Countries | Canada |
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Region(s) | Eastern Ontario |
Commissioner | Marc Franche |
Former name(s) | list
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Founded | 1966 |
No. of teams | 13 |
Championship | Barkley Cup |
Recent Champions | Perth Blue Wings (4th) (2023) |
Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Website | EOJHL |
The Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League is a Junior ice hockey league operating in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Canada and acts as a second tier to the Central Canada Hockey League. The 13 member teams of the league compete for the Barkley Cup. Dating back to the 1960s, the league was known until 2015 as the Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League. The League was known from 2015 to 2020 as the Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2.
The EOJHL was founded in 1966 as the Rideau-St. Lawrence Junior "B" Hockey League. Through a merger with the Upper Ottawa Valley Junior "B" Hockey League and the folding of the Lanark-Renfrew Junior "C" Hockey League, the league had grown to 22 different teams.
For the 2007-08 season, the Kemptville 73's moved from the EOJBHL to the Central Junior A Hockey League. A season later, the EOJBHL sold their franchise rights to the then-owners of the Casselman Stars of the Eastern Ontario Junior C Hockey League and then town of Casselman, Ontario. The new team, the Casselman Vikings, began play in the 2008-09 season.
In May 2009, the league dropped the Junior "B" designation from its name, becoming the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League (EOJHL).
For the 2009-10 season, the Carleton Place Kings moved from the EOJHL to the Central Canada Hockey League. The Kings were replaced the same year by the new Almonte Thunder.
In April 2014, the EOJHL Champion Casselman Vikings traveled to Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia to compete in the Eastern Canadian Junior B Championship. Cassleman became the first team west of Atlantic Canada to compete in the Don Johnson Memorial Cup tournament since its inception in 1982. Casselman went 6-0-0 and won the championship.
At the beginning of the 2015-16 season, the league changed its name to the CCHL2 and cut down to 16 teams from 22 teams which saw the removal of the Shawville Pontiacs, Akwesasne Wolves, Gananoque Islanders, Almonte Thunder, Morrisburg Lions, and Gatineau Mustangs.
The CCHL2 consists of two divisions, the Martin Division and Richardson Division. The league offers a 52-game balanced schedule where everyone plays everyone at least once. The two Divisional Playoff champions battle for the Barkley Cup every April.
In March 2017, the Pembroke Lumber Kings (CCHL) announced the purchase of the Prescott Flyers as their CCHL2 affiliate and relocating the team to Cobden and calling them the Whitewater Kings. Also in March, the Carleton Place Canadians (CCHL) announced the purchase of the Clarence Beavers and relocated them to Carleton Place, naming them the Carleton Place Junior Canadians. The Rockland Nationals of the National Capital Junior Hockey League will relocate to Clarence to fill in for the departed Beavers. The Metcalfe Jets will move to the National Capital Junior Hockey League and in return the Embrun Panthers will move up to the CCHL2.
During the 2023 off-season the Whitewater Kings and Brockville Tikis requested a leave of absence. Neither team appears to intend to return. the 2024 off-season had the Alexandria Glens and Char-Lan Rebels merge and re-brand as the Glengarry Brigade.
Martin Division | |||||||
Team | Centre | Founded | CCHL Affiliate | ||||
Casselman Vikings | Casselman | 2008 | |||||
Embrun Panthers | Embrun | 1972 | |||||
Glengarry Brigade | Alexandria | 2024 | |||||
Ottawa Canadians | Ottawa | 1973 | Ottawa Jr. Senators | ||||
Ottawa West Golden Knights | Ottawa | 1983 | Nepean Raiders | ||||
Winchester Hawks | Winchester | 1971 | Nepean Raiders | ||||
Richardson Division | |||||||
Team | Centre | Founded | CCHL Affiliate | ||||
Arnprior Packers | Arnprior | 1965 | |||||
Athens Aeros | Athens | 1968 | |||||
Carleton Place Jr. Canadians | Carleton Place | 1980 | Carleton Place Canadians | ||||
Perth Blue Wings | Perth | 1936 | |||||
Richmond Royals | Ottawa | 1968 | |||||
Smith Falls Jr. Bears | Smith Falls | 1967 | Smiths Falls Bears | ||||
Valley Timberwolves | Renfrew | 1987 |
There is no National Championship for Junior B hockey in Canada, similar championships are held in Ontario (Sutherland Cup), Western Canada (Keystone Cup), Quebec (Coupe Dodge), and Atlantic Canada (Don Johnson Memorial Cup).
Up until the end of the 2015 playoffs, each team listed is a division champion, both the league champion and finalists are either "Metro/Valley" or "Rideau/St. Lawrence" Conference champions. Bolded are league champions, Italicized are finalists.
The EOJHL became the CCHL2 for the 2015-16 season reducing to just two divisions.
Wild Card Series | Quarter Finals | Semi Finals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||
M3 | Embrun | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
M6 | Winchester | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
M1 | Richmond | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
M5 | Ottawa | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
M1 | Richmond | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
M3 | Casselman | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
M4 | Ottawa West | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
M5 | Ottawa | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
M2 | Casselman | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
M3 | Embrun | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
M1 | Perth | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
R1 | Casselman | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
R4 | Athens | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
R5 | Brockville | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
R1 | Perth | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
R4 | Athens | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
R1 | Perth | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
R2 | Arnprior | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
R3 | Smiths Falls | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
R6 | Carleton Place | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
R2 | Arnprior | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
R3 | Smiths Falls | 1 |
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The Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) is a Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey league operating in eastern Ontario, Canada. The league is sanctioned by Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Canada and is a member of the Canadian Junior Hockey League. The winner of the CCHL playoffs competes for the Fred Page Cup — the Eastern Region championship of the Canadian Junior Hockey League — with the winners of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League and the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. The winner of the Fred Page Cup then moves on to compete for the national Centennial Cup.
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The National Capital Junior Hockey League (NCJHL) is a Canadian Junior ice hockey league in Ontario, sanctioned by the Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Canada. The league is meant to be an interprovincial league between Ontario and Quebec.
The Casselman Vikings are a Canadian Junior ice hockey team in Casselman, Ontario. The Vikings play in the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League (EOJHL). Between 2014-15 and the end of the 2019-2020 seasons, the EOJHL and the CCHL set a new agreement in an attempt to create a better player development model. This resulted in the league re-branding itself as the Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2 (CCHL2), and shrinking to 16 teams and two divisions. The league reverted to the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League for 2021. Prior to 2015, their league was known as the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League of the Ottawa District Hockey Association. The Vikings have won the Carson Trophy three times and were the 2014 Don Johnson Memorial Cup Eastern Canadian Jr. B Champions.
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The 2013–14 EOJHL season is the 47th season of the Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League (EOJHL). The twenty two teams of the EOJHL will play between 40 and 45-game schedules.