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Sydney Wolf Pack
Sydney Wolf Pack
City	Sydney
League	Australian Junior Ice Hockey League
Founded	18 September 2012
Home arena	Penrith Ice Palace
Owner(s)	New South Wales Ice Hockey Association
General manager	Miranda Ransome ; Nabil Fahmy
Head coach	Andrew Reynolds ; Steve Ransome
Captain	Dylan Alavert
Franchise history
2012–2013	Sydney Maple Leafs
2013–present	Sydney Wolf Pack
Championships
AJIHL Championships	2 (2013), (2015)
	Current season

The Sydney Wolf Pack are an Australian junior ice hockey team based in Sydney playing in the Australian Junior Ice Hockey League. They represent one of the two junior ice hockey teams from New South Wales currently playing in the AJIHL, which is the most elite level for ice hockey at a national level for ages between 16–20 years old.

Team history

AJIHL

The Sydney Maple Leafs were founded 18 September 2012 following the announcement by Ice Hockey Australia of the formation of the Australian Junior Ice Hockey League.^[1] The team is controlled by the New South Wales Ice Hockey Association.^[1] On 14 October 2012 it was announced that Sydney Bears player Steven Adams and Paul Kelly had signed on as coaches for the 2012–13 AJIHL season.^[2]

The first team in club history: For the 2012–13 AJIHL season^[2]^[3]

#	Name	Pos	Date of Birth	Acquired	Birthplace
19	Saxon Air	F	25 March 1995	2012	Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
17	Spencer Austin	D	5 March 1992	2012	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
18	Nolan Barlow	F	16 September 1994	2012
6	Adrian Braun	F	3 June 1994	2012
20	Dylan Burgess	G	8 March 1994	2012
1	Jake Burgess	G	26 June 1994	2012
13	Scott Clemie	F	16 December 1994	2012	Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom
9	Sam Cook	D	26 July 1993	2012	Sydney, Australia
12	Dexter Crowe	F	3 June 1996	2012	Sydney, Australia
25	Jonathan Hughes	G	7 June 1995	2012
5	Chris Johnson	F		2012
11	James Keating	F	2 March 1992	2012
16	Tyler Kubara	F	28 November 1994	2012	Wombarra, New South Wales, Australia
15	Samuel Lammert	F	26 July 1994	2012	Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
3	Ilman Lee	D	3 March 1994	2012
7	Riley Major	D	9 January 1996	2012
2	Kieran Poole	F	20 February 1996	2012
8	Cameron Rose	D	28 January 1994	2012
10	Jayden Ryan	F	21 October 1992	2012

AJIHL expansion

The follow-up season in the Australian Junior Ice Hockey League saw a lot of change via expansion and renaming of its existing teams. The Sydney Maple Leafs were renamed the Sydney Wolf Pack in September 2013.^[4]^[5] The changes were made in response to the National Hockey Leagues concern about the AJIHL using their team names and logos but also recognised the opportunity to create a new history for the teams through creating their own identity. In October 2013 the league expanded to six teams with two teams from Perth, the Sharks and the Pelicans, joining for the start of the 2013–14 season.^[6]

Logo and uniform

2012–2013 Sydney Maple Leafs

In their first year, and the inaugural AJIHL season, the Sydney Maple Leafs wore a uniform that resembled the NHL namesake Toronto Maple Leafs. The key difference with the logo design was the exclusion of the word Toronto within the leaf emblem. The jersey design and uniform otherwise bore close resemblance to the Toronto Maple Leaf design, with the AJIHL logo used for shoulder crests.^[7]

2013–present Sydney Wolf Pack

Season by season results

2012 – 2013

In the inaugural season of the Australian Junior Ice Hockey League, the Sydney Wolf Pack began as the Sydney Maple Leafs. The beginning of the regular season saw the team not winning a game with the closest contest being an overtime loss to the Sydney Lightning. The Sydney Maple Leafs would record their first win as a club on 8 December 2012 against the Sydney Lightning in a 2–1 victory. Both goals scored in this historic win were scored by forward Dexter Crowe in the 2nd period about 5 minutes apart.^[8]

After starting off without a win, the Sydney Maple Leafs would go on to win 4 out of their last 6 games, one of which was in overtime.

