2016-17 TRSHL Season

This is the 2016-17 Twin Rivers Senior Hockey League season.  This is the league's first season
The league was announced in mid-September 2016.  The Warman Wildcats joined from the Fort Carlton Senior Hockey League.  The Rosthern Wheat Kings joined from the Wheatland Senior Hockey League and the Birch Hills Blackhawks joined from the Beaver Lakes Hockey League.  The league was also announced with teams from Clavet (Cougars), Cudworth, St. Louis, and Vonda, Saskