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30-860: The Belleville Bulls started in 1979 as a Junior Tier II team in the OHA. In their second season in 1980–81, the Bulls won the Tier II title, defeating the Guelph Platers in the league finals. The Bulls then competed in the national championship for the Manitoba Centennial Trophy hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia losing in the finals to the Prince Albert Raiders . On February 2, 1981, the OHL granted an expansion franchise to

60-590: The 1999 Memorial Cup , hosted in Ottawa versus the Calgary Hitmen , Acadie–Bathurst Titan and Ottawa 67's . Belleville finished third, losing to Ottawa 4–2 in the semifinal. In the 2005–06 season, the Belleville Bulls celebrated their 25th anniversary in the OHL. The team also hosted the annual OHL All-Star game for the second time, on February 1, 2006. The Bulls set a season-best record of 102 points earned during

90-827: The CMC's until 1972, the Biltmore Mad Hatters until 1975, and then took on the name Platers. The Platers were promoted to the Ontario Hockey League in 1982 and moved to Owen Sound in 1989. The franchise played in the Guelph Memorial Gardens . The CMC's were founded as members of the Central Junior B Hockey League, now the Ontario Junior Hockey League , in 1968. In 1970, the CMC's merged with and took

120-662: The Canadian Hockey League . In 1986, the Guelph Platers caught the entire Canadian Hockey League off-guard. Led by coach Jacques Martin , the team reached the playoffs for the first time in franchise history by finishing second in the Emms Division (Western Conference). The Platers continued their hard work through the playoffs, winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup by defeating the Belleville Bulls 8 points to 4 in

150-802: The Edmonton Oilers . James Boyd is the only former Bulls player to later coach the Belleville team. (Multiple years in parentheses) CHL Humanitarian of the Year Award Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy OHL Top Point Scorer. Jim Mahon Memorial Trophy OHL Top Scoring Right Winger. OHL Goaltender of the Year Voted best goaltender in the OHL. F.W. "Dinty" Moore Trophy Best rookie goals against average. Wayne Gretzky 99 Award Playoffs MVP Dan Snyder Memorial Trophy Humanitarian of

180-568: The Portland Winter Hawks (hosts), Kamloops Blazers (WHL Champs) and the Hull Olympiques (QMJHL Champs. Guelph finished first in the round-robin and took a bye to the finals, where they would play the Hull Olympiques of the QMJHL for the championship. The surprise season ended with two pairs of surprise goals 11 and 13 seconds apart respectively. The Platers won the game 5–2 to capture

210-709: The 1971–72 season. In the Ontario Championship, they took on the Thunder Bay Vulcans of the now defunct Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League . The CMC's were leading 3-games-to-2 (5-4, 5–4, 3–7, 0–7, 6-2) when they won the series by default after the Vulcans discontinued. Moving onto the Eastern Canadian Final, the CMC's faced Charlottetown from the Island Junior Hockey League . The result of

240-679: The 2007–08 regular season. In 2007–08, the Bulls made a trip to the Memorial Cup by virtue of Kitchener winning the Western Conference, and being the host, Belleville would get in as the OHL representative. The Bulls would lose the semi-final game 9–0 against the hosting team, the Kitchener Rangers, who would eventually lose to the Spokane Chiefs in the championship game. On March 12, 2015, Michael Andlauer announced that he had acquired

270-599: The Beef King's place. Shawn MacKenzie Shawn Kenneth MacKenzie (born August 22, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played a total of 130 minutes during 6 games in the National Hockey League with the New Jersey Devils . He had 15 goals scored against him in those 130 minutes of play, for a Goals Against Average of 6.92. From 2000 to 2004 he served as head coach of

300-645: The Belleville Bulls and that they would move to Hamilton 's FirstOntario Centre for the 2015–16 season to become the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Hamilton Bulldogs , an American Hockey League franchise, was concurrently sold to the Montreal Canadiens and moved to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador , for the 2015–16 season as the St. John's IceCaps (the True North Sports and Entertainment -owned IceCaps, which

