Pembroke Lumber Kings

The Pembroke Lumber Kings are a Junior A ice hockey team based in Pembroke, Ontario. The Lumber Kings compete in the Central Canada Hockey League as a member of the West Division. The franchise is one of the "Original Five" teams of the league. Founded in 1964, the team folded in 1979, but came back in 1980. Since 1964, they play their home games at Pembroke Memorial Centre.
The Lumber Kings have won the most Bogart Cup championships of any CCHL franchise since its existence, including two in a row in 1983–84 and 1984–85, and five in a row between 2006–07 and 2010–11.. The Kings played their home games at Pembroke Memorial Centre from 1964 until 1979, for 15 seasons. They got sold to a new ownership group, and came back for the 1980–81 season, and moved into Pembroke Memorial Centre again.

History

The Pembroke Lumber Kings are the oldest member of the CCHL, having begun operations in 1961. However, in 1979–80 the Lumber Kings were suspended for one season and replaced with the Pembroke Royals. The Pembroke Lumber Kings were approved to rejoin the league for 1980–81.
The Pembroke Lumber Kings won a total of 14 Art Bogart Cup league championships between 1973 and 2011. Six of those championships came in the 1980s when the Kings were coached by Jim Farelli. Farelli coached 420 games for the Kings, the most of any coach in Lumber Kings history. His teams advanced to the Art Bogart Cup championship series eight consecutive years, winning six titles. This included three consecutive championships from 1987 to 1989, tying the record for longest streak set by the Cornwall Royals.
The Kings had previously won three Art Bogart Cups in the 1970s. The 1972–73 team was coached by Mac MacLean and made it to the Centennial Cup Canadian Junior A Final, losing 4 games to 1 to the Portage la Prairie Terriers. Under coach Bryan Murray the Kings won consecutive titles in 1977 and 1978. The 1977 team made it to the Centennial Cup Final, losing to the Prince Albert Raiders. Murray was fired by the Lumber Kings after the 1978 season. Three years later he was starting a long NHL coaching/general manager career as coach of the Washington Capitals.
The Lumber Kings broke their own league record by winning five consecutive Art Bogart Cup championships from 2007 to 2011, appearing in five Fred Page Cup tournaments for the Eastern Canada Junior A championships, winning in 2007 and 2011, and finishing as finalists in 2006, 2008, and 2010. In 2011, the Pembroke Lumber Kings became only the second team since the 1976 Rockland Nationals to win the National Junior A championship. The team was led by owner, coach and general manager Sheldon Keefe, who had purchased the Kings in June 2006.
Keefe announced on May 29, 2013, that he had sold the Pembroke Lumber Kings to former Calgary Flames player and Eganville native Dale McTavish. With Keefe no longer in charge of ownership, general management and coaching duties, the Lumber Kings' success began to fade away, despite making the league finals in 2015, losing to Carleton Place; and failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in 13 years in 2017.
The team was sold to Alex Armstrong in June 2019.

Notable alumni

Retired numbers

8 – Ben Reinhardt, winner of five CCHL championships, two Fred Page Cup championships, and one Royal Bank Cup championship.
11 – Gale Linton, killed in a car accident while reporting to training camp on October 1, 1972.
16 – Larry Mick, drafted by the Minnesota North Stars 13th overall in the 1967 NHL Amateur Draft.

Season by season record

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, SOL = Shootout Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = Points
denotes the removal of 9 points from Pembroke's totals by the CJHL for disciplinary reasons.

''The Lumber Kings lost their franchise prior to the start of the 1979–80 season for failing to remain in good standing with the league.''

Fred Page Cup

Eastern Canada championships

MHL - QAAAJHL - CCHL - Host

Round robin play with 2nd vs 3rd in semi-final to advance against 1st in the finals.

Year	Round Robin	Record	Standing	Semifinal	Gold Medal Game
1999	?, Restigouche River Rats ?-? ?, Coaticook Frontaliers ?-? ?, Kanata Valley Lasers ?-?	?-?-?	?? of 4	n/a	W, Restigouche River Rats 4–1 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup
2000 *	W, Coaticook Frontaliers 6–1 L, Halifax Oland Exports 6–8 L, Cornwall Colts 2–5	1–2–0	3rd of 4	L, Halifax Oland Exports 4–8	n/a
2006 *	W, Joliette Action 8–1 OTW, Woodstock Slammers 4–3 W, Hawkesbury Hawks 5–1	3–0–0	1st of 4	n/a	L, Joliette Action 2–4
2007	OTW, St. Jerome Panthers 2–1 W, Joliette Action 4–1 L, Truro Bearcats 5–1	2–1–0	1st of 4	n/a	W, St. Jerome Panthers 5–2 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup
2008	W, Weeks Crushers 2–1 OTW, Yarmouth Mariners 3–2 L, College Champain Cougars 1–2	2–1–0	1st of 4	n/a	L, Weeks Crushers 1–4
2009	L, Summerside Western Capitals 3–4 L, Dieppe Commandos 1–3 W, Sherbrooke Cougars 5–2	1–2–0	3rd of 4	L, Summerside Western Capitals 1–4	n/a
2010	OTW, Terrebonne Cobras 6–5 L, Brockville Braves 1–2 W, Woodstock Slammers 7–4	2–1–0	2nd of 4	W, Terrebonne Cobras 6–4	L, Brockville Braves 1–5
2011	W, Longueuil Collège Français 11–3 W, Summerside Western Capitals 9–5 L, Terrebonne Cobras 5–6	2–1–0	1st of 4	n/a	W, Longueuil Collège Français 6–3 Fred Page Cup Champions advance to Royal Bank Cup

Tournament host

Royal Bank Cup

Canadian national championships

Dudley Hewitt Champions - Central, Fred Page Champions - Eastern, Western Canada Cup Champions - Western, Western Canada Cup - Runners Up and Host

Round robin play with top 4 in semi-final and winners to finals.

Year	Round Robin	Record	Standing	Semifinal	Gold Medal Game
2007	L, Prince George Spruce Kings 2–5 W, Aurora Tigers 5–3 L, Camrose Kodiaks 0–3 W, Selkirk Steelers 4–2	2–2	4th of 5	OTL, Aurora Tigers 2–3	na
2011	L, Portage Terriers 2–5 W, Wellington Dukes 5–2 L, Camrose Kodiaks 1–2 L, Vernon Vipers 3–5	1–3	3rd of 5	W, Camrose Kodiaks 4–2	W, Vernon Vipers 2–0 Royal Bank Cup Champions

Tournament host