2019-20 SIJHL season

This is the 2019-20 Superior International Junior Hockey League season. This is the league's 19th season.
Each team is scheduled to play 56 games 27 at home and 27 on the road with two additional games scheduled for the league showcase. The regular season will start the third week of September and scheduled to end Mid-March.
==Suspending of Play==
The Canadian Junior Hockey League announced Thursday that effective Friday, March 13, all games and hockey-related activity involving its member clubs have been cancelled, until further notice, due to the continued threat of the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic as well as potential exposure and contamination of its players, team staff members, on and off-ice officials, volunteers and fans.https://www.mjhlhockey.ca/mjhl-covid-19-update-2020-mjhl-playoffs
==Membership Changes==
*A team to be based out of the Spooner Civic Center in Spooner, Wisconsin was approved by USA Hockey's Junior Council to join the league for 2019-20.https://www.juniorhockey.com/news/news_detail.php?news_id=93550 The team would be named the Wisconsin Lumberjacks. The arena was previously home to the Wisconsin Wilderness.
*On June 12, 2019 it was announced the Minnesota Iron Rangers would take a one year leave of absence for the 2019-20 season with the intention of relocating somewhere within the Iron Range of Minnesota.https://www.mnironrangers.com/2019/06/12/minnesota-iron-rangers-to-take-one-year-leave-of-absence-from-sijhl/ Other sources indicate that the team may have in fact folded.https://thejuniorhockeynews.com/the-death-pool-minnesota-iron-rangers-are-dead/
*On February 18, 2020 the league announced the addition of the Kam River Fighting Walleye.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/sijhl-expansion-1.5462999 The team will begin play with the 2020-21 season. The organization is moving up from the Junior B Lakehead Junior Hockey League which it has played in for the past three seasons. https://sijhlhockey.com/sijhl-expansion-kam-river-fighting-walleye-name-matt-valley-first-ever-head-coach/
==The Teams==
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Team 	Joined	Centre 	Arena
Dryden Ice Dogs 	2001 	Dryden, Ontario 	Dryden Memorial Arena
Fort Frances Lakers 	2007 	Fort Frances, Ontario 	Fort Frances Memorial Sports Centre
Red Lake Miners 	2013 	Red Lake, Ontario 	Cochenour Arena
Thief River Falls Norskies	2016 	Thief River Falls, Minnesota	Ralph Engelstad Arena
Thunder Bay North Stars 	2001 	Thunder Bay, Ontario 	Fort William Gardens
Wisconsin Lumberjacks 	2019 	Spooner, Wisconsin 	Spooner Civic Center
===On Hiatus===
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Team 	Joined	Centre 	Arena
Minnesota Iron Rangers	2011 	Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota	Hoyt Lakes Arena
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	SL	GF 	GA 	Pts
Thunder Bay North Stars 	54	34	16	4 	0 	239	195	72
Red Lake Miners 	55	32	18	3 	2 	196	176	69
Thief River Falls Norskies	54	30	21	3 	0 	213	193	63
Dryden Ice Dogs 	55	25	25	4 	1 	191	202	55
Wisconsin Lumberjacks 	54	21	27	5 	1 	168	201	48
Fort Frances Lakers 	54	21	27	4 	2 	174	214	48
==Bill Salonen Cup Playoffs==
The first round has the third place team playing the sixth place team and the fourth place team playing the fifth place team in best-of-five series. The teams are re-seeded with the lower seeded first round winner playing the 1st place team and the higher seeded first round winner playing the 2nd place team in the best-of-seven semifinals. The semifinal winners meet in the best-of seven final. The winner of the playoffs will advance to the 2020 Dudley Hewitt Cup . The winner of that tournament advances to the 2020 Centennial Cup being held in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
The season would be cancelled prior to the end of the season.
==References==
Category:2020 in hockey
Category:SIJHL Seasons