In the post season finals, the Sydney Maple Leafs would continue their improved from by defeating the Sydney Lightning by a convincing 7–2 scoreline in the semi-finals. The finals series would be against the Melbourne Red Wings in a best of 3 format. The Sydney Maple Leafs won the series 2–1 after winning the final game of the series 1–0 from a first period goal by forward Scott Clemie.^[9]

Season	GP	W	OTW	SOW	OTL	SOL	L	PTS	GF	GA	Finish
2012–13	14	4	0	0	2	0	8	24	34	52	3rd

Finals	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Finish
2013 Finals	4	3	1	0	1	24	9	AJIHL Champions

2013 – 2014

The follow-up season in the Australian Junior Ice Hockey League saw a lot of change via expansion and renaming of its existing teams. The Sydney Maple Leafs were renamed the Sydney Wolf Pack in September 2013.^[4]^[5] The changes were made in response to the National Hockey Leagues concern about the AJIHL using their team names and logos but also recognised the opportunity to create a new history for the teams through creating their own identity. In October 2013 the league expanded to six teams with two teams from Perth, the Sharks and the Pelicans, joining for the start of the 2013–14 season.^[6] The finals format of a best of 3 was discontinued and the league adopted a gold-silver-bronze format which saw the 4th place Sydney Wolf Pack miss out on post season competition.

Season	GP	W	OTW	SOW	OTL	SOL	L	PTS	GF	GA	Finish
2013–14	15	6	0	1	0	1	7	21	45	49	4th

Finals	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Finish
2014 Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Did not play

2014 – 2015

Season	GP	W	OTW	SOW	OTL	SOL	L	PTS	GF	GA	Finish
2014–15	15	7	0	2	0	0	8	24	30	34	4th

Finals	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	Finish
2015 Finals	2	2	1	0	0	8	7	AJIHL Champions

Players

Current roster

For the 2016–17 AJIHL season^[10]

#	Name	Pos	Date of Birth	Acquired	Birthplace
2	Alex Ross	F		2016
4	James Urweiss	F		2016
5	Luke Zvonicek	F	30 August 1996	2015
6	Dylan Lavery	F		2015
7	Harry Good	F		2015
8	Matthew Kopp	D		2016
9	Alberic Benjamin	F	4 June 2000	2016	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
11	Tom Roberts	D		2015
12	James Merinoe	D		2016
13	Lachlan McKenzie	F		2016
14	Alex Elias	D		2015
15	Danny Blazevic	D		2015
16	Luca Tramonte	F		2016
17	Brendan Kong	F	14 April 1994	2014
18	Nicholas Weiland	D		2016
19	Liam Chalker	D		2016
37	Jake Knott	F	21 June 1996	2013
1	Ignacy Benjamin	G	15 March 1999	2016

Captains

2014–15 Scott Clemie (C), Patrick Nadin (A)
2015–16 Patrick Nadin (C)
2016–17 Jake Knott(C), Luke Zvonicek (A), Brenden Kong (A)

Head coaches

The first head coach for the Sydney Maple Leafs in the inaugural year for the AJIHL was Steven Adams.^[11]

2012–13 Steven Adams
2013–14 Scott Stephenson
2014–15 Andrew Reynolds
2015–16 Amelia Matheson
2016–17 Amelia Matheson

Awards and trophies

References

^ ^a ^b Hewitt, Andrew (20 September 2012). "AJIHL Teams Announced". Hewitt Sports Network. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
^ ^a ^b Hewitt, Andrew (14 October 2012). "AJIHL rosters finalised". Hewitt Sports Network. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
^ "Sydney Maple Leafs". Pointstreak Sports Technologies. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Formerly the Sydney Maple Leafs". Sydney Wolf Pack. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Coaches Welcome the Sydney Sabres". Sydney Sabres. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b "AJIHL National Junior League Kicks Off in Perth". Ice Hockey WA. 21 October 2013. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ Hewitt, Andrew. "Maple Leafs Break Through As Lightning Crack". Retrieved 17 September 2015.
^ "Official Game Sheet". Pointstreak Sports Technologies. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
^ "Official Game Sheet". Pointstreak Sports Technologies. 10 March 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
^ "AJIHL rosters finalised". Ice Hockey NSW. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
^ Hewitt, Andrew. "AJIHL Rosters Finalised". Retrieved 17 September 2015.