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Pembroke Lumber Kings | |
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City | Pembroke, Ontario, Canada |
League | Central Canada Hockey League |
Division | Yzerman |
Founded | 1964 |
Operated | 1964–79, 1980–present |
Home arena | Pembroke Memorial Centre |
Colours | Red and White |
Owner(s) | Alex Armstrong |
General manager | Alex Armstrong |
Head coach | Alex Armstrong |
The Pembroke Lumber Kings are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pembroke, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Central Canada Hockey League and are the winningest team in CCHL (formerly CJHL) history as well as 2011 Royal Bank Cup National Junior A Champions.
The Pembroke Lumber Kings are the oldest member of the CCHL, having begun operations in 1961. However, in 1979–80 the Lumber Kings were suspended for one season[why?] and replaced with the Pembroke Royals. The Pembroke Lumber Kings were approved to rejoin the league for 1980–81.
The Pembroke Lumber Kings won a total of 14 Art Bogart Cup league championships between 1973 and 2011. Six of those championships came in the 1980s when the Kings were coached by Jim Farelli. Farelli coached 420 games for the Kings, the most of any coach in Lumber Kings history. His teams advanced to the Art Bogart Cup championship series eight consecutive years, winning six titles. This included three consecutive championships from 1987 to 1989, tying the record for longest streak set by the Cornwall Royals (1966–1968).
The Kings had previously won three Art Bogart Cups in the 1970s. The 1972–73 team was coached by Mac MacLean and made it to the Centennial Cup Canadian Junior A Final, losing 4 games to 1 to the Portage la Prairie Terriers. Under coach Bryan Murray the Kings won consecutive titles in 1977 and 1978. The 1977 team made it to the Centennial Cup Final, losing to the Prince Albert Raiders. Murray was fired by the Lumber Kings after the 1978 season. Three years later he was starting a long NHL coaching/general manager career as coach of the Washington Capitals.
The Lumber Kings broke their own (shared) league record by winning five consecutive Art Bogart Cup championships from 2007 to 2011, appearing in five Fred Page Cup tournaments for the Eastern Canada Junior A championships (2006 as hosts), winning in 2007 and 2011, and finishing as finalists in 2006, 2008, and 2010. In 2011, the Pembroke Lumber Kings became only the second team since the 1976 Rockland Nationals to win the National Junior A championship. The team was led by owner, coach and general manager Sheldon Keefe, who had purchased the Kings in June 2006.[1]
Keefe announced on May 29, 2013, that he had sold the Pembroke Lumber Kings to former Calgary Flames player (9 games) and Eganville native Dale McTavish.[2] With Keefe no longer in charge of ownership, general management and coaching duties, the Lumber Kings' success began to fade away, despite making the league finals in 2015, losing to Carleton Place; and failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in 13 years in 2017.
The team was sold to Alex Armstrong in June 2019.
Three books have been written about the history of the Pembroke Lumber Kings, two by author Harold Garton which primarily cover senior hockey in Pembroke until senior hockey ended in the early 1960s, and one by Jamie Bramburger which covers both junior and senior Lumber Kings hockey from 1905 to 2018. Garton's books are called Hockey Town Canada and Hockey Town Canada: The Golden Years; Bramburger's book is titled Go Kings Go! A Century of Pembroke Lumber Kings Hockey. Sheldon Keefe wrote the afterword for Bramburger's book.[citation needed]
This section needs to be updated.(October 2021) |
Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, SOL = Shootout Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
Season | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | Finish | Playoff Results | |
1958–59 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | --- | -- | -- | 20 | 3rd IPJHL | Won League | |
1959–60 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | --- | 122 | 93 | 26 | 3rd IPJHL | Lost final | |
1960–61 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | --- | 104 | 66 | 28 | 1st IPJHL | Won League | |
1961–62 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 4 | --- | -- | -- | 36 | 3rd OHDJHL | Lost final | |
1962–63 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 2 | --- | 180 | 128 | 42 | 3rd OHDJHL | Lost semi-final | |
