Keystone Junior Hockey League

The Keystone Junior Hockey League (KJHL) is a Junior B hockey league operating in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The league plays under the sanction of Hockey Manitoba, in affiliation with Hockey Canada. The league champion is awarded the Baldy Northcott Trophy and represents Manitoba at the Western Canada Junior B Championship for the Keystone Cup.
The league started in the seventies as the Manitoba Junior B Hockey League, changing to the current name in 2004.
Until the 2017-18 season, the KJHL consisted of 10 teams, with each playing 34 games during the regular season. All teams make the playoffs. Teams finishing 4th and 5th in each division, playoff in a best-of-three survivor series to determine playoff seeding. Winners then move on to the regular playoff format, which are an elimination tournament consisting of 3 rounds. Best-of-five division semifinals, best-of-seven division final, and league championship, with the winner becoming the KJHL, Manitoba, and Baldy Northcott Trophy champions.
==Break-up and formation of CRJHL==
After the 2017-18 season, the five southern teams in the league withdrew to form the Capital Region Junior Hockey League citing travel distance in light of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash a few months earlier and the expense of travel to the remote northern teams, which was refuted by the remaining members who stated they had been subsidizing travel for the southern teams.
Due to the animosity over the break-up of the league there was no Baldy Northcott Trophy competition for the 2018-19 season and the KJHL had two of its teams compete in the 2019 Keystone Cup, which had already been reformatted when teams from BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan opted out of the tournament, against two members of the Lakehead Junior Hockey League. The CRJHL did not send any representatives to the event either.
==Rebuilding Membership==
The league would add the Nelson House, Manitoba-based NCN Flames for the 2019-20 season. The Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation youth hockey programme had grown to the point where they felt it was time to add a junior B team to its' offerings.http://www.keystonejr.ca/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientid=4338&leagueid=18880&page=107153 The team was hoped to have been originally starting with the 2018-19 season but it did not happen and the team was accepted for the 2019-20 season.
The Fisher River Hawks are hoped to be returning to the league for the 2019-20 season after sitting out the 2018-19 season, a decision should be announced by July 1st, 2019.
=Teams=
Team 	Center 	Arena
Cross Lake Islanders 	Cross Lake 	Cross Lake Sports Complex
NCN Flames 	Nelson House 	Gilbert McDonald Arena
Norway House North Stars 	Norway House, Manitoba 	Kinosao Sipi Multiplex
OCN Storm 	Opaskwayak Cree Nation 	Gordon Lathlin Memorial Centre
Peguis Juniors 	Peguis 	Peguis Multiplex
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Selects (on hiatus)	Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation	Creighton Sportex
Waywayseecappo Wild (on hiatus) 	Waywayseecappo, Manitoba 	Waywayseecappo Arena Complex
=Champions=
Keystone Junior Hockey League
Baldy Northcott Trophy: Manitoba Provincial Champion
2005	Selkirk Fishermen 	2006	North Winnipeg Satelites	2007	Winnipeg Saints
2008	Norway House North Stars	2009	St. Malo Warriors 	2010	Selkirk Fishermen
2011	Arborg Ice Dawgs 	2012	Arborg Ice Dawgs 	2013	Peguis Juniors
2014	Selkirk Fishermen 	2015	Selkirk Fishermen 	2016	Peguis Juniors
2017	Peguis Juniors 	2018	Peguis Juniors 	2019	Peguis Juniors
2020	Playoffs Cancelled 	2021	Season Cancelled 	2022	Peguis Juniors
2023	Peguis Juniors 	2024	Peguis Juniors 	2025	TBD
Manitoba Junior B Hockey League
Carillon Cup: Champion advanced to Provncial Playoffs for the Baldy Northcott Trophy.
1975	Steinbach Millers 	1976	Portage Terriers 	1977	Gimli Wolves
1978	Transcona Railers 	1979	Transcona Railers 	1980	Transcona Railers
1981	Transcona Railers 	1982	Transcona Railers 	1983	North Winnipeg Satelites
1984	Selkirk Fishermen 	1985	North Winnipeg Satelites	1986	North Winnipeg Satelites
1987	Oak Bluff Raiders 	1988	North Winnipeg Satelites	1989	North Winnipeg Satelites
1990	Beausejour Comets 	1991	Selkirk Fishermen 	1992	Selkirk Fishermen
1993	Selkirk Fishermen 	1994	Selkirk Fishermen 	1995	St. Malo Warriors
1996	Peguis Juniors 	1997	St. Malo Warriors 	1998	Peguis Juniors
1999	Selkirk Fishermen 	2000	St. Malo Warriors 	2001	St. Malo Warriors
2002	North Winnipeg Satelites	2003	North Winnipeg Satelites	2004	Selkirk Fishermen
=Timeline of Teams=
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==See Also==
*List of KJHL Seasons
==References==
Category:Ice hockey leagues
Category:Keystone Junior Hockey League