Elora Rocks
| Elora Rocks | |
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| City | Elora, Ontario |
| League | WOAA Senior Hockey League |
| Division | North |
| Home arena | Elora & District Community Centre |
| Colours | Red, Blue, and White |
| General manager | George Anderson |
| Head coach | Gary Clark |
The Elora Rocks are a senior hockey team based out of Elora, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League.
In the early 1990s, the Elora Rocks were members of the Northern Senior A Hockey League, winning their final 2 league titles before jumping to the WOAA in 1993.
Elora has captured the WOAA Sr. "AA" championship three times, the first time in 2004-05, followed by 2006-07, and 2009-10.
The Rocks had another very strong season, finishing with a 16-5-3 record, which placed them in third place in the North Division, and qualifying for the Senior "AA" playoffs.
Elora faced the Lucan-Ilderton Jets in the quarter-finals in a close series that had three straight games go into overtime, with Elora winning two of them. The Rocks would go on and defeat the Jets in six games and move on to the "AA" semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, the Rocks would face the Lucknow Lancers, and opened the series up on the right foot with a 6-5 double overtime victory. Elora carried the momentum into the next game and easily defeated Lucknow, going up 2-0 in the series. Game three in Lucknow would go into overtime once again, and Elora would again win, this time by a 5-4 score and take a 3-0 series lead. The Rocks would then complete the sweep, with a close 3-2 game four win in Elora, and advance to the "AA" finals.
The Rocks would play the to determine the "AA" championship, and the teams would split the first four games, each winning two on the road. Tavistock would take a 3-2 series lead as they won the fifth game 7-3, the first win by either team on home ice. Elora would return home for game six, and won a hard fought game by a score of 6-3, setting up a seventh game in Tavistock. The Royals got on the scoreboard first with a goal 1:37 into the game, however, the Rocks responded with three goals in a row, and would end up winning the game 7-3, and winning the 2006-07 WOAA Sr. "AA" Championship.
Elora would be the highest scoring team in the WOAA in 2007-08, scoring 197 goals, and the team would have its best regular season in team history, going 22-2-2, and earning 46 points. They would finish with the same point total as the Saugeen Shores Winterhawks, but the Rocks had one fewer win than Saugeen Shores, and finished the season as the second place team in the North Division.
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