2015-16 HJBHL Season

This is the 2015-16 Heritage Junior B Hockey League season.  This is the league's 29th season
==Franchise Changes==
*The Medicine Hat Cubs were forced to cease operations in mid-January for the balance of the season due to a lack of players.  The league had stated in a press release after the announcement that they were expecting the team to attend the league annual general meeting in May with a plan in place to be able to restart the team for the 2016-17 season
==Current Teams (2015-16)==
The HJHL has 2 divisions for the 2015-2016 season.
Team 	Centre 	Arena 	 	
North Division 	North Division	North Division 	North Division	North Division
Airdrie Thunder 	Airdrie 	Ron Ebbesen Arena 	 	
Blackfalds Wranglers 	Blackfalds 	Blackfalds Arena 	 	
Mountainview Colts 	Didsbury 	Didsbury Recreation Complex 	 	
Ponoka Stampeders 	Ponoka 	Ponoka Culture & Recreation Complex 	 	
Red Deer Vipers 	Red Deer 	Red Deer Arena 	 	
Stettler Lightning 	Stettler 	Stettler Recreation Centre 	 	
Three Hills Thrashers 	Three Hills 	Three Hills Centennial Place 	 	
South Division 	South Division	South Division 	South Division	South Division
Banff Academy Bears 	Banff 	Banff Recreation Centre 	 	
Coaldale Copperheads 	Coaldale 	Coaldale Arena 	 	
Cochrane Generals 	Cochrane 	Spray Lakes Sawmills Family Sports Centre	 	
High River Flyers 	High River 	Bob Snodgrass Recreation Complex 	 	
Medicine Hat Cubs 	Medicine Hat 	Kinplex 	 	
Okotoks Bisons 	Okotoks 	Murray Arena 	 	
Strathmore Wheatland Kings	Strathmore 	Strathmore Family Centre 	 	
==Standings==
Eastern Division 	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division	Eastern Division
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OTL 	SOL 	GF 	GA 	PIM 	P
Mountainview Colts 	38 	27 	10 	 	0 	1 	193 	121 	 	55
Airdrie Thunder 	38 	26 	10 	 	2 	0 	193 	120 	 	54
Red Deer Vipers 	38 	25 	9 	 	1 	3 	162 	113 	 	54
Blackfalds Wranglers 	38 	22 	12 	 	2 	2 	163 	121 	 	48
Three Hills Thrashers 	38 	19 	16 	 	0 	3 	155 	158 	 	41
Ponoka Stampeders 	38 	11 	25 	 	2 	0 	122 	217 	 	24
Stettler Lightning 	38 	9 	26 	 	1 	2 	112 	207 	 	21
Western Division 	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division	Western Division
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	OTL 	SOL 	GF 	GA 	PIM 	P
Cochrane Generals 	38 	29 	5 	 	3 	1 	198 	112 	 	62
Okotoks Bisons 	38 	29 	9 	 	0 	0 	214 	119 	 	58
Coaldale Copperheads 	38 	26 	10 	 	1 	1 	213 	144 	 	54
Banff Academy Bears 	38 	14 	23 	 	1 	0 	129 	189 	 	29
Strathmore Wheatland Kings	38 	13 	23 	 	1 	1 	142 	184 	 	28
High River Flyers 	38 	11 	24 	 	3 	0 	106 	205 	 	25
*Medicine Hat Cubs 	38 	5 	33 	 	0 	0 	89 	181 	 	10
*The Medicine Hat Cubs suspended operations for the balance of the season in mid-January.  The league announced on January 16th that the balance of the games will be treated as a 1-0 victory for the Cubs opponent.  The Cubs had a record of 5-28-0 and 89 goals for and 176 allowed when they suspended operations.
==Playoffs==
===Format===
The top six teams in each divison qualify for the playoffs.  The top two seeds earm a bye into the division semifinals. The 3rd place team plays the 6th place team and the 4th place team plays the 5th place team in a best-of-three qualifying round.  The teams are re-seeded for the  best-of-seven divison semifinal round.  The division semifinal winners meet in the best-of-seven division final round.  The divison winners meet in the best-of-seven league championship series.  For overtime play the league uses one ten minute overtime period folllowed by 20 minute overtime periods.
===North Conference Elimination Round===
*Red Deer defeated Ponoka 2 games to none (7-0, 10-1)
*Blackfalds defeated Three Hills (4-3 (2ot), 8-2)
===South Conference Elimination Round===
*Coaldale Defeated High River 2 games to none (5-1, 8-2)
*Strathmore defeated Banff 2 games to none (7-5, 4-3)
===North Conference Semifinals===
*Mountainview defeated Blackfalds 4 games to none (5-2, 7-3, 7-1, 4-3 (ot))
*Airdrie defeated Red Deer 4 games to 3 (2-3, 7-4, 4-6, 4-3, 1-2, 4-2, 4-5)
===South Conference Semifinals===
*Cochrane defeated Strathmore 4 games to none (7-2, 4-0, 9-2, 5-4 (ot))
*Okotoks vs Coaldale defeated Okotoks 4 games to 2 (6-3, 4-5, 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 (ot), 4-2)
===North Conference Final===
*Mountainview defeated Airdrie 4 games to none (5-1, 4-3, 3-1, 6-3)
===South Conference Final===
*Cochrane defeated Coaldale 4 games to 1 (6-1, 11-5, 1-4, 3-2, 6-5 (3 ot)
===League Championship===
*Mountainview defeated Cochrane 4 games to 2 (1-2, 5-3, 1-5, 4-3 (ot), 5-4, 4-2)
Both league finalists Mountainview Colts and Cochrane Generals qualify for the 2016 Russ Barnes Trophy.
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