New England Junior Huskies
| Islanders Hockey Club | |
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| City | Tyngsborough, Massachusetts |
| League | USPHL |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Home arena | Premier Team - Lawler Arena Elite/USP3 - Skate 3 |
| Colors | Navy, Orange and White |
| General manager | Sean Tremblay |
| Head coach | Sean Tremblay (Premier) Tim Kyrkostas (Elite) Brian Umansky (USP3) |
| Franchise history | |
| 1993–2000 | Tyngsboro Huskies |
| 2000–2004 | Lowell Junior Lock Monsters |
| 2004–2012 | New England Junior Huskies |
| 2012–present | Islanders Hockey Club |
The Islanders Hockey Club are an American junior ice hockey organization from Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. They field teams in the Tier III Junior A United States Premier Hockey League Premier Division, Elite Division, and USP3 Division, as well as in youth leagues.
The New England Huskies Junior Hockey Club is a non-profit 501-3 organization which chartered in 1993 as the Tyngsboro Huskies as a charter member of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL). The New England Junior Huskies trace their roots to 1981 and Fitchburg's "Wallace Wallopers" of the now-defunct New England Junior Hockey League (NEJHL). The team was renamed the Tyngsboro Huskies in 1993when it joined the EJHL and renamed again in 2000 to the Lowell Junior Lock Monsters, before becoming the New England Junior Huskies in 2004.
The stated purpose of the program is to provide a vehicle for athletes to develop as hockey players and to use these gifts to further their educational careers. Players are prepared for the long-term future as productive citizens while being constantly reminded to give the game of hockey its due respect for lessons learned. All Junior Huskies players are required to be in school and/or work, and are required to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) tutorial classes that are provided by the organization.
In September 2010, the New England Huskies and the Middlesex Islanders announced that their programs would be merging creating one of the premier developmental and competitive hockey programs in New England. In 2012, the program announced that they were becoming the Islanders Hockey Club.
The next major change for the Islanders was in the fall of 2012 when they announced that they would be one of the founding members of the new United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL).
Before the 2011–12 season USA Hockey had split Tier III junior hockey into Junior A and B divisions. Their former Junior A team now competes in the Premier Division of the USPHL. Prior to the 2013–14 season, the Islanders Junior A team were members of the Northern Division of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL).
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