Valley Wildcats

Valley Wildcats
City	Berwick or Kentville, Nova Scotia
League	Maritime Junior Hockey League
Division	Eastlink
Founded	1967 (Antigonish Bulldogs)
Home arena	TBD
Owner(s)	David MacDonald
General manager	Stan Hennigar
Head coach	Stan Hennigar
Franchise history
1967-2008	Antigonish Bulldogs
2008-2010	Halifax Lions
2010-2012	Metro Marauders
2012-2013	Metro Shipbuilders
2013-present	Valley Wildcats

The Valley Wildcats are a junior A hockey franchise based in the Annapolis Valley. The team is a member of the Maritime Junior Hockey League and plays in the Eastlink Division.

History

The Bulldogs were founded in 1967 as members of the Antigonish-Pictou-Colchester Junior B Hockey League. After two seasons the league became the Northumberland Junior B Hockey League. In 1974, the Bulldogs became a founding member of what became the Eastern Junior A Hockey League, but returned to the Northumberland League in 1975. The Bulldogs would win league titles and provincial titles in 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985. They would also win the Don Johnson Cup as Atlantic Junior B Champions in 1983 and 1984, the first team to ever win the Cup back-to-back. In 1987 they jumped to the Metro Valley Junior A League, which became the MJAHL in 1991.

The Shipbuilders were known as the "Antigonish Bulldogs" for 40 years. After it was decided that operating in Antigonish, Nova Scotia was no longer viable, the franchise was sold to a Metro Halifax group and then relocated to that city in the summer of 2008. The team's nickname, then, as "Halifax Lions" was announced on August 22, 2008. The name is a tribute to the successful Halifax Lions teams of the 1980s.

In 2010, the team was relocated to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and renamed again as the Metro Marauders. Then just 2 years later it was renamed the Metro Shipbuilders

In 2013 it was announced that the Halifax Regional Municipality would be losing Jr A hockey due to low attendance rates in the area. The name of the team will be, the Valley Jr A Wildcats and the place it will move to will be either, Berwick, Nova Scotia or Kentville, Nova Scotia.

Season-by-season record

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1967-68	18	7	10	1	-	--	--	15	2nd APCJBHL	Lost Final
1968-69	Statistics Not Available
1969-70	24	13	9	2	-	103	92	28	3rd NJBHL	Lost Semi-final
1970-71	30	14	13	3	-	--	--	31	3rd NJBHL	Lost Semi-final
1971-82	Statistics Not Available
1982-83	24	16	7	1	-	--	--	33	1st NJBHL	Won League, Won DJC
1983-85	Statistics Not Available
1985-86	30	19	9	2	-	147	119	40	2nd NJBHL
1986-87	40	11	21	8	-	171	222	30	4th MVJHL
1987-88	40	21	16	3	-	202	171	45	3rd MVJHL
1988-89	40	20	13	7	-	209	186	47	3rd MVJHL
1989-90	38	24	12	2	-	230	181	50	3rd MVJHL
1990-91	40	21	12	7	-	210	172	49	3rd MVJHL
1991-92	46	25	14	7	-	256	195	57	2nd MJAHL
1992-93	48	23	16	7	2	235	179	55	3rd MJAHL	Won League
1993-94	48	32	13	2	1	273	177	67	2nd MJAHL	Won League
1994-95	48	27	14	7	0	215	202	61	2nd MJAHL
1995-96	54	32	19	2	1	288	231	67	2nd MJAHL
1996-97	56	30	21	3	2	287	264	65	4th MJAHL
1997-98	51	19	25	3	4	229	244	45	7th MJAHL
1998-99	48	29	16	3	-	241	149	64	3rd MJAHL
1999-00	52	34	12	5	1	273	181	74	3rd MJAHL
2000-01	52	33	16	2	1	260	187	69	2nd MJAHL	Won League
2001-02	52	4	41	4	3	123	296	15	10th MJAHL
2002-03	52	24	27	1	0	210	226	49	7th MJAHL
2003-04	52	20	25	3	4	166	206	47	7th MJAHL
2004-05	56	23	25	5	3	200	216	54	8th MJAHL
2005-06	56	30	22	0	4	196	182	65	5th MJAHL	Lost in division semi-final
2006-07	58	28	21	0	9	218	229	65	7th MJAHL	Lost in division quarter-Final
2007-08	58	6	48	-	4	105	299	16	12th MJAHL
2008-09	54	10	39	-	5	159	288	25	10th MJAHL
2009-10	50	22	24	-	4	178	199	48	6th MJAHL	Lost Quarter-final
2010-11	52	27	21	-	4	173	177	58	7th MHL	Lost Mini Series
2011-12	52	27	19	-	6	202	192	60	6th MHL	Lost Quarter-final
2012-13	52	4	46	-	2	124	287	10	Last MHL	DNQ

External links

• Metro Shipbuilders website

See also

• List of ice hockey teams in Nova Scotia