The Brantford Lions were a Canadian junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association, based in

Brantford Brantford ( 2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independ ...

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. The Lions played at the Junior A level from 1933 to 1936, and again from 1941 to 1944. In the intermediate years, the played at the Junior B level, from 1936 to 1941, and again from 1944 to 1946. They were Junior B Ontario champions in the 1940–41 season. Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Bill Quackenbush played for the Lions in 1941–42. That season, Bob Wiest led the league in scoring, winning the

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with 40 goals and 28 assists in 40 games. The same year, Branford finished first place in the OHA for the regular season, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to the defending champions, the Oshawa Generals. The Lions were runners-up to the

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in 1943, but against lost to the Oshawa Generals.

NHL alumni

;Junior A alumni ;Junior B alumni

Yearly results

References

Sport in Brantford Defunct Ontario Hockey League teams 1933 establishments in Ontario 1946 disestablishments in Ontario {{Ontario-icehockey-team-stub