The New Hamburg Firebirds are a

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ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

team based in New Hamburg,

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, Canada. They are members of the

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of the

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History

The Hahns started out in the Interbrew Junior "C" Hockey League, and later joined the

Central Junior C Hockey League The Central Ontario Junior C Hockey League was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The "Central" played inter-league games with the Empire Junior "C" League. The champion of the Central c ...

. They made the jump up to the

Midwestern Junior B Hockey League The Mid-Western Junior Hockey League (MWJHL) was a junior ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association from 1973 until 2007. In 2007, the league became a division of the newly formed Greater Ontario Junior ...

in 1977 and stayed there until 1982Mid-Western Ontario OHA Jr. B Hockey League 25th Anniversary Program by J. Clark Hayman (2002) when they returned to Junior "C" in the NJCHL. While in the Central Jr. C league (now known as the Western Jr. C league), the Hahns won two

Clarence Schmalz Cup The Clarence Schmalz Cup is the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior "C" ice hockey championship and championship trophy. The champions of the Provincial Junior Hockey League (PJHL) are awarded the Cup. The PJHL was formed in 2016 from the forme ...

s as All-Ontario champions - 1963 and 1967. After some uncertainty in the Summer of 2013, the Firebirds ended up in the new

Midwestern Junior C Hockey League The Midwestern Junior C Hockey League (MWJCHL) was a Canadian Junior ice hockey league in Southwestern Ontario. The MWJCHL was a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada. Its champion competed for the Clarence Schmalz Cup, ...

. In 2016 the eight Junior 'C' hockey leagues in Southern Ontario amalgamated under one banner as the

. The

became the Doherty Division and were aligned in the Southern Conference with the Bloomfield division.

Season-by-season standings

*1963-1973Simcoe Reformer microfilms. http://www.simcoereformer.ca/ *1973-1977 *1977-1982 *1982-2002 *2002-2009

Notable alumni

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* John Tanner

External links

New Hamburg Firebirds official websiteOHA Homepage

References

{{OHA-C Niagara Junior C Hockey League teams