Peterborough Petes
| Peterborough Petes | |
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| City | Peterborough, Ontario |
| League | Ontario Hockey League |
| Conference | Eastern |
| Division | East |
| Founded | 1956–57 |
| Home arena | Peterborough Memorial Centre |
| Colours | Maroon, black, cream and white |
| General manager | Mike Oke |
| Head coach | Jody Hull |
| Affiliate(s) | Cobourg Cougars |
| Championships | 1979 Memorial Cup Champions |
| Website | www.gopetesgo.com |
| Franchise history | |
| 1951–1954 | Kitchener Greenshirts |
| 1954–1956 | Kitchener Canucks |
| 1956–present | Peterborough Petes |
The Peterborough Petes are a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. The team has played at the Peterborough Memorial Centre in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, since 1956, and is the oldest continuously operating team in the league.
The Petes were born on October 1, 1956 when the Kitchener Canucks relocated to Peterborough after the 1955–56 season. They would also become a sponsored junior team for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL. The Petes played their first game on November 4, 1956, and won their first game on November 8, 1956.
The Petes have produced a record number of National Hockey League players, including Hall of Famers Steve Yzerman, Bob Gainey, Larry Murphy, Scotty Bowman, Wayne Gretzky and Roger Neilson. The Petes have graduated the most players to the NHL of all current OHL teams with a total of 248.
The Petes have won the OHL Championship nine times, second-most in OHL history and the most in the postwar period. They won the Memorial Cup once, in 1979.
The team was sponsored by Toronto-Peterborough Transport (TPT) from 1956 to 1966. Scotty Bowman was brought in to coach by the Montreal Canadiens organization from the Ottawa Junior Canadiens, and led the team to a second-place finish in 1959. Peterborough defeated the Barrie Flyers, Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters and Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the playoffs to win their first OHA championship. Bowman and the TPT Petes went on to reach the Memorial Cup for the first time that year but fell to the Winnipeg Braves. The TPT Petes claimed their first Hamilton Spectator Trophy during the 1965-66 season, but were eliminated from the playoffs.
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