Ceremony in Oakville on Friday will add the primary 5 inductees to the corridor of fame
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ONTARIO JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
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The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) will have fun its historical past and excellence when it unveils the OJHL Corridor of Fame and inducts its first members this Friday, the league introduced at this time.
The ceremony will happen through the Centennial Cup nationwide junior A championships at Sixteen Mile Sports activities Advanced in Oakville.
“Celebrating the history of our league is critical in defining the future success of our league,” stated Marty Savoy, Commissioner of the OJHL. “The first induction class celebrates not only the success at the OJHL level, but also their amazing careers within the game.”
5 individuals will likely be inducted into the net Corridor Friday night time. Their names will likely be introduced throughout a dwell ceremony. The OJHL Corridor of Fame web site can even go dwell that night time: www.ojhlhalloffame.ca
The OJHL Corridor of Fame was established to honour and protect the historical past of the nice athletes and people who’ve made excellent contributions to the event and development of the OJHL and who’ve carried out with highest distinction within the OJHL and past.
The OJHL Corridor of Fame will spotlight the historical past of Provincial Junior A Hockey in Ontario and all of the pioneer leagues that constructed the OJHL into what the 24-team league is at this time.
The OJHL created the Corridor to memorialize the nice accomplishments of gamers, builders and all of the related individuals from the unique period of the league, from 1972 to 1987, to the trendy period, from 1993 to the current, and all the pieces in between.
The OJHL Corridor of Fame web site will function details about the inductees and the inductee classes, timelines and choice standards.
The location can even embrace info on the historical past of the leagues that laid the muse for the present-day OJHL.
Moreover, the location will protect league historic data, together with the itemizing of all-time leaders in statistical classes, award winners and the historical past of OJHL champions.
“We have put quite a bit of time in setting up the OJHL Hall of Fame,” said Rick Morocco, the OJHL’s vice-president of business affairs. “It is a great time for us to highlight our great athletes, builders and coaches while preserving our rich traditions that have made our league what it is today.”
Every year, the OJHL Corridor of Fame will induct as much as 5 people.
Nominees’ names may be put forth by anybody together with followers, workforce representatives previous and current, league supporters utilizing a nomination kind (obtainable on the Corridor of Fame web site) or by members of the OJHL Corridor of Fame Choice Committee.
The Choice Committee will likely be composed of people from Hockey Corridor of Fame, Ontario media, the OJHL Basis, league employees and OJHL Board of Governors.
Nominations will likely be welcome yearly from the beginning of the OJHL season, in early September, till the top of November.
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