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Port Colborne Sailors

Pelham Panthers
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City Pelham, Ontario, Canada
League Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League
Division Golden Horseshoe
Founded c. 1940
Home arena Pelham Arena
Colors Green, Blue, and White
              
Owner(s) Tim Toffolo
General manager Scott Barnes
Head coach Tim Toffolo
Franchise history
1970-1973 Port Colborne Sailors
1973-1974 Port Colborne Swords
1974-1975 Port Colborne Kinsmen
1975-1979 Team Port Colborne
1979-1983 Port Colborne Sailors
1983-1985 Team Port Colborne
1985-1991 Port Colborne Schooners
1991-1995 Port Colborne Kinsmen
1995-2008 Port Colborne Sailors
2008-2014 Port Colborne Pirates
2014 Pelham Pirates
2014-Present Pelham Panthers

The Pelham Panthers, formerly the Port Colborne Pirates, are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Pelham, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Golden Horseshoe division of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.

The Port Colborne Recreationists were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association that played at the Junior B level through most of the 1940s. The Recreationists captured the 1943 Junior B championship, Sutherland Cup and were promoted to the Junior A level the following year where they competed for one full season. The Junior A team folded early in their second season and the Recreationists returned to Junior B hockey the following year.

The monikor "Sailors" dates back to the 1940s as well. The Port Colborne Sailors were one of the most successful franchises in the OHA Major Intermediate A Hockey League winning championships in 1949, 1950, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1975 and 1976.

Since 1970 the Sailors have spent most of their time in the Niagara Junior C Hockey League with the exception of 1975 through 1979 when the team participated in the Niagara District Junior B Hockey League. The team changed its name several times (Sailors, Swords, Kinsmen, Schooners) before returning to the familiar "Sailors" monikor that the team played as between 1995 and 2008. In 2009 the team rebranded itself one more time as the Port Colborne Pirates.

Sutherland Cups: 1943 (as the Port Colborne Recreationists)

In 2014, after decades in Port Colborne, the team relocated to Pelham. In November 2014, the team changed their nickname to the Panthers.


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