Chester Clippers Jr. Hockey Club

The Chester Clippers were an ice hockey team based in Chester, Nova Scotia, 45 minutes west of Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia.
The team was founded in 2008 by Jehad Assaff and a group of volunteers from Chester, Nova Scotia, before being sold to a North Sydney group headed by Jordan Evasuk-MacDonald in July 2013.
On September 13, 2008, the team showed that Chester could compete at the Junior C level by playing their first ever exhibition game and beat the Liverpool-based South Shore Wild by a score of 4–3. Tyler Arsenault opened up the scoring for Chester at 4:54 in the first period, Kyle Young and Chad Jollimore scored the second and third goal respectively. Bryce Andersen netted the game-winner at 16:28 of the 3rd period. This marked the first ever franchise win for Chester.
The Chester Clippers won the 2009–10 Ice Dogs Early Bird Pre-season Tournament with a 6–3 win over the Eastern Shore Jr. Mariners in the final game on September 27, 2009.
The Clippers continue to move in the right direction as they set many new league and franchise records in 2010–11. The Chester Clippers set new league regular season records for most goals scored (278) and least goals against (55), while setting a new franchise record for most wins in a season with 28.
In 2010-11, Clippers forward Justin Norris broke the league's scoring record by reaching 119 points in 29 games. While, defenseman Jordan Kenny set a new league record for points by a defender with 59 pts in 25 games. Justin Norris was selected as the Nova Scotia Jr. C Hockey League's Most Valuable Player in both the regular season and playoffs. Goaltender Alex Mader won the statistical award for Top Goals-against-average (GAA), posting a league-best 1.93 GAA during the regular season.
Fans witnessed more history in 2011–12, as the Clippers became the first team in league history to go undefeated in the regular season (28-0).http://www.southshorenow.ca/en/20120125/Sports/1554/Clippers-remain-undefeated-on-the-season.htm The Chester squad went 11–1 in the playoffs to win their first provincial championshiphttp://www.hockeyscene.com/hockeyscene/league_full_story.jsp?lid=17&nid=11976 and then went on to win the Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships.http://southshorenow.ca/old_site/archives/2013/010213/sports/Clippers_begin_new_year_set_in_first_place.html.php
In 2012-13, the Chester Clippers finished with 25 wins and 3 losses to capture their third consecutive regular season championship. Chester then went on to defeat Fundy (Quarter-finals), Shannon (Semi-finals), and Barrington (Finals) to win their second straight Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League and provincial championship.http://www.hockeyscene.com/hockeyscene/league_full_story.jsp?lid=17&nid=14494 The Clippers went 2-2 in the round-robin portion of the 2013 Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships and finished 4th out of 5 teams, to advance to the semi-finals, where they suffered a heart-breaking 5–4 loss to the eventual tournament champions, Hampton Hurricanes.
On Monday July 22, 2013, the Nova Scotia Junior "C" Hockey League's Board of Governors approved the transfer and relocation of the defending champion Clippers to a group based in Industrial Cape Breton.
The Clippers were scheduled to play out of Bedford for the 2013-14 season,http://www.southshorenow.ca/en/20130619/Sports/12949/Clippers-moving-to-Bedford.htm after relocating from Chester in June, however after numerous attempts the Bedford situation could not work out in the best interests of the club and the league. For the 2013–14 season, the franchise was intended to be known as the Northside Vics.http://www.hockeyscene.com/hockeyscene/homepage_full_story.jsp?lid=17&nid=14969 The Northside Vics or Victorias is common hockey club name in the area historically, including a Junior A club by that name in the 1970s Eastern Junior A Hockey League. However, the team was unable to take to the ice and has not returned to play.
==Yearly results==
Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss
Season 	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	OTL	SL	Points	Pct %	Goalsfor	Goalsagainst	Standing 	Playoffs
2008–09	30 	7 	22 	- 	1 	0 	15 	0.250	94 	212 	5th in Central 	Did not qualify
2009–10	28 	22 	6 	- 	0 	0 	44 	0.786	166 	79 	2nd in Central 	Lost Semi-final
2010–11	30 	28 	2 	- 	0 	0 	56 	0.933	278 	55 	1st in West, 1st Overall 	Lost Final
2011–12	28 	28 	0 	- 	0 	0 	56 	1.000	257 	39 	1st in Central, 1st Overall	Won League, Won Atlantics
2012–13	28 	25 	3 	- 	0 	0 	50 	0.892	183 	56 	1st Overall 	Won League
==External links==
* Official Chester Clippers Website
==References==
Category:Canadian ice hockey teams
Category:Established in 2008
Category:Nova Scotia Junior C Hockey League team
Category:Disestablished in 2013