2019-20 East Coast Senior Hockey League season

This is the 2019-20 Newfoundland Senior Hockey League season. This is the league's second season.
The league is actually made up of two seperate leagues that have been playing an interlocking schedule in an attempt to save several of the teams in the province.
==Season in Jeopardy==
The league was put in a holding pattern to get season activities underway as Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador is refusing to sanction the league as a five team league as the league members have refused to allow the Conception Bay North CeeBee Stars into the league after withdrawing from the Avalon East Senior Hockey League to for the East Coast Senior Hockey League. The main issue revolves around accusations of the Stars paying players over the years and that they owe monies to the league and insistence that it be paid prior to them beginning play.http://www.nlhockeytalk.ca/2019/10/18/ecshl-playing-a-waiting-game/ The league has appealed the decision to Hockey Canada. A decision was expected to be announced early in the week of October 21, 2019. The action has forced the league to hold off on its player draft. Some indications show that if the Stars are allowed into the league some other members may withdraw and not play this year. Hockey Canada announced its decision will not be made until at least October 25. http://www.nlhockeytalk.ca/2019/10/19/2019-20-ecshl-season-delayed/
The Central/West Senior Hockey League would end up cancelling their season around November 20th when the Clarenville Caribous were accepted into the East Coast Senior Hockey League and that would leave two teams in the Central/West League and the teams in the East Coast League would not agree to play cross over games, This also lead to the Herder Memorial Trophy being announced as not being awarded for the 2019-20 season, which will be the first time since the 1990-91 season.https://www.nlhockeytalk.ca/2019/11/20/no-herder-no-cwshl/
==Teams==
 	
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Team 	Centre 	Arena
Clarenville Caribous 	Clarenville 	Eastlink Events Centre
Conception Bay Blues 	Conception Bay South 	Conception Bay South Arena& Monsignor Bartlett Memorial Arena
Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars	Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador	Danny Cleary Community Centre
Northeast Eagles 	Torbay 	Jack Byrne Arena
St. John's Capitals 	St. John's 	Goulds Sports Arena
Southern Shore Breakers 	Witless Bay 	Southern Shore Arena
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	GF	GA	Pts
Southern Shore Breakers 	15	14	0 	1 	90	33	29
St. John's Capitals 	15	11	4 	0 	75	52	22
Clarenville Caribous 	15	10	5 	0 	78	53	20
Northeast Eagles 	15	4 	9 	2 	44	84	10
Conception Bay Blues 	15	4 	10	1 	62	76	9
Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars	15	2 	13	0 	41	92	4
==Playoffs==
===Format===
All teams qualify.  The third seed plays the sixth seed and the fourth seed plays the fifth seed in best-of-five series with the winners advancing to the semifinals.
===Quarterfinals===
*Clarenville Caribous defeated Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars 3 games to none
*Conception Bay Blues defeated Northeast Eagles 3 games to 1
===Semifinals===
*Southern Shore Breakers defeated Conception Bay Blues 3 games to none
*St. John's Capitals lead Clarenville Caribous 1 game to none
Playoffs suspended on March 12th due to COVID-19 pandemic
==References==
Category:2020 in hockey
Category:East Coast Senior Hockey League seasons