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Sting Celebrating 25 Years in Sarnia

November 9, 2018 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Sarnia Sting News Release


Steven Stamkos, Jakob Chychrun, Nail Yakupov, Alex Galchenyuk, Travis Konecny and the list goes on.

The Sarnia Sting have developed top tier NHL talent over the course of their 25-year history. Now a pair of long-time NHL competitors have banded together in an effort to bring the franchise its first championship.

Derian Hatcher and David Legwand purchased the Sting from long-time owners Rob and Larry Ciccarelli in January 2015 and made some additions to the franchise record books over the three seasons that followed. The Sting set a new franchise record with 42 wins in 2015-16 before besting that mark two years later, winning 46 games in 2017-18.

Hatcher took the reins as head coach while Legwand finished up a 16-year NHL playing career before joining him on the bench as an associate.

"We are trying to build something and it doesn't come overnight," said Hatcher, a Stanley Cup champion with the Dallas Stars in 1999. "Last year we had a pretty good team in place and we fell short, but one of our goals is to be competitive every year so there really is no such thing as a rebuild.

"We want to put a capable team on the ice each season."

A city of approximately 72,000 on the shores of Lake Huron, Sarnia has been the home of the Sting since 1994 when the Newmarket Royals moved west. They've been playing at Progressive Auto Sales arena since the start of the 1998-99 season.

Having played in a small market OHL city himself as a member of the North Bay Centennials from 1989-91, Hatcher knows first-hand the importance of players being a positive influence in the community.

"The parents are giving us their boys at a pretty young age and expecting a lot from us and we take that very seriously," he said. "All of our guys are attending school whether that's post secondary or high school and they're involved in our community through school visits and other initiatives.

"We're developing young men here and our guys know that we maintain a high standard when it comes to representing the Sting organization on and off the ice."

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