Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club

The Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our brand new web site.

The Fort William Hurricanes Hockey Club has been around the Thunder Bay area for seventy five years (incorporated in 1936). We have three clubs in our organization. From  Midget "AA",  Bantam "A" and Bantam "B". We would like to welcome all to our Webste, and hope you enjoy. We will updating information every day. The Fort William Hurricanes have been given their clubs with Thunder Bay Minor Hockey Assocation for the 2011-2012 upcoming hockey season they will include a Midget AA,  Bantam A. and Bantam B.  At this time we like to welcome all returning players and parents for the 2011-12 hockey season, good luck to all teams.

Come out to the rink and support your favorite Hurricane's club...

In 1950, the Fort William Hurricane Rangers of the Thunder Bay Junior Hockey League changed their name to the Fort William Hurricanes. By the mid 1960's, they were being called the Westfort Hurricanes. In 1972, the team became the Thunder Bay-Westfort Hurricanes playing in the Cam-Am Junior Hockey League, the forerunner to today's USHL. They returned to the Thunder Bay League in 1974. In 1975, they became the Degagne Hurricanes.

Have a look at Herk History (tab on the left) and take a trip down memory lane, reading stories of the 1950-1951 Hurricanes season, see if you can remember the names of the past, enjoy. Please remember all the articles written were taken from the local newspapers at the time, hopefully no one will be offended by the excerts.

The Fort William Hurricanes Midget AA's have left the city of Thunder Bay, to compete in their first Tournament of the year as they travel to Sault Ste.Marie for the Steel City International Tournament.
 The Herks will start the Tourney on Friday January 5th. as they will face the St.Ignace Firehawks at 1:30 pm. Game two is at 8:00 pm with the Scarborough  Young Bruins as the opponet, both games will be played at the John Rhodes Memorial Arena. Saturdays games will begin at 11:30 am at the Essar Arena and the Canes will take on the Porcupine Gold Kings, the final game of the round robin has the Hurricanes taking on an old rival, the Soo Northside Toyota Club, start time will be 9:00 pm, at the Rhodes Arena.
 The Semi-Finals will be played early Sunday morning as game time will be 7:30 am with the Championship contest will be at noon.

                                                  "GO HERKS GO" 

The Fort William Hurricanes arrived in Sault Ste.Marie hoping to start up the final third of the regular season on a winning, with a few wins at the Steel City Tournament, but it was not to be.
 The Herks would drop all four games of the round robin and failed to qualify for any kind of playoff action. It would also see them score only two goals in three games.
 Game one was one of  the best games of the Tournament, which saw the Canes take on a speedy team from Michigan, St.Ignace FireHawks. The Hurricanes outplayed and outshot the FireHawks throughout the contest but could not beat Brennon Wachter as they would fire 37 shots his way, while Conor Carr faced 22. After two scoreless periods, St.Ignace would win the opening faceoff of period three and a slight lapse by the Herks would cost them, as Ryan Marshall would take it to the house and slide one under Carr. The final 1-0 St.Ignace. Game star for the Hurricanes, Kevin Kurm.
 The Scarborough Young Bruins took it to the Herks early and often in the first and would score four times in six and a half minutes and would go on to defeat the Herks 7-1. Michael Bunting would lead the way for the Bruins as he would tally twice and add an assist. Andrew Crupi would net the Canes lone marker, Mitchell Zemanek would be tagged for the loss. It was a penalty filled affair as a total of 170 minutes were issued, Kevin Kurm was ejected for a hit from behind and given one game, while Johnny Parrott recieved a two game suspension for fighting. Game star for the Herks Kenny Turner. 
 Andrew Crupi would score his second of the tournament and gave the Hurricanes their first lead of the tourney but it lasted only four minutes as the Porcupine Gold Kings, Timmins, would score five unanswered goals enroute to a 5-1 drubbing of the Canes. Nicholas Sergerie would lead the Kings with two goals, even though allowing five goals goaltender Conor Carr was the game star as he would face 41 Gold King shots.
 Another penalty filled game was on hand for the final Herk game as they would be edged by Northside Toyota, Sault Ste.Marie, 7-5.
 Northside would open the scoring with two in the first, but with a minute forty left Andrew Crupi would score his third straight goal of the tournament cutting the lead to 2-1 after one. Kevin Kurm would score his first of the tourney while the canes were shorthanded making the score 2-2. But the home team woudl storm back scoring three times and it now was 5-2, Amos Sharun netted his first with just 0:58 seconds left making it 5-3 and twenty six seconds later Toyota would make it 6-3 after two. The final frame saw the Herks receive 46 minutes in penalties while Northside was assessed 24 minutes. Inbetween penalties saw the Toyota club score once more and it was 7-3, the Herks would reply with two power play goals, as Robbie Miault's first and Kyle Stone would also net his first closing out the scoring making the final 7-5. The Canes would get a total of 64 minutes, while Sault Ste.Marie accumulated 42 minutes. Andrew Crupi would get the game star award. Mitchell Zemenak was saddled with the loss but was faced with a barrage of shots and was still strong.
 If the Hurricanes could have brought their offence with them on the trip it would have made a difference and probably would have made a playoff spot. The team played well at times and with a little luck, who knows.
 Next up for the Canes will be back to regular season play, as they will take on the Volunteer Pool Bearcats on Wednesday.