Mississauga Steelheads

The Mississauga Steelheads are a Canadian ice hockey franchise from Mississauga in the province of Ontario. The team was formed in May 2012 from the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors and plays in one of the three highest Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League ( OHL ) since the 2012/13 season.

History

In May 2012, the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors of team owner Eugene Melnyk to the Mississauger entrepreneur Elliott Kerr and David Livingston were sold. Subsequently, more than 1400 people took part in the vote for a new franchise name. After two weeks and over 110 different proposals of the new epithet steelhead was selected May 24, 2012 finally. The name is inspired by the so-called steelhead trout, which has its headquarters and in local Credit River. The fish also adorns the first logo of the team, which was released a week later.

The Steelheads took in the 2012/13 Ontario Hockey League season on the game mode and achieved in their first season with an eighth place in the OHL Eastern Conference to qualify for the play-offs, where they in the first round of the Belleville Bulls documents.

Season statistics

Note: GP = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses by SOL = Shootout Losses by, Pts = Points, GF = Goals Scored, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalty minutes