The Windsor Spitfires are a Canadian junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The team is based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1971, the franchise was promoted to the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League for the 1975–76 season. An unrelated Windsor Spitfires team, founded in 1946, moved to become the Hamilton Tiger Cubs in 1953, and later became the Erie Otters in 1996.
Slater Koekkoek (December 2013)
Renaud's memorial display at the WFCU Centre
Andrew Engelage looks on, wearing Spitfires throwback jersey (November 2008).
The Spitfires hosting the Sarnia Sting in 2023
The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 16–20. There are currently 20 teams in the OHL: seventeen in Ontario, two in Michigan, and one in Pennsylvania.
OHL All-Star Game opening face off at Belleville's Yardmen Arena on February 1, 2006