The Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championship are the Junior "C" ice hockey championships for the Maritime Junior "C" leagues and Hockey North's Team Nunavut of the Canadian Territory of Nunavut.

History

The championship was officially adopted by Hockey Canada during a summer meeting in 2002.

The first ever Maritime-North Championship was won by the Chebucto Canadians of Nova Scotia in the Spring of 2003. Chebucto defeated the Dieppe/Memramcook Voyageurs of the New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League 4–3 in triple overtime to win the title.

On April 14, 2012, the tenth anniversary of the tournament, Nunavut's Kivalliq Canucks defeated Prince Edward Island's Pownal Red Wings 3–1 to become the first Hockey North-based team in the tournament's history to make the final.[1] Kivalliq would eventually lose the final 7–3 to Nova Scotia's Chester Clippers.

The 2015 tournament in Sherwood, Prince Edward Island marked the first time in tournament history that neither team in the final represented New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. Baffin made the final by upsetting New Brunswick's Western Valley Panthers while PEI's South Side Lynx beat Nova Scotia's Truro Rhinos to reach the championship game. This would mark only the second time a Hockey North team made the final and the first time ever a PEI team had made it. Baffin led 6-1 early in the second, only to have South Side battle back to within one goal. Baffin won the game 6–5 to win Nunavut's first Maritime-Hockey North junior hockey title.[2]

2023 competition

2023 Tournament
Rank Team League W-L-OTL GF GA
1 Tri-County River Cats NBJHL 2-0-0 13 3
2 South West Storm NSJCHL 2-0-0 13 2
3 Sherwood Metros Jr C Host 1-2-0 3 13
4 Tignish Aces PEIJCHL 0-3-0 6 13
(out of tournament after game 2)

Results

April 26

South West Storm - 7 vs. Tignish Aces - 4
Tri-County River Cats - 7 vs. Sherwood Metros - 1

April 27

Tri-County River Cats - 6 vs. Tignish Aces - 2
South West Storm - 6 vs. Sherwood Metros - 2

April 28

Tri-County River Cats - 4 vs. South West Storm - 3
Sherwood Metros - Win vs. Tignish Aces - Forfeit

April 29 - Semi Final

South West Storm - 6 vs. Sherwood Metros - 3

April 30 - Final

OT Final: South West Storm - 3 vs. Tri-County River Cats 2

Competing leagues

Champions

Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Champions
Year Champions Runners-Up Host City
2003 Chebucto Canadians Dieppe/Memramcook Voyageurs Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
2004 Fredericton Rangers Barrington Ice Dogs Fredericton, New Brunswick
2005 Barrington Ice Dogs Kent-Sud Flames Tignish, Prince Edward Island
2006 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators Barrington Ice Dogs Lantz, Nova Scotia
2007 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators Dieppe/Memramcook Voyageurs Shediac, New Brunswick
2008 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators Harbour Crunch Cornwall, Prince Edward Island
2009 Barrington Ice Dogs Clare Lions Barrington, Nova Scotia
2010 Eastern Shore Jr. Mariners Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators Fredericton, New Brunswick
2011 Clare Lions Eastern Shore Jr. Mariners Church Point, Nova Scotia
2012 Chester Clippers Kivalliq Canucks Tignish, Prince Edward Island
2013 Hampton Hurricanes Western Valley Panthers Hampton, New Brunswick
2014 Spryfield Silver & Black Attack Hampton Hurricanes Liverpool, Nova Scotia
2015 Baffin Blizzard South Side Lynx Sherwood, Prince Edward Island
2016 Western Valley Panthers Spryfield Silver & Black Attack Fredericton Junction, New Brunswick
2017 Southern Sting Metro Jaguars Springhill, Nova Scotia
2018 Sherwood Metros South Side Lynx Crapaud, Prince Edward Island
2019 Tri-County Rivercats Western Valley Panthers Woodstock, New Brunswick
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic Hartland, New Brunswick
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Western Valley Panthers South West Storm East Hants, Nova Scotia
2023 South West Storm Tri-County Rivercats Sherwood, Prince Edward Island

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2012-04-16.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Baffin Blizzard return home victorious". Nunatsiaq News. March 31, 2015.

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