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2016–17 CPJHL season
LeagueCanadian Premier Junior Hockey League
SportIce hockey
Duration48 games
Number of teams8
Season championsMuskoka Wild
Finals championsAlmonte Jr. Sharpshooters
Seasons
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The 2016–17 CPJHL season is the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League (CPJHL). The eight teams of the CPJHL play a 48-game schedule.

League formation

The CPJHL was announced in the spring of 2016. Originally, eleven teams were divided into two divisions[1] and scheduled to begin play in September. The league plans to feature a 48-game schedule concluding in March and include an all-star game, college showcase event, and a league playoff. The league gained sanctioning by the United Hockey Union (UHU), the junior hockey branch of the Amateur Athletic Union, in June 2016.

Before the league's first season would start, several of the announced teams had some further organizational changes:

  • Burk's Falls was initially introduced as the Warriors, but an ownership change saw the team renamed the Bruins.
  • The Almonte Jr. Sharpshooters were initially announced as the Ottawa Sharpshooters before making Almonte Community Center the home for the junior club. The Sharpshooters also included a U-18 team that compete in the National College Prospects Hockey League, another UHU league.
  • On September 16, the day the first games were set to take place, the league announced that the Akwesasne Chiefs and Coldwater Falcons would not play in the first season due to lack of players on each team.[2][3]

Both the Burk's Falls Bruins and Norwood Nemesis were granted delayed starts to their seasons due to a coaching change for the Bruins and lack of players for both teams.[4][5] However, after the second week of the season, the Bruins still had trouble with recruiting enough players to fill their roster and the CPJHL decided to suspend the team for the season.[6]

Standings

Final standings[7]
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; Pts = Points; Pct = Points Percentage; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched league title.

East Division
Team Centre W L T OTL GF GA Pts Pct
Almonte Jr. Sharpshooters Almonte, Ontario 34 8 1 2 206 94 71 0.789
Glengarry Highlanders Maxville, Ontario 23 19 1 5 192 177 52 0.542
O-Town Rebels Ottawa, Ontario 23 19 0 2 170 153 48 0.545
Norwood Nemesis Norwood, Ontario 7 37 2 1 89 247 17 0.181
West Division
Team Centre W L T OTL GF GA Pts Pct
Muskoka Wild Port Carling, Ontario 35 7 3 3 197 110 76 0.792
Essa Stallions Angus, Ontario 29 13 1 5 204 138 64 0.667
Grey Highlands Hawks Markdale, Ontario 29 18 1 0 216 149 59 0.615
Seaforth Generals Seaforth, Ontario 3 44 1 0 96 298 7 0.073

Playoffs

All teams qualify for the playoffs and seeded one through eight, with the highest seed facing the lowest remaining seed in the first round. The first round is a two-game series with a total goal aggregate. After the first round, the four remaining teams play a round robin with the top two teams meeting in a championship game.

First Round

(1) Muskoka Wild vs.
(8) Seaforth Generals
Team March 10 March 12 Total Goals
Wild 8 6 14
Generals 0 5 5
(2) Almonte Jr. Sharpshooters
vs. (7) Norwood Nemesis
Team March 11 March 12 Total Goals
Jr. Sharpshooters 3 9 12
Nemesis 1 1 2
(3) Essa Stallions vs.
(6) O-Town Rebels
Team March 8 March 11 Total Goals
Stallions 7 — 7
Rebels 3 Forfeit[8] 3
(4) Grey Highlands Hawks vs.
(5) Glengarry Highlanders
Team March 10 March 12 Total Goals
Hawks 9 4 13
Highlanders 3 6 9

Round Robin

Team W L OTL GF GA GD
Muskoka Wild 3 0 0 16 4 +12
Almonte Jr. Sharpshooters 2 1 0 9 9 0
Essa Stallions 1 1 1 9 12 -3
Grey Highlands Hawks 0 2 1 8 17 -9

President's Cup Championship game

Team Period Final
1st 2nd 3rd OT
Jr. Sharpshooters 2 1 0 1 4
Wild 0 0 3 0 3

References

  1. ^ "CPJHL Add Akwesasne Chiefs To East Division". Junior Hockey News. Junior Hockey News. 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ "League Update". CPJHL. 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. ^ "THE DEATH POOL – SPECIAL REPORT – CPJHL KILLS OFF TWO". The Junior Hockey News. 16 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Burk's Falls Bruins hire new coach, focused on icing a team". Almaguin-North Bay Nipissing News. 22 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Norwood Nemesis delay Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League debut to Sept. 26 over lack of players". Peterborough Examiner. 15 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Burk's Falls team hangs up skates before first game". Almaguin-North Bay Nipissing News. 28 September 2016.
  7. ^ "CPJHL Standings". CPJHL. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Twitter post by Essa Stallions: March 11, 2017". March 11, 2017.
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