The 2000–01 season was the first season in club history that the team would score a record above the .500 mark with a final tally of 33–22–13 for a 3rd-place finish in the Midwest Division and 5th in the Western Conference. On April 22, the Beast announced that Brampton native and former In June 2013, the Beast announced its first player signed was The 2013–14 schedule was released on July 26, 2013 and featured the Beast playing the first CHL game on Canadian soil against the For the team's second season in 2014, head coach Mark DeSantis was replaced by his assistant Brent Hughes as the team's new head coach and Cal Wild was named the team's second captain.
However the Troops would fall four straight in the first round of the playoffs to the Niagara Ice Dogs. Hockey Canada honours Arnsby . On Monday, November 5, 2012, following a meeting with city counsel in North Bay, Ontario an agreement in principle to move the Battalion to North Bay for the 2013–14 season was agreed upon. Cody Hodgson missed most of the season with a back injury.
He returned to play 13 games near the end of the regular season but would miss the final 5 games with a foot injury before returning for the playoffs. Minority owner, Cary Kaplan, woul… The Battalion's uniform is primarily an army-like shade of olive green.
Most of the offense from the previous season was gone as Sean Jones led the team in scoring with 32 goals and 49 points.
Brampton would win game one on home ice by a 4–1 score. The team lost in the Division Finals to the Manchester Monarchs. Evenly between the shoulder and elbow lie three The logo itself, featuring their mascot, Sarge, gritting his teeth is also army olive green, a mix of yellow and beige, white, flesh-coloured pinky-orange, black, and red. The Battalion would play out of the North Bay Memorial Gardens which underwent renovations, in order to meet OHL regulations. Franchise owner Scott Abbott indicated that the team would keep the Battalion moniker in North Bay, paying homage to the strong military history the city has. During the 2002 off season the North Bay Centennials were bought and moved to Saginaw, Michigan to become the Spirit and thus leaving the East and West unbalanced so the Battalion were moved to the Eastern Conference and given North Bay's former spot in the Central Division.
History. The Colts would sweep the Battalion in four straight as the Troops fell to Barrie in the playoffs for the fourth time in five years. The Battalion made their debut in 1998-99 and will complete a 15-year lease agreement at Brampton's Powerade Centre at the end of the season. 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.
The Troops played at a slightly above .500 level for most of the season.
The game went to double overtime with the Wolves scoring a power play goal to end Brampton's season. Ontario Hockey League Logos • Brampton Battalion (1998/99-2012/13) North Bay Battalion (2013/14-Pres) Brampton Battalion Primary Logos 1998/99 - 2012/13 After the Troops took game 1 the Otters would win four in a row and win the series in five games. With 14 games remaining on the schedule the Battalion would have to win every single game to even have a shot at the division championship, so that is exactly what they did. Before the series started everybody expected it to be a long and great series. The Battalion relocated to North Bay, Ontario, in the 2013 off-season after several years of low attendance and financial struggles. From 1998 to 2013, Brampton was home to the Ontario Hockey League's Brampton Battalion, a major junior hockey team. The Brampton Battalion was granted an expansion franchise on December 3, 1996. For the second straight year, in round 2, the Battalion would have to face the Eastern Conference Champions, the Toronto St. Michael's Majors. With much more steady goaltending the Battalion managed a near .500 record for the rest of the season finishing with 29 wins and 65 points to finish 6th in the Eastern Conference.
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. The 2005–06 season would become the best season in club history; however, the season did not start off that way. The Troops were eliminated in a 1–0 overtime loss on home ice in game 5 on March 29, 2013. Early in the season it was announced that the team would be relocating to North Bay, Ontario for the 2013–14 season. David Pacan led the ECHL in goals with 41 while David Vallorani was fifth in the league in scoring with 83 points and named an ECHL second team all-star. Significant among them former NHLer and prolific Battalion defenceman After being the only player to appear in all three Beast seasons, as well as being named captain in each season and two-time Brampton Beast's Man of the Year, Cal Wild announced his retirement on November 22, 2015. The name was submitted by four fans7 - Fans (In honour of the fans of Brampton - being the "7th Man"). Battalion captain Stephon Thorne would score two of just three goals scored by the Battalion in the four game series. The Brampton Beast are a professional ice hockey team based in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.An affiliate of the National Hockey League's Ottawa Senators and the American Hockey League's Belleville Senators, the team originally played in the Central Hockey League for one year during the 2013–14 season prior to the league's folding. An attendance that was never healthy on a regular basis to begin with was declining in Brampton. Key signings included former On October 7, 2014, not long before the 2014–15 season was set to begin, it was announced that the Central Hockey League had ceased operations. Listen LIVE Decline Accept The series with the Wolves was an intense one. Bob Savage was their coach for both seasons. This is the perfect way to show your team pride this off-season. After a somewhat mediocre start the club by mid February had climbed to a record of 30–21–1–2. During the summer of 2012 rumours of the Battalion franchise relocating began to swirl as their lease agreement with the Powerade Centre was nearing an end. The Wolves took the first two games, including one in overtime. The season was the most successful of its first four with the team's winning percentage increasing from 0.396 to 0.611. OA Forward Scott Tanski led the team with 47 points in the regular season.