A tumultuous offseason turned into a positive 56-game OJHL season for the Wellington Dukes – and hopefully a fulfilling Buckland Cup playoff run.
In his first year behind the bench after a couple decades behind BCHL benches, Kent Lewis helped lead his new club to 35 wins and a third-place finish in the East Conference.
The Wellington Dukes will make the Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs this season.
That line could have been written for every season since the Dukes’ junior hockey debut 35 years ago when they merged with the Belleville Bobcats franchise and relocated to Wellington in what was then the Metro Junior Hockey League. That streak sets a Canadian Junior Hockey League record, as confirmed by the league this week.
A large crowd at Lehigh Arena got treated to an outstanding hockey game on Friday night between the two Quinte OJHL rivals.
David Fournier bookended the scoring with the first and last goals, including the clincher in double overtime as the Trenton Golden Hawks upended the Wellington Dukes 4-3 to snuff out a comeback
The Wellington Dukes exploded on offence to hand the North York Rangers an unlucky 13th loss in a row on Thursday night. The Dukes piled 11 goals in the North York net in an 11-4 shellacking of the last-place Rangers, with Ryan Schaap
A wild and wacky victory for the Wellington Dukes sealed a season series split with the Haliburton County Huskies on Sunday.
Dimitri was born in Montreal and played for John Rennie high school where he wore the ‘C’. After also captaining the Choate Rosemary (prep school) Wild Boars, out of Wallingford, Connecticut, he played last season for the Drayton Valley Thunder in the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