330-581: The Centennial Cup. Platers CMC's/Mad Hatters SOJHL Years OPJHL Years The Guelph Platers played at the Guelph Memorial Gardens located in downtown Guelph. The team and the arena played host to the OHL All-Star game in 1984. Demolition of the Gardens began in 2006. The City of Guelph was unhappy with the fact that their Junior A team had been moved to Kitchener in 1963. Left with only

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360-899: The Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters. The Biltmores won the SOJHL championship again in 1975, then defeated the Smiths Falls Bears of the Central Junior A Hockey League in 6 games (8-3, 3–4, 7–2, 6–4, 3–6, 5-2) to reach the Centennial Cup finals a second time. The Biltmores were defeated 4-games-to-2 (3-4, 2–3, 4–1, 5–2, 6–3, 6-5 OT) by the Spruce Grove Mets of the Alberta Junior Hockey League . The 1975 Biltmores were bolsterted on defence by late season pick-up Craig Hartsburg of Minnesota North Stars fame. Following

390-608: The Guelph CMC's at the OHA Junior B level, the City jumped at the 1968 offer of the newly-renegade Western Ontario Junior A Hockey League to give the city a new Junior A team. After a pair of losing seasons and a name change to the Beef Kings, the league was reincorporated into the OHA as a Tier II Junior A league and the franchise being bought out by the CMC's. From that point on, the CMC's took

420-629: The Guelph Holody Platers. The team remained in the SOJHL for the next two years, finishing first both times. The SOJHL folded in 1977. Two of its four teams, Guelph and the Hamilton Mountain A's , became part of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "A" League . The Platers, featuring future Montreal Canadiens goaltender Brian Hayward , won the 1977–78 Manitoba Centennial Trophy as national Junior 'A' champions. It

450-657: The Memorial Cup. Fame was short-lived for the Platers however. The team suffered through more losing seasons with poor attendance. After the 1988–89 season, the Holodys moved the team to Owen Sound , Ontario , retaining the name "Platers". Alec Campagnaro was given the Bill Long Award for distinguished service to the OHL in 1989. Jacques Martin was a former NCAA goalie turned coach. In his one year in Guelph, he completely turned around

480-640: The OHL finals in 1986 versus a familiar foe from their Tier II days, the Guelph Platers . The Platers won the series in 6 games. In 1995 and 1996, the Bulls lost in the semi-finals to the Guelph Storm . The 1999 season would be one for the memories when the Belleville Bulls would win it all. The Bulls defeated the London Knights 9–2 in game seven of the OHL championship series at the Yardmen Arena to win their first J. Ross Robertson Cup . The Bulls competed in

510-585: The city of Belleville and the ownership group of Dr. Robert L. Vaughan & Bob Dolan. Dr. Robert L. Vaughan remained an owner/co-owner of the team for over 20 years until he sold the team in 2004 to Gord Simmonds. Dr. Vaughan was awarded the Bill Long award in 1993 for distinguished service to the OHL. In 1983, Belleville hosted the OHL All-Star Game, known then as the OHL Chrysler Cup. The Bulls reached

540-757: The existence of the franchise. The Yardmen Arena is part of the Quinte Sports Centre which is composed of the Yardmen Arena and the Wally Dever arena which is home to the Belleville McFarlands, an OHA Senior team, and is also used by minor hockey teams. Guelph Platers The Guelph Platers were a junior ice hockey team based in Guelph , Ontario, Canada. The team played in the Ontario Hockey League , Ontario Junior Hockey League , and Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League . They were originally known as

570-524: The final. Guelph travelled to the Memorial Cup that year, bringing home the national championship to complete their Cinderella season. The Memorial Cup championship of 1986 was hosted by the Western Hockey League , with games originally scheduled for New Westminster, British Columbia , but were switched to Portland, Oregon due to a hotel shortage caused by Expo '86 . Their opponents would be

600-621: The franchise making them into national champions. He was awarded the Matt Leyden Trophy as OHL Coach of the year in 1986. The following year he was hired as the head coach of the NHL St. Louis Blues . 18 - Paul Fendley , a member of the SOJAHL 's Guelph CMC's who died in an on-ice accident at Guelph Memorial Gardens in 1972. His number has not been issued to a player since, by the Guelph CMC's, Guelph Platers, or Guelph Storm. Paul Fendley's number