1963–64 | 32 | 22 | 8 | 2 | --- | -- | -- | 46 | 2nd OHDJHL | Lost final | |
1964–65 | 35 | 17 | 12 | 6 | --- | 171 | 146 | 40 | 4th CJHL | Lost quarter-final | |
1965–66 | 36 | 27 | 9 | 0 | --- | 203 | 175 | 54 | 3rd CJHL | Lost semi-final | |
1966–67 | 50 | 18 | 24 | 8 | --- | 179 | 234 | 44 | 4th CJHL | Lost semi-final | |
1967–68 | 39 | 15 | 18 | 6 | --- | 158 | 174 | 36 | 4th CJHL | Lost semi-final | |
1968–69 | 40 | 13 | 23 | 4 | --- | 146 | 149 | 30 | 3rd CJHL | Lost final | |
1969–70 | 40 | 13 | 21 | 6 | --- | 136 | 176 | 32 | 3rd CJHL | ||
1970–71 | 48 | 13 | 34 | 1 | --- | 164 | 254 | 27 | 5th CJHL | ||
1971–72 | 48 | 20 | 26 | 2 | --- | 206 | 220 | 42 | 4th CJHL | ||
1972–73 | 55 | 47 | 4 | 4 | --- | 368 | 183 | 98 | 1st CJHL | Won League, won HDMT | |
1973–74 | 50 | 26 | 20 | 4 | --- | 235 | 215 | 56 | 3rd CJHL | ||
1974–75 | 50 | 28 | 13 | 9 | --- | 280 | 215 | 65 | 1st CJHL | Lost semi-final | |
1975–76 | 50 | 16 | 28 | 6 | --- | 209 | 310 | 38 | 6th CJHL | ||
1976–77 | 50 | 28 | 17 | 5 | --- | 282 | 223 | 61 | 2nd CJHL | Won League, won HDMT | |
1977–78 | 48 | 31 | 13 | 4 | --- | 284 | 220 | 66 | 1st CJHL | Won League | |
1978–79 | 48 | 21 | 23 | 4 | --- | 254 | 262 | 46 | 4th CJHL | ||
1979–80 | Franchise Suspended | ||||||||||
1980–81 | 50 | 13 | 32 | 5 | --- | 185 | 219 | 31 | 5th CJHL | ||
1981–82 | 50 | 25 | 20 | 5 | --- | 259 | 190 | 55 | 3rd CJHL | Won League | |
1982–83 | 48 | 29 | 16 | 3 | --- | 237 | 164 | 61 | 2nd CJHL | ||
1983–84 | 54 | 25 | 20 | 9 | --- | 348 | 295 | 59 | 4th CJHL | Won League | |
1984–85 | 54 | 38 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 355 | 213 | 79 | 1st CJHL | Won League | |
1985–86 | 60 | 42 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 376 | 238 | 78* | 2nd CJHL | ||
1986–87 | 54 | 39 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 323 | 179 | 83 | 1st CJHL | ||
1987–88 | 56 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 395 | 217 | 88 | 2nd CJHL | ||
1988–89 | 56 | 39 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 319 | 195 | 83 | 1st CJHL | ||
1989–90 | 56 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 3 | 218 | 280 | 49 | 5th CJHL | ||
1990–91 | 54 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 220 | 221 | 56 | 6th CJHL | ||
1991–92 | 57 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 291 | 274 | 63 | 5th CJHL | ||
1992–93 | 57 | 29 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 285 | 264 | 65 | 7th CJHL | ||
1993–94 | 57 | 30 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 293 | 292 | 66 | 6th CJHL | ||
1994–95 | 53 | 26 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 290 | 272 | 60 | 4th CJHL | ||
1995–96 | 54 | 18 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 237 | 290 | 43 | 4th in Yzerman | ||
1996–97 | 53 | 22 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 166 | 197 | 51 | 5th in Robinson | ||
1997–98 | 56 | 14 | 34 | 8 | 3 | 215 | 255 | 39 | 5th in Yzerman | ||
1998–99 | 54 | 20 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 202 | 242 | 43 | 5th in Yzerman | ||
1999–00 | 56 | 23 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 244 | 255 | 51 | 5th in Yzerman | ||
2000–01 | 55 | 33 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 261 | 184 | 73 | 1st in Yzerman | ||
2001–02 | 55 | 27 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 236 | 207 | 64 | 2nd in Yzerman | ||
2002–03 | 55 | 16 | 33 | 6 | 2 | 228 | 265 | 40 | 4th in Yzerman | Did not Qualify | |
2003–04 | 55 | 23 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 217 | 242 | 50 | 4th in Yzerman | Did not Qualify | |
2004–05 | 57 | 37 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 236 | 169 | 80 | 2nd in Yzerman | Lost semi-finals | |
2005–06 | 59 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 320 | 116 | 102 | 1st in Yzerman | Lost semi-finals, Hosted FPC | |
2006–07 | 55 | 41 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 261 | 133 | 86 | 1st in Yzerman | Won League, won FPC | |
2007–08 | 60 | 46 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 281 | 138 | 95 | 1st CJHL | Won League | |
Season | GP | W | L | OTL | SOL | GF | GA | Pts | Finish | Playoff Results | |
2008–09 | 60 | 43 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 248 | 145 | 90 | 2nd CJHL | Won League | |
2009–10 | 62 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 288 | 144 | 105 | 2nd CJHL | Won League | |
