The team was based in Brampton, Ontario and started playing in 1998. An attendance that was never healthy on a regular basis to begin with was declining in Brampton. Butler then signed OA goaltender Cody St.Jacques and traded veteran defenceman Kyle Pereira and a draft pick to Guelph for rookie import goaltender Matej Machovsky. The Brampton Battalion was a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. Team History and Standings The 2005–06 season would become the best season in club history; however, the season didn’t start off that way. The team set a franchise low in goals against with only 181, but also set the franchise low for goals for with just 167. the Battalion were covered by local television Rogers Community Cable 10 and the local newspaper, The Battalion began play for the 1998–99 OHL season in the Midwest Division of the Western Conference. The Battalion played their first game at the Powerade Centre on October 9, 1998 losing to the Kitchener Rangers by a score of 5-1. The game went to double overtime with the Wolves scoring a power play goal to end Brampton’s season. The Brampton Battalion was a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. The Battalion finished the season with a record of 34-25-3-6 finishing second in the Central Division and fourth in the Eastern Conference setting up a rematch of the first round from 2012 with the Sudbury Wolves. In the first round of the playoffs the Battalion knocked off the Belleville Bulls in six games before having to face the Barrie Colts in round 2. BeNeLiga The Battalion would take on the 4th place Guelph Storm in the first round of the playoffs and came out on top by sweeping the Storm in 4 games for the first playoff series win in club history. Cody Hodgson missed most of the season with a back injury. Franchise owner Scott Abbott indicated that the team will still be named Battalion in North Bay, mentioning the strong military history the city has. The Battalion would win the last 14 games of the regular season to establish a franchise record for straight wins (a record that eventually fell during the 2008–09 season) to finish the season with a record of 44-21-1-2 and winning the Central Division Championship by only 1 single point over the Barrie Colts. During the 2003 playoffs the Battalion started what would eventually become a rivalry with the Barrie Colts defeating the Colts in the first round in six games. On Monday, November 5, 2012 following a meeting with city counsel in North Bay, Ontario an agreement in principal to move the Battalion to North Bay for the 2013-14 season was agreed upon. Early in the season it was announced that the team would be relocating to North Bay, Ontario for the 2013-14 season. The Troops would lose game one in overtime on the road and from there they couldn’t recover as they would lose four straight. Brampton would take the first two games before Kingston would take the next two. However, the 2nd place Otters proved to be too strong and Erie took the series in 6 games. The Troops would complete the sweep with defenceman Cameron Wind’s goal in double overtime of game 4. The Battalion's uniform is primarily an army-like shade of olive green. Game 5 was much closer but the Colts still took the game 3-2 and the series in only five games and thus beginning the Battalion’s Curse of the Colts. After 3 straight years of being knocked out of the playoffs by the Colts the Battalion built up a roster to make a deep run in 2008/2009.
Just nine days later fans in North Bay had already bought 2,000 season tickets as per the conditions of the agreement. Powered by hat tricks from Matt MacLeod and Philip Lane the Troops took the first two games on home ice before a dominating 6-1 win in game three. The first win in club history would come on October 18 when the troops beat the visiting Sudbury Wolves 5-4. Brampton got off to a slow 2-6 start but with the return of Cody Hodgson and the addition of After the teams run to the OHL finals in 2008-09 the Battalion fell to mid pack in 2009-10. Erste Liga Despite posting a 33-24-11 record, Brampton would lose the race to the Mississauga Ice Dogs and finish 3rd in the central, and 4th in the conference, setting up a first round match up with the Sudbury Wolves.
During their time in Brampton the Battalion won four division titles and one conference title. The Battalion did not fare well during the 2003–04 regular season, as their record fell to 25-32-11. Romania