2015-16 MJAHL Season

This is the 2015-16 Maritime Junior A Hockey League season.  This is the league's 49th season dating back to the previous names of Maritime Hockey League and prior to that Metro Valley Junior Hockey League dating back to the 1967-68 season. The league has gone back and forth over the last few seasons with the MJAHL and MHL monikers.
The league renamed its divisions to the from the Eastlink and Roger Meek to the Eastlink North and Eastlink South divisions respectively.
The league featured the same 12 teams playing 48 games each with the regular season starting on September 10, 2015 and ending on March 13, 2016.
The league was involved in the Central Canada Cup All-Star Challenge which will be held in Cornwall, Ontario November 16-18.
Miramichi Timberwolves player Matt Cusson was indefinitley suspended by the league for conduct detrimental to the league for actions in a game November 5th at the Pictou County Wellness Centre rink, where after being ejected from the game he flung his stick into the crowd where it narrowly missed two spectators that were watching the game from wheelchairs due to two other spectators shielding the wheelchair bound spectators including a 15 boy disabled by Muscular Dystrophy.  After the game the Timberwolves management offfered an apology to the family and offered then a trip to the Crushers next game in Miramichi for a face-to-face apology.Link to Chronicle-Herald newsarticle on incident.  The suspension is now 3 games according to the league website.
==Franchise changes==
*none
==Teams==
 	
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Eastlink South Division 	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division 	Eastlink South Division
Team 	Joined 	Centre 	Arena
Amherst Ramblers 	1967 	Amherst, Nova Scotia 	Amherst Stadium
Pictou County Crushers 	1967 	New Glasgow, Nova Scotia 	Pictou County Wellness Centre
South Shore Lumberjacks 	2004 	Bridgewater, Nova Scotia 	Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre
Truro Bearcats 	1997 	Truro, Nova Scotia 	Rath Eastlink Community Centre
Valley Wildcats 	1986 	Berwick, Nova Scotia 	Kings Mutual Century Centre
Yarmouth Mariners 	1976 	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 	Mariners Centre
Eastlink North Division 	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division 	Eastlink North Division
Team 	Joined 	Centre 	Arena
Campbellton Tigers 	1996 	Campbellton, New Brunswick 	Campbellton Memorial Civic Center
County Aces 	2014 	St. Stephen, New Brunswick 	Garcelon Civic Centre
Dieppe Commandos 	1983 	Dieppe, New Brunswick 	Arthur-J-LeBlanc Centre
Miramichi Timberwolves 	2000 	Miramichi, New Brunswick 	Miramichi Civic Centre
Summerside Western Capitals	1991 	Summerside, Prince Edward Island	Credit Union Place
Woodstock Slammers 	2003 	Woodstock, New Brunswick 	Carleton Civic Centre
==Standings==
Eastlink South Division 	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division	Eastlink South Division
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OTL 	SOL 	GF 	GA 	PIM 	P
Truro Bearcats 	48 	25 	15 	- 	5 	3 	134 	116 	1123 	58
Valley Wildcats 	48 	26 	17 	- 	2 	3 	179 	165 	1211 	57
Pictou County Crushers 	48 	25 	18 	- 	5 	0 	172 	143 	1094 	55
South Shore Lumberjacks 	48 	24 	21 	- 	2 	1 	138 	142 	1199 	51
Amherst Ramblers 	48 	17 	29 	- 	1 	1 	142 	187 	1007 	36
Yarmouth Mariners 	48 	13 	35 	- 	0 	0 	141 	222 	1002 	26
Eastlink North Division 	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division	Eastlink North Division
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OTL 	SOL 	GF 	GA 	PIM 	P
Summerside Western Capitals	48 	34 	12 	- 	1 	1 	207 	150 	1008 	70
Woodstock Slammers 	48 	32 	10 	- 	5 	1 	197 	124 	867 	70
Dieppe Commandos 	48 	33 	14 	- 	1 	0 	207 	160 	780 	67
Campbellton Tigers 	48 	23 	16 	- 	7 	2 	152 	143 	605 	55
Miramichi Timberwolves 	48 	26 	20 	- 	0 	2 	178 	177 	1377 	54
County Aces 	48 	10 	36 	- 	2 	0 	124 	242 	1302 	22
==Playoffs==
===Format===
The top four teams in each division qualified for the Kent Cup Playoffs. All three rounds will be best-of-seven. The playoff champion will advance to the 2016 Fred Page Cup which will be hosted by the Woodstock Slammers at the Carleton Civic Centre in Woodstock, New Brunswick.  The winner of the Fred Page Cup will advance to the 2016 Royal Bank Cup being held in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan hosted by the Lloydminster Bobcats of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
===South Division Semifinals===
*South Shore Lumberjacks defeated  Truro Bearcats 4 games to 3 (2-5, 2-3, 4-1, 4-1, 1-2, 2-1, 5-2)
*Pictou County Crushers defeated Valley Wildcats 4 games to 2 (2-1, 3-2, 4-1, 2-6, 1-4, 5-1)
===North Division Semifinals===
*Summerside Western Capitals defeated Campbellton Tigers 4 games to 3 (5-6, 4-5, 4-2, 3-7, 6-4, 3-1, 4-1)
*Dieppe Commandos defeated Woodstock Slammers 4 games to 3 (6-5, 5-4 (ot), 2-4, 7-3, 4-6, 1-3, 1-0)
===South Division Final===
*Pictou County Crushers defeated South Shore Lumberjacks 4 games to 1 (4-1, 1-4, 3-0, 6-3, 9-0)
===North Division Final===
*Dieppe Commandos defeated Summerside Western Capitals 4 games to 2 (2-3, 4-2, 5-4 (ot), 5-1, 3-4, 3-2 (2ot))
===Kent Cup Final===
*Pictou County Crushers defeated Dieppe Commandos 4 games to 2 (1-4, 4-1, 7-0, 1-3, 4-3, 4-3 (2ot))
The Pictou County Crushers advance to the 2016 Fred Page Cup.
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