2010–11 | 62 | 51 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 300 | 142 | 104 | 1st CCHL | Won League, won FPC, won RBC | |
2011–12 | 62 | 32 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 184 | 177 | 70 | 6th CCHL | Lost semi-final | |
2012–13 | 62 | 38 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 235 | 185 | 80 | 5th CCHL | Lost quarter-final | |
2013–14 | 62 | 37 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 229 | 184 | 80 | 4th CCHL | Lost semi-final | |
2014–15 | 62 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 266 | 174 | 91 | 2nd of 6 Yzerman 3 of 12 CCHL |
Won quarterfinal 4-1 (Braves) Won semifinal 4-3 (Jr. Senators) Lost finals 1-4 (Canadians) | |
2015–16 | 62 | 34 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 197 | 163 | 73 | 3rd of 6 Yzerman 8th of 12 CCHL |
Lost quarterfinal 1-4 (Canadians) | |
2016–17 | 62 | 22 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 165 | 220 | 46 | 6th of 6 Yzerman 12th of 12 CCHL |
Did not qualify | |
2017–18 | 62 | 32 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 213 | 223 | 69 | 4th of 6 Yzerman 7th of 12 CCHL |
Lost quarterfinal 2-4 (Jr. Senators) | |
2018-2019 | 62 | 27 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 188 | 232 | 55 | 5th of 6 Robinson 10th of 12 CCHL |
Did not qualify | |
2019-2020 | 62 | 32 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 187 | 215 | 67 | 4th of 6 Robinson 7th of 12 CCHL |
Playoffs suspended Covid-19 | |
2020-2021 | |||||||||||
2021-2022 | 55 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 167 | 159 | 64 | 4th of 6 Robinson 6th of 12 CCHL |
Lost in quarterfinal () | |
2022-2023 | 55 | 10 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 132 | 248 | 25 | 6th of 6 Robinson 12th of 12 CCHL |
missed playoffs | |
2023-2024 | 55 | 24 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 146 | 179 | 55 | 4th of 6 Robinson 8th of 12 CCHL |
Lost Quarterfinal 2-4 (Navan Grads) |
(*) denotes the removal of 9 points from Pembroke's totals by the CJHL for disciplinary reasons.
The Lumber Kings lost their franchise prior to the start of the 1979-80 season for failing to remain in good standing with the league.[3]
Eastern Canada Championships
MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host
Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.
Year | Round Robin | Record | Standing | Semifinal | Gold Medal Game |
1999 | ?, Restigouche River Rats ?-? ?, Coaticook Frontaliers ?-? ?, Kanata Valley Lasers ?-? |
?-?-? | ?? of 4 | n/a | W, Restigouche River Rats 4-1 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup |
2000 * | W, Coaticook Frontaliers 6-1 L, Halifax Oland Exports 6-8 L, Cornwall Colts 2-5 |
1-2-0 | 3rd of 4 | L, Halifax Oland Exports 4-8 | n/a |
2006 * | W, Joliette Action 8-1 OTW, Woodstock Slammers 4-3 W, Hawkesbury Hawks 5-1 |
3-0-0 | 1st of 4 | n/a | L, Joliette Action 2-4 |
2007 | OTW, St. Jerome Panthers 2-1 W, Joliette Action 4-1 L, Truro Bearcats 5-1 |
2-1-0 | 1st of 4 | n/a | W, St. Jerome Panthers 5-2 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup |
2008 | W, Weeks Crushers 2-1 OTW, Yarmouth Mariners 3-2 L, College Champain Cougars 1-2 |
2-1-0 | 1st of 4 | n/a | L, Weeks Crushers 1-4 |
2009 | L, Summerside Western Capitals 3-4 L, Dieppe Commandos 1-3 W, Sherbrooke Cougars 5-2 |
1-2-0 | 3rd of 4 | L, Summerside Western Capitals 1-4 | n/a |
2010 | OTW, Terrebonne Cobras 6-5 L, Brockville Braves 1-2 W, Woodstock Slammers 7-4 |
2-1-0 | 2nd of 4 | W, Terrebonne Cobras 6-4 | L, Brockville Braves 1-5 |
2011 | W, Longueuil Collège Français 11-3 W, Summerside Western Capitals 9-5 L, Terrebonne Cobras 5-6 |
2-1-0 | 1st of 4 | n/a | W, Longueuil Collège Français 6-3 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup |
* Tournament Host
CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Dudley Hewitt Champions - Central, Fred Page Champions - Eastern, Western Canada Cup Champions - Western, Western Canada Cup - Runners Up and Host
Round robin play with top 4 in semi-final and winners to finals.
Year | Round Robin | Record | Standing | Semifinal | Gold Medal Game |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | L, Prince George Spruce Kings 2-5 W, Aurora Tigers 5-3 L, Camrose Kodiaks 0-3 W, Selkirk Steelers 4-2 |
2-2 | 4th of 5 | OTL, Aurora Tigers 2-3 | na |
2011 | L, Portage Terriers 2-5 W, Wellington Dukes 5-2 L, Camrose Kodiaks 1-2 L, Vernon Vipers 3-5 |
1-3 | 3rd of 5 | W, Camrose Kodiaks 4-2 | W, Vernon Vipers 2-0 Royal Bank Cup Champions |
* Tournament Host