630-407: The game. He tried to catch his balance while still handling the puck and lost his helmet in the process, falling and striking the bare back of his head on the ice. Fendley was the 1972 SOJHL Leading Scorer with 20 goals and 24 assists in 43 games. He also scored 14 goals and 18 assists in 26 playoff games before his accident. The game in which he was fatally injured was the final and clinching game of

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660-657: The last season for the Platers in the OHA-A. As they won their second Dudley Hewitt Cup, they were announced as the latest expansion team of the Ontario Hockey League. After being turned down as an OHL expansion team in 1981, Guelph was approved the next year for the 1982–83 season. Guelph's first season in the OHL was dismal. The team set OHL records at the time for losing 63 of their 70 games, for most home and away losses, and most goals against in one season with 555. All of these records have since been surpassed by other teams in

690-829: The place of the Guelph Beef Kings of the Western Junior "A" Hockey League (formerly the Western Division of the Big 10). The league was reincorporated into the Ontario Hockey Association and changed its name to the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League for the 1970–71 season. CMC was an acronym for Central Mechanical Contractors. After two years playing in the SOJHL, the CMC's won the Junior 'A' league title, in

720-500: The season, the Biltmores were bought by the Holody family, the owners of a local electroplating company. The Holodys changed the team name to the Guelph Holody Platers. In 1975, the Biltmores of the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League (SOJHL) were bought by Guelph , Ontario 's wealthy Holody family, the owners of a local electroplating company. The Holodys changed the team name to

750-578: The series was a four-game sweep (5-2, 6–3, 5–2, 5-2), in favour of Guelph. Guelph travelled to the Centennial Cup versus the Red Deer Rustlers of the Alberta Junior Hockey League . The CMC's swept the Rustlers (4-2, 3–2, 3–1, 3-0), taking the National title. The team was coached by Bill Taylor and starred Paul Fendley, Doug Risebrough , and John Van Boxmeer . In 1972 the CMC's changed their names to

780-473: The year. William Hanley Trophy Most sportsmanlike player. Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy Overage player of the year. Bobby Smith Trophy Scholastic player of the year. Jack Ferguson Award First overall draft pick. Legend: OL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout Loss Bulls Uniforms The team has played all homes games at the Belleville Yardmen Arena (capacity 3,257) for

810-576: Was affiliated with the Winnipeg Jets , moved back to Winnipeg to become the Manitoba Moose ). Leyden Trophy East Division Regular Season Champions Bobby Orr Trophy Eastern Conference Champions J. Ross Robertson Cup Championships: 1999 Memorial Cup Appearances: 2 Larry Mavety coached the Belleville Bulls for 14 seasons. He is third only to Brian Kilrea and Dale Hunter for amount of time coached with an OHL team. Lou Crawford

840-656: Was groomed by Mavety to replace him behind the Bulls' bench. Lou Crawford is the brother of former NHL head coach Marc Crawford , who was also the head coach of the St. John's Maple Leafs (now the Toronto Marlies ) in the American Hockey League , which played in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador . Their father, Floyd Crawford , was team captain of the 1959 World Champion Belleville McFarlands . Former head coaches Lou Crawford and Shawn MacKenzie both had brief NHL careers. George Burnett briefly coached with

870-446: Was officially retired on Nov 15, 2008. Paul Fendley of Georgetown, Ontario was a member of the 1971-72 Guelph CMC's who died as a result of an on ice accident at Guelph Memorial Gardens during Guelph's Centennial Cup 1972 victory. The 19-year-old player died at Kitchener-Waterloo General Hospital on May 8, 1972, seventy-three hours after striking his head on the arena ice. Fendley was checked by an opponent with 11 minutes to play in

900-464: Was the second national title for the franchise, which had also won the Centennial Cup in 1972 as the CMC's. In 1978–79, the Platers became the first team to win the Dudley Hewitt Cup as provincial champions. In the 1980–81 season, the Platers reached the Tier II championship for southern Ontario, but were defeated by another future OHL team, the Belleville Bulls . The 1981–82 season proved to be

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