2021-22 IJHL season

This is the 2021-22 Island Junior Hockey League season This is the league's 25th season.
For the past few seasons the league is played a limited cross over schedule with the Junior B teams in the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League. The teams play a home and a road game against each team during the course of the season. These games count in the standings for both leagues. On February 23rd due to numerous cancellations the league would remove all games played against the NBJHL teams. However, all player stats from those games will be retained.https://ijhl.ca/news/3489/League-Standings-Reset/
==Racist Incident==
A December 17th game between the Kensington Vipers and Sherwood Metros makes national news when a player on the Vipers allegedly made an anti-Asian comment to an Asian ancestry player on the Metros. In the aftermath of the incident a player of the Metros (Keegan Mitchell) confronted the player that made the comment and ended up slashing the player earning a two game suspension. A hearing was held and the offending player was then suspended two games for the comment. Keegan posted on social media that the suspension length was inappropriate for the offence and he felt should have been much longer. As a result of the comments Keegan was suspended indefinitely by Hockey PEI for "violating the league’s social media policy by publicly criticizing officials and Hockey P.E.I. and making reference to a player on the rival Kensington Vipers."https://www.sportsnet.ca/article/p-e-hockey-player-suspended-criticizing-leagues-response-racist-incident/https://www.facebook.com/keeganm1/posts/10221633972105127 Keegan then issued a post stating that he did the right thing in standing up for his teammate. Later in the month the American Hockey League issued a 30 game suspension for a racial gesturehttps://theahl.com/hrabik-suspended-220121.
==Membership changes==
*The Eastern Maniacs are not playing this year.https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/sports/ijhl-down-to-three-teams-after-eastern-maniacs-decide-to-not-operate-for-the-2021-22-season-100645239/?fbclid=IwAR2Y2lDMJMzmi3xRHRzvcDiCqeTyuFGXGGc5hPAlCz_ao8trFJ-2-dOfekU
==The Teams==
Team 	Centre 	Arena
Kensington Vipers	Kensington 	Kensington Credit Union Centre
Sherwood Metros 	Sherwood 	Cody Banks Arena
Western Red Wings	Tyne Valley	Tyne Valley Community Sports Centre
==Standings==
Usually, the league plays inter-league games against the Junior teams from the members of the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League. Due to an unequal number of games played against each and the unlikelihood of making them all up those games were removed from the league standings on February 23rd. However, all player stats will remain.https://ijhl.ca/news/3489/League-Standings-Reset/
Team 	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
Sherwood Metros 	14	8	3	3 	62	46	19
Western Red Wings	15	8	7	0 	64	68	16
Kensington Vipers	15	6	8	1 	57	69	13
==Playoffs==
===Format===
All teams make the playoffs. The semifinal and final series are best-of-seven. The playoff champion advances to the 2022 Don Johnson Memorial Cup.
===Semifinals===
*Western Red Wings defeated Kensington Vipers 4 games to 2
===Final===
*Sherwood Metros defeated Western Red Wings 4 games to none
The Sherwood Metros advance to the 2022 Don Johnson Memorial Cup.
==References==
Category:2022 in hockey
Category:IJHL Seasons