Presenting the Woodstock Lakers

The Lakers organization have announced they will be relocating to Woodstock, Ontario for the 2023-24 season, playing out of the Southwood Arena at the Reeves Community Complex. The team will be referred to as the Woodstock Lakers.

Woodstock will become the largest city in the WOSHL by population, and the Lakers will be the 2nd team in Oxford County, joining the Tillsonburg Thunder. Woodstock is currently home to the Navy Vets junior hockey team, the Nationals senior baseball team, the Tier 3 soccer club Woodstock FC and the Kings cricket team as elite teams in the city, as well as a large base of youth sports players.

They will be the first hockey team above the junior level to call Woodstock home since the Oxford Blues folded in 1999.