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Kingston Frontenacs GameDay November 29, 2015

The official gameday program of the Kingston Frontenacs

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the franchise would celebrate many<br />

achievements. They had scoring<br />

champions (Tim Salmon in 1984)<br />

and the first OHL goalie to score a<br />

goal (Chris Clifford).<br />

An eight-game stint by a then<br />

16 year-old Paul Coffey would even<br />

give the team a tenuous connection<br />

to the Hockey Hall of Fame when<br />

the Oilers and Penguins superstar<br />

was later inducted as part of the<br />

Hall’s 2004 class of players.<br />

Sadly, the Canadians would<br />

never reach a Memorial Cup<br />

and after a mid-year change in<br />

ownership during the 1987-1988<br />

season–a season that finished with<br />

an ignominious OHL-record losing<br />

streak of 28 games–the <strong>Kingston</strong><br />

Canadians became a part of hockey<br />

history.<br />

The following year the team was<br />

renamed The Raiders but would<br />

only last only a single season before<br />

18 KINGSTON FRONTENACS GAMEDAY MAGAZINE

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