The Dundas Real McCoys are a Senior "AAA" ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team based out of Dundas, Ontario

Dundas, Ontario

Dundas is a formerly independent town and now constituent community in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. It's nickname is the Valley Town. The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley...

. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

's Major League Hockey

Major League Hockey

Allan Cup Hockey is the top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in the province of Ontario. As a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, the league contends for the famed Allan Cup. The league came to its latest incarnation when it lost several teams leaving it with two...

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History

The Real McCoys were once members of the Major Intermediate A Hockey League

Major Intermediate A Hockey League

The Major Intermediate A Hockey League was an ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. It existed from 1978 to 1983. Its champion was eligible to compete for the W.G. Hardy Trophy, emblematic of Canadian Intermediate A hockey supremacy.The Georgian Bay...

 as the Dundas Merchants.

In 1986, the Real McCoys were the last Ontario Hockey Association

Ontario Hockey Association

The Ontario Hockey Association is the governing body for the majority of Junior and Senior level ice hockey teams in the Province of Ontario. The OHA is sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Federation along with the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Other Ontario sanctioning bodies along with the...

 team to win the Hardy Cup

Hardy Cup

The W. G. Hardy Trophy, more commonly referred to as the Hardy Cup, was the Canadian national Intermediate "A" ice hockey championship from 1967 until 1984. From 1985 until 1990, the Hardy Cup was the Canadian national senior championship for Senior "AA" after senior and intermediate hockey were...

 as National Senior "AA"/Intermediate "A" Champions. Only two OHA teams ever won this award, the other was the Georgetown Raiders

Georgetown Raiders Sr. A

----The Georgetown Raiders were an ice hockey team from Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. They competed in the OHA Senior A and Intermediate A ranks in the 1970s and 1980s....

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The Real McCoys played one year independent after the OHA Sr. League folded in 1987. After faltering in the first round of the national playoffs in 1988, the McCoys called it quits.

In 2000, the Real McCoys were resurrected in Major League Hockey

Major League Hockey

Allan Cup Hockey is the top tier Canadian Senior ice hockey league in the province of Ontario. As a member of the Ontario Hockey Association and Hockey Canada, the league contends for the famed Allan Cup. The league came to its latest incarnation when it lost several teams leaving it with two...

 and have played there ever since.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1978-79	34	21	12	1
204	144	43	2nd NIAHL
1979-80	36	24	12	0
229	161	48	1st GBIAHL	Won League
1980-81	35	20	14	1
194	174	41	3rd OHA Sr. A
1981-82	34	13	21	0
201	205	26	5th OHA Sr. A
1982-83	37	16	20	1
186	214	33	3rd OHA Sr. A
1984-85	40	22	17	1
224	193	45	OHA Sr. A	Won League
1985-86	36	20	15	1
158	163	41	4th OHA Sr. A	Lost Final
1986-87	35	15	19	1
160	154	33	2nd OHA Sr. A	Lost Final
1987-00	Did Not Participate
2000-01	30	23	7	0	0
46	4th OHA Sr. A
2001-02	32	26	6	0	0	269	109	52	2nd OHA Sr. A	Won League
2002-03	32	19	9	2	2	167	118	42	2nd MLH	Won League
2003-04	32	2	29	0	1	99	204	5	6th MLH
2004-05	34	20	12	0	2	198	167	42	2nd MLH	Lost Final
2005-06	30	15	12	0	3	147	148	33	3rd MLH	Won League
2006-07	30	11	11
8	157	172	30	5th MLH	DNQ
2007-08	30	21	7
2	148	120	44	1st MLH	Won League
2008-09	28	19	7
2	161	120	40	1st MLH	Won League
2009-10	24	19	3
2	149	88	40	1st MLH	Won League
2010-11	24	11	9
4	122	119	26	3rd MLH	Won League

Notable alumni

• Ryan Christie
  Ryan Christie
  Ryan Christie is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Dallas Stars and the Calgary Flames. Drafted 112th overall by the Stars in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, Christie played seven games in the NHL scoring no points and no penalty minutes...
  
  
• Dan Currie
  Dan Currie (ice hockey)
  Dan Currie is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger. He played junior hockey for the Sault Ste...
  
  
• Bruce Dowie
  Bruce Dowie
  Bruce Dowie is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He played in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs.-External links:...
  
  
• Todd Harvey
  Todd Harvey
  Todd Douglas Ross Harvey is a former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the first round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 9th overall, by the Dallas Stars, following a successful junior career, which included being the captain of the Canadian team at the World Junior Hockey...
  
  
• Todd Hlushko
  Todd Hlushko
  Todd Hlushko is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins. Hlushko was a member of the Canadian 1994 Winter Olympics ice hockey team, winning a silver medal.-External links:...
  
  
• Mike Kennedy
  Mike Kennedy
  Michael Kennedy is a former professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League from 1994–95 to 1998–99 for the Dallas Stars, Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders....
  
  
• Bob LaForest
  Bob Laforest
  Robert LaForest is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Bill McDougall
  Bill McDougall
  William Henry McDougall is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is best known for his record setting scoring performance during the 1992–1993 AHL playoffs.-Career:...
  
  
• Mike Millar
  Mike Millar
  Michael Millar is a retired Canadian ice hockey right wingerMillar was selected 110th overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  
• Chris Pusey
  Chris Pusey
  Chris Pusey was an NHL one game goaltender. He is notable, for returning after retiring from professional ice hockey, with the Dundas Real McCoys, an OHA senior team, and the club made the final four in the Allan Cup tournament. Chris, however, was playing not as a goaltender, but as a defenceman...
  
  
• Nick Smith
  Nick Smith (ice hockey)
  Nick Smith was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League from Hamilton, Ontario. He played for the Florida Panthers during the 2001-02 season. He was selected by them during the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, in the 3rd round .-External links:...
  
  
• Rick Vaive
  Rick Vaive
  Richard Claude Vaive is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League from 1979 to 1992, and is best remembered as the first 50 goal scorer in Toronto Maple Leafs franchise history.-Bio:...
  
  
• Scott Walker
• Stan Weir
  Stan Weir
  Stanley Brian "Stash" Weir is a retired ice hockey centre. He played on five different teams for the National Hockey League over a 11 year career...
  
  

External links

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