Just five months after seeing the IceHawks leave town, Milton has learned that it will soon have a junior hockey team of its own.
The Newmarket Hurricanes will be moving to the southern Ontario city and becoming the Milton Menace. The Hurricanes have been purchased by Milton resident Jason Tryfon, who has received approval from the Ontario Junior Hockey League to bring the team to his town.
The Menace will play at the Memorial Arena beginning in the fall of 2019, the home of the former IceHawks. The team has unveiled an appropriately menacing graphic design featuring a black hooded feature with gold lettering – an image that may soon be used in shirts, poster printing, and other Forms of merchandise.
Paige Dixon, a former front-office worker in the NHL, has joined the Menace as Director of Hockey Operations, with more staffing hires to be announced in the days to come. Milton will inherit a team that finished second in OJHL Northwest Conference in the 2018-19 season. The OJHL is one of the premier leagues at the junior A level, and features many players with hopes of playing in college hockey and beyond. Its 22 teams play a 54-game season that culminates in a playoff for the chance to compete with a team from Northern Ontario for the Dudley Hewitt Cup.
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