Independent Junior Hockey League (2017)

The Independent Junior Hockey League was an proposed   unsanctioned junior hockey league with planned teams in the US states of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.  The league was planned to begin play in October 2017.
The league listed Gary Rini as the league's President and Commissioner, Colten Wilson as Deputy Commissioner of Hockey Operations and Scouting,
==Proposed teams==
The league press release of April 3, 2017 originally announced the Cleveland Chill, Fort Wayne Whalers, Holland Badgers, Maumee Valley Muskies (Greater Toledo area), Michigan Mustangs, and Port Huron Panthers.
By the end of the month of April the list was revised to the following:
*Cleveland Chill (based out of The Ice Pond in the Cleveland suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio)
*Dayton Falcons
*Fort Wayne Whalers (based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana)
*Holland Badgers (based out of Griff's IceHouse West in Holland, Michigan)
*Howell Coyotes (based out of Howell, Michigan)
*Motor City Mustangs (also labeled as the MIchigan Mustangs in league postings) (based out of the Taylor Sportsplex in Taylor, Michigan
As of mid-June 2017 the league website was no longer working and the facebook page had not been updated since April 28th
The league may have been a late April Fool's Day joke as the league logo was very similar to the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League's logo and the Deputy Commissioner in the proposed league was a 19 year old playing American Collegiate Hockey Association level hockey and an owner of a team was a back-up Tier-III goaltender in 2015.  The person listed as commissioner was the coach of a team that could not get enough players to get a team going for 2016-17.
==Links==
League website
The Junior Hockey News article on the league
The Junior Hockey New article on the league "vanishing"
Category:Established in 2017
Category:Phantom hockey leagues
Category:Disestablished in 2017