The Galt Rockets were a junior ice hockey team based in Galt, Ontario, now a part of the city of Cambridge. They played in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) from 1947 to 1949. Their home arena was the Galt Arena Gardens.^[1]

The team originated as the Galt Canadians, then became Galt Red Wings when affiliated as a farm team for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.^[2] When the affiliation with the Detroit Red Wings was cancelled, Galt affiliated with the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey League as of the 1947–48 OHA season.^[3]

The Rockets won only 11 games during the 1948–49 OHA season, and did not qualify for the playoffs.^[4] After the ast-place finish in a nine-team league, the Chicago Black Hawks became the sponsors as of the 1949–40 OHA season, with the junior team playing as the Galt Black Hawks.^[5]

National Hockey League alumni

From the Rockets, four players graduated to play in the National Hockey League:

Season-by-season results

Regular season and playoffs results:^[9]

Legend: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

References

Further reading

• Jones, Todd (2005). The History of Cambridge Hockey. Cambridge, Ontario. ISBN 9780973956504.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)