The 1985–86 OHL season was the sixth season of the
Ontario Hockey League
The Ontario Hockey League (OHL; ) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League, alongside the Western Hockey League and the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League. The league is for players ag ...
. Fifteen teams each played 66 games. The
Guelph Platers won the
J. Ross Robertson Cup, defeating the
Belleville Bulls
The Belleville Bulls were a junior ice hockey team, founded in 1981 and based in Belleville, Ontario. The team played in the Eastern Division of the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The team relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, ...
.
New Arena
Copps Coliseum (Hamilton)
The
Hamilton Steelhawks moved from the
Mountain Arena to
Copps Coliseum
Hamilton Arena (originally Copps Coliseum, later renamed FirstOntario Centre) is a sports and entertainment arena at the corner of Bay Street North and York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1985, it has a capacity of up to 19 ...
early in the season.
Regular season
Final standings
''Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title''
Leyden Division
Emms Division
Scoring leaders
Playoffs
Division quarter-finals
Leyden Division
=(1) Peterborough Petes vs. (6) Toronto Marlboros
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=(2) Belleville Bulls vs. (5) Cornwall Royals
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=(3) Oshawa Generals vs. (4) Kingston Canadians
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Emms Division
=(1) North Bay Centennials vs. (6) London Knights
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=(2) Guelph Platers vs. (5) Sudbury Wolves
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=(3) Windsor Compuware Spitfires vs. (4) Kitchener Rangers
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Division semi-finals
Leyden Division
=Round-Robin
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Emms Division
=Round-Robin
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Division finals
Leyden Division
=(1) Peterborough Petes vs. (2) Belleville Bulls
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Emms Division
=(2) Guelph Platers vs. (3) Windsor Compuware Spitfires
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J. Ross Robertson Cup
(E2) Guelph Platers vs. (L2) Belleville Bulls
Awards
1986 OHL Priority Selection
The
Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds held the first overall pick in the 1986 Ontario Priority Selection and selected
Troy Mallette from the Rayside-Balfour Midgets. Mallette was awarded the
Jack Ferguson Award, awarded to the top pick in the draft.
Below are the players who were selected in the first round of the 1986 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection.
See also
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List of OHA Junior A standings
This is a list of OHA standings and season-by-season summaries of the Ontario Hockey League, Ontario Hockey Association's Junior A division from 1933 to 1972, and its Tier I division from 1972 to 1974.
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* GP = games played
* W = wins
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List of OHL seasons
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
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1986 Memorial Cup
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1986 NHL Entry Draft
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1985 in sports
1985 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Alpine skiing
* 1984–85 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Alpine Skiing World Cup:
** Men's overall season champion: Marc Girardelli, Luxembourg
** Women's overall season champion: Michela Fig ...
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1986 in sports
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
** Spain and Portugal ent ...
References
HockeyDB
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