	6th NJC-W
1998-99	35	4	30	-	1	--	--	9	6th NJC-W
1999-00	38	10	25	1	2	140	242	23	15th OHAJDL
2000-01	40	10	26	0	4	--	--	24	16th OHAJDL
2001-02	40	8	27	4	1	100	212	21	18th OHAJDL
2002-03	40	11	27	1	1	126	187	24	18th OHAJDL
2003-04	40	16	22	1	1	127	148	34	14th OHAJDL
2004-05	40	21	13	3	3	135	129	48	8th OHAJDL
2005-06	37	10	21	4	2	127	167	26	14th OHAJDL
2006-07	42	8	30	0	4	96	232	20	4th SOJHL-BM	Lost Conference Quarter-final
2007-08	42	12	27	-	3	115	218	27	4th SOJHL-BM	Lost Conference Quarter-final
2008-09	40	11	20	-	9	107	172	31	5th SOJHL-Mc	DNQ
2009-10	36	3	32	-	1	91	223	7	5th SOJHL-Mc	DNQ
2010-11	35	1	31	-	3	83	229	5	8th SOJHL-Mc	Lost Division Quarter-final
2011-12	35	2	30	-	3	103	284	7	8th SOJHL-Mc	Lost Division Quarter-final
2012-13	38	0	36	-	2	78	319	2	7th SOJHL-Mc	Lost Division Quarter-final
2013-14	35	5	28	-	2	89	184	12	8th NJCHL	Lost Quarter-final
2014-15	42	13	29	-	0	140	223	26	7th NJCHL	Lost Quarters - 1-4 - (Blues)

External links

• Sailors Webpage