North Bay Trappers (1962–1982)
defunct Canadian junior ice hockey team
The North Bay Trappers were a junior ice hockey team from North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The team played in the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Association from 1962 to 1972, and in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League from 1972 to 1982. Playing for 20 seasons, the Trappers won their league's playoffs championships in 1964, 1966, 1968, and 1976.
History
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Association
The Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA) resurrected junior ice hockey in Northern Ontario with a six-team Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Association (NOJHA) for the 1962–63 season. The new league followed the financial failure of the Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL), returning junior hockey to the region since the previous league folded prior to World War II. Former National Hockey League (NHL) player Pete Palangio purchased the equipment and jerseys of the defunct North Bay Trappers of the EPHL, and named Howie Parker the team's coach. Palangio and Parker had worked together as the sponsor and coach of the North Bay Junior Trappers and North Bay Rangers teams that won NOHA Junior B championships in the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons. The Trappers placed third during the 1962–63 season, won the first round of playoffs 3-games-to-2 versus the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, then lost the NOJHA final in four consecutive games to the Espanola Eagles.
In the 1963–64 season, the Trappers defeated the Espanola Eagles 4-games-to-3 in the first round of the playoffs, after losing game five in overtime then winning the last two games of the series. With a 6–0 victory in game seven, the Trappers won the NOJHA finals 4-games-to-3 versus the Sault Ste.
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