Alvinston Flyers Looking To Move To Petrolia

If the organization gets league approval, it looks as though the Alvinston Flyers will be calling Petrolia home next season as the puck drops for the Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League.

In a story first told by Petrolia and Central Lambton’s, The Independent, Flyers President and General Manager Dennis Meston told The Independent that the team submitted paperwork to the Ontario Hockey Association Tuesday.

The move would be pending both league and OHA approval.

Last season, an application for a new Junior C franchise was turned down for the community of Tecumseh, but the Great Lakes Junior C loop has made moves in the past, approving a move of Kingsville’s Junior C franchise to Amherstburg in 2013.

Petrolia has a long Junior hockey history, most recently being home to the Junior B Petrolia Jets until 2007-2008, when the team moved to Forest to become the Lambton Shores Predators.

The Petrolia Jets franchise played in the Great Lakes loop until 1989 as a Junior C franchise, bouncing between Junior C and Junior B previously.

Petrolia is currently home to home to the WOAA’s Senior Petrolia Squires.

The Alvinston Flyers were founded in 1988 as a Junior D team and were promoted to Junior C in 1994.