The Gananoque Islanders were a Canadian junior team based out of Gananoque, Ontario.
They were members of the Junior C Provincial Junior Hockey League from 2016 to 2019. For the 2015–16 season they played in the Empire B Junior C Hockey League, but were members of the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League a Junior B hockey league from 1986 until 2015.
History The G-Men started out in the EOJHL in 1972. In 1977, they opted to move to the Ontario Hockey Association's Quinte-St. Lawrence Junior C Hockey League. In 1986, the league merged with the Central Junior C Hockey League and the G-Men returned to the EOJHL. They changed their name to the Platers that year and then the Islanders in 1993.
At the conclusion of the 2014-15 season, the league announced it was re-organizing to be more of a dedicated developmental league to the Central Canada Hockey League and renamed the league Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2. Initially, the league was to downsize to twelve teams (one feeder club for each Tier 1 team), however it reduced to six teams, removing six of the current franchises, including the Akwesasne Wolves, Morrisburg Lions, Almonte Thunder, Gananoque Islanders, Gatineau Mustangs and Shawville Pontiacs.
The Gananoque Islanders announced that they would continue their franchise in the Empire B Junior C Hockey League beginning in 2015-16. For the 2016/17 season the Empire B league combined with seven other Southern Ontario leagues to become the Provincial Junior Hockey League. The members of the Empire league became the Tod Division in the East Conference of the PJHL.
The team folded from the PJHL in 2021.
In 2021 new senior Gananoque team became part of the EOSHL. In August 2025, they folded.
Notable alumni Andy Sutton - Current Edmonton Oilers defenceman. Erik Cole - Current Dallas Stars - Hunter Drew - Current San Diego Gulls (AHL) Defenceman Randy Payne - Dedicated Soldier killed in Afghanistan April 22, 2006
Season-by-season results Season GP W L T OTL GF GA P Results Playoffs1977-78 32 16 14 2 - 176 128 34 2nd QSLJHL1978-79 Quinte-St. Lawrence Jr. C Standings Not Available1979-80 32 22 10 0 - 234 167 44 1st QSLJHL1980-81 34 13 13 8 - -- -- 34 4th QSLJHL1981-82 34 4 23 7 - -- -- 15 6th QSLJHL1982-83 34 17 15 2 - 174 145 36 4th QSLJHL1983-84 Quinte-St. Lawrence Jr. C Standings Not Available1984-85 30 23 6 1 - 219 125 47 1st QSLJHL1985-86 Quinte-St. Lawrence Jr. C Standings Not Available1986-99 Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League Standings Not Available1999-00 42 26 15 1 - 204 149 53 2nd EO Rideau Lost Division Final2000-01 44 22 21 1 - 194 187 45 3rd EO Rideau Lost semi-final2001-02 44 16 25 3 - 167 194 36 3rd EO Rideau Lost Division Final2002-03 44 28 13 3 0 251 205 59 2nd EO Rideau Lost Division S-final2003-04 44 26 13 3 2 207 166 57 2nd EO Rideau Lost Division S-final2004-05 44 22 19 2 1 224 203 47 3rd EO Rideau Lost Division Final2005-06 42 14 23 2 3 206 217 33 4th EO Rideau Lost Division S-final2006-07 44 24 16 2 2 205 171 52 3rd EO Rideau Lost Division S-final2007-08 42 21 17 3 1 171 166 46 3rd EO Rideau Lost Division S-final2008-09 42 17 20 3 2 169 185 39 4th EO RideauLost semi-final2009-10 44 14 23 3 4 166 204 35 4th EO Rideau Lost Division S-Final2010-11 46 15 30 0 1 167 254 31 4th EO Rideau Lost Division S-Final2011-12 46 27 17 0 2 210 183 56 3rd EO Rideau 2012-13 46 29 14 0 3 213 162 61 2nd EO Rideau Season GP W L OTL SOL GF GA P Results Playoffs2013-14 45 28 14 1 2 168 137 59 1st EO Rideau Lost semi-final2014-15 44 17 24 1 2 121 175 37 5th EO Rideau DNQEmpire B Junior 'C' Hockey League2015-16 40 11 24 5 - 158 193 27 4th of 6 EBJCHL Lost semi finals 0-4 (Panthers)Provincial Junior Hockey League2016-17 40 21 18 1 - 160 144 43 3rd of 6Tod Div-PJHL Lost div semi-finals, 1-4 (Raiders)2017-18 38 8 28 2 - 101 246 18 5th of 6Tod Div-PJHL Did not qualify2018-19 43 13 27 2 1 150 164 29 5th of 6Tod Div-PJHL Did not qualifyEastern Ontario Super Hockey League2021 - 20221897029479204th of 6 West Div - EOSHLPlayoffs Lost finals 3-2 Games (North Dundas Rockets)
References
External links
Empire B Jr. C website