Valley Wildcats (2013)

The Valley Wildcats are a Canadian junior ice hockey franchise from the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia. The team is a member of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League and plays in the EastLink Division. They play their home games in the Kings Mutual Century Centre in Berwick, Nova Scotia.
==History==
The Antigonish Bulldogs were founded in 1967 as members of the Antigonish-Pictou-Colchester Junior B Hockey League. After two seasons the league became the Northumberland Junior B Hockey League. In 1974, the Bulldogs became a founding member of what became the Eastern Junior A Hockey League, but returned to the Northumberland League in 1975. The Bulldogs would win league titles and provincial titles in 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985. They would also win the Don Johnson Cup as Atlantic Junior B Champions in 1983 and 1984, the first team to ever win the Cup back-to-back. In 1987 they jumped to the Metro Valley Junior A League, which became the MJAHL in 1991.
The franchise was known as the Antigonish Bulldogs for 40 years. After it was decided that operating in Antigonish, Nova Scotia was no longer viable, the franchise was sold to a Metro Halifax group and then relocated to that city in the summer of 2008. The team's nickname, then, as the Halifax Lions was announced on August 22, 2008. The name is a tribute to the successful Halifax Lions teams of the 1980s. 
In 2010, the team was relocated to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and renamed again as the Metro Marauders. Two years later, it was renamed the Metro Shipbuilders.
In 2013 it was announced that the Halifax Regional Municipality was losing Junior A hockey, due to low attendance rates in the area. The Metro franchise's move to the valley area of Nova Scotia was confirmed by the league's board of governors ahead of the 2013 MHL draft on June 15. The franchise was renamed the Valley Wildcats and was based in Kentville
On April 5, 2014 it was announced that the franchise would be relocating once again, this time from Kentville to Berwick, Nova Scotia but will remain as the Valley Wildcats.
==Season-by-season record==
Season 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OL 	GF 	GA 	P 	Results 	Playoffs 	
1967-68	18 	7 	10 	1 	- 	-- 	-- 	15 	2nd APCJBHL 	Lost Final 	
1968-69	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available 	Statistics Not Available
1969-70	24 	13 	9 	2 	- 	103 	92 	28 	3rd NJBHL 	Lost Semi-final 	
1970-71	30 	14 	13 	3 	- 	-- 	-- 	31 	3rd NJBHL 	Lost Semi-final 	
1971-82	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available 	Statistics Not Available
1982-83	24 	16 	7 	1 	- 	-- 	-- 	33 	1st NJBHL 	Won League, Won DJC 	
1983-85	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available	Statistics Not Available 	Statistics Not Available
1985-86	30 	19 	9 	2 	- 	147 	119 	40 	2nd NJBHL 	 	
1986-87	40 	11 	21 	8 	- 	171 	222 	30 	4th MVJHL 	 	
1987-88	40 	21 	16 	3 	- 	202 	171 	45 	3rd MVJHL 	 	
1988-89	40 	20 	13 	7 	- 	209 	186 	47 	3rd MVJHL 	 	
1989-90	38 	24 	12 	2 	- 	230 	181 	50 	3rd MVJHL 	 	
1990-91	40 	21 	12 	7 	- 	210 	172 	49 	3rd MVJHL 	 	
1991-92	46 	25 	14 	7 	- 	256 	195 	57 	2nd MJAHL 	 	
1992-93	48 	23 	16 	7 	2 	235 	179 	55 	3rd MJAHL 	Won League 	
1993-94	48 	32 	13 	2 	1 	273 	177 	67 	2nd MJAHL 	Won League 	
1994-95	48 	27 	14 	7 	0 	215 	202 	61 	2nd MJAHL 	 	
1995-96	54 	32 	19 	2 	1 	288 	231 	67 	2nd MJAHL 	 	
1996-97	56 	30 	21 	3 	2 	287 	264 	65 	4th MJAHL 	 	
1997-98	51 	19 	25 	3 	4 	229 	244 	45 	7th MJAHL 	 	
1998-99	48 	29 	16 	3 	- 	241 	149 	64 	3rd MJAHL 	 	
1999-00	52 	34 	12 	5 	1 	273 	181 	74 	3rd MJAHL 	 	
2000-01	52 	33 	16 	2 	1 	260 	187 	69 	2nd MJAHL 	Won League 	
2001-02	52 	4 	41 	4 	3 	123 	296 	15 	10th MJAHL 	 	
2002-03	52 	24 	27 	1 	0 	210 	226 	49 	7th MJAHL 	 	
2003-04	52 	20 	25 	3 	4 	166 	206 	47 	7th MJAHL 	 	
2004-05	56 	23 	25 	5 	3 	200 	216 	54 	8th MJAHL 	 	
2005-06	56 	30 	22 	0 	4 	196 	182 	65 	5th MJAHL 	Lost in division semi-final 	
2006-07	58 	28 	21 	0 	9 	218 	229 	65 	7th MJAHL 	Lost in division quarter-Final 	
2007-08	58 	6 	48 	- 	4 	105 	299 	16 	12th MJAHL 	 	
2008-09	54 	10 	39 	- 	5 	159 	288 	25 	10th MJAHL 	 	
2009-10	50 	22 	24 	- 	4 	178 	199 	48 	6th MJAHL 	Lost Quarter-final 	
2010-11	52 	27 	21 	- 	4 	173 	177 	58 	7th MHL 	Lost Mini Series 	
2011-12	52 	27 	19 	- 	6 	202 	192 	60 	6th MHL 	Lost Quarter-final 	
2012-13	52 	4 	46 	- 	2 	124 	287 	10 	11th MHL 	DNQ 	
2013-14	52 	19 	28 	- 	5 	141 	204 	43 	9th MHL 	Lost Quarter Final 	
2014-15	48 	25 	16 	- 	7 	187 	164 	57 	6th MHL 	Lost Semi-Final 	
2015-16	48 	26 	17 	- 	5 	179 	165 	57 	6th MHL, 2nd South 	Lost division semifinal 	
Season 	GP 	W 	L 	OL 	SL 	GF 	GA 	P 	Results 	Playoffs 	
2016-17	50 	12 	31 	4 	3 	140 	245 	31 	T-11th MJAHL, 6th South 	DNQ 	
2017-18	50 	17 	31 	1 	1 	140 	196 	36 	10th MJAHL, 6th South 	DNQ 	
2018-19	50 	6 	40 	4 	0 	93 	240 	16 	6th South 	DNQ 	
2019-20	52 	11 	37 	4 	- 	130 	227 	26 	6th South 	DNQ 	
2020-21	32 	9 	21 	2 	0 	87 	139 	.313 	6th South 	Playoffs suspended 	
2021-22	38 	19 	6 	2 	1 	109 	119 	41 	4th South 	W, DSF 4-2 (MarinersL, DF 3-4 (Bearcats	
2022-23	52 	22 	26 	3 	1 	181 	209 	48 	3rd South 	L, DSF 2-4 (Bearcats 	
2023-24	52 	10 	40 	2 	0 	180 	324 	22 	6th South 	DNQ 	
==External links==
*Official Wildcats website
Category:established in 1967
Category:Maritime Junior A Hockey League teams