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Windsor Spitfires Hockey Club Ontario Hockey League CHL Network Subway Super Series Home Hardware Top Prospects MasterCard Memorial Cup CHL Teams Barrie Colts Belleville Bulls Brampton Battalion Erie Otters Guelph Storm Kingston Frontenacs Kitchener Rangers London Knights Mississauga St Michaels Majors Niagara IceDogs Oshawa Generals Ottawa 67s Owen Sound Attack Peterborough Petes Plymouth Whalers Saginaw Spirit Sarnia Sting Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds Sudbury Wolves Windsor Spitfires 20092010 Roster Coaching Staff Front Office Memorial Cup 2009 Spitfire of the Month Our History Draftees Alumni Players Alumni Coaches Single Game Tickets Season Tickets Multigame Ticket Packages Platinum Seats & Suites Group Sales WFCU Centre Info WFCU Centre FAQ Seating Chart 20092010 Schedule Full OHL Schedule WFCU Centre Events Download Schedule Standings Scoring Goaltending CHL Rankings OHL Game Day News Releases ENewsletter Season Ticket Holders Spits Trivia Spitfires on Facebook Spitfires on Twitter Dream Season 2009 Playoffs 2009 Memorial Cup Downloads Wallpapers Spitfires Toolbar Spitfires Schedule Booster Club Games Spitfires Foundation Corporate Partners Education Program Windsor Spitfires Hockey Camp SpitsGear Online Store Contact Info Locate Us Parking Advertising Opportunities Feedback A History of the Windsor Spitfires The Windsor Spitfires are among the oldest teams operating in the Ontario Hockey League The team has been thrilling hockey fans in Windsor and Essex County with its exciting brand of Junior hockey for over 35 years The original Windsor Spitfires played in the Ontario Hockey Association from 19451953 After a 17 year hiatus from junior hockey the modernday Spitfires began operations in 1971 playing four years in the Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League In 1975 the team was granted entry as an expansion franchise in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League (OMJHL) which later became known as the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Peter Karmanos (founder and CEO of Compuware) bought the team in 1984 and renamed it the Windsor Compuware Spitfires The Compuware Spitfires played in the 1988 Memorial Cup in Chicoutimi Quebec losing the championship game to the Medicine Hat Tigers When Karmanos sold the team to Steve Riolo after the 198889 season the team reverted back to the Windsor Spitfires name and adopted a new logo and new colours In their modernday history as a junior hockey team the Windsor Spitfires have had five different logos and a variety of colours and uniforms The logo of the original OMJHL Spitfires in 1975 team was a red and blue circle surrounding a white maple leaf with the scripted word Spitfires across the crest Team colours were red white and blue When known as the Compuware Spitfires the team wore brown and...