2022 Hockey Northwestern Ontario Telus Cup Playoffs

This is the 2022 Hockey Northwestern Ontario Telus Cup Playoffs. The winner receives the Don Smith Cup and advances to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional being held at Tundra Oil & Gas Place in Virden, Manitoba April 28-May 1, 2022.
The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA joined the Greater Toronto Hockey League for the 2021-22 season. They also participated in the league playoffs for the 2021-22 season.
The Kenora AAA Thistles are members of the Manitoba AAA U18 Hockey League. But due to restrictions in place caused by a spike in cases of COVID-19 across Ontario they were forced to withdraw from the league for the balance of the 2021-22 season during the Christmas holiday break.
Despite each team already playing in a league, they are the only two teams playing at the U18 AAA level in the region sanctioned by Hockey Northwestern Ontario and with their leagues being in other sanctioning regions they are thus ineligible to compete in Telus Cup qualifying in their home leagues.
The event was changed to a best-of-three series, pushed back from mid-March to mid-April due to the 2022 Telus Cup being pushed back. The series was further delayed by a day due to a major snowstorm that hit the area April 13-15. All games are played at the Fort William First Nation Arena.
==Series==
Game 	Date 	Visitor 	Score 	Home
1 	April 16 	Kenora AAA Thistles 	1-7 	Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA
2 	April 17 	Kenora AAA Thistles 	1-9 	Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA
The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA win the series 2-games-to-none and advance to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional.	The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA win the series 2-games-to-none and advance to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional.	The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA win the series 2-games-to-none and advance to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional.	The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA win the series 2-games-to-none and advance to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional.	The Thunder Bay Kings Midget AAA win the series 2-games-to-none and advance to the 2022 Telus Cup West Regional.
==Links==
tournament website
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