Haileybury Comets

The Haileybury Comets were a Canadian ice hockey team from Haileybury, Ontario. The team played, among others, in the season 1910 in the National Hockey Association.

History

The Haileybury Comets was recorded in 1906 as a founding member of the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League. In this they first played for three years, having been financially supported by businessman Michael John O'Brien. After the team repeatedly failed in their efforts, the reigning Stanley Cup champion Ottawa to challenge Senator from the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, founded their owners O'Brien 1909, the National Hockey Association, in the Haileybury one was five founding members, while the ECAHA was dissolved and replaced by the Canadian Hockey Association, from the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Shamrocks after bad average attendance and the associated resolution of the league during the season in 1910 also changed in the NHA.

In its premiere season, the Haileybury Comets occupied the fifth place. Then the team lost the financial support of O'Brien and returned to the 1910/11 season back in the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League. When this was set in 1911, the Comets played four more years in the amateur league Timiskaming Senior Hockey League, before they were finally dissolved in 1915.

Known player

• Louis Berlinguette
• Art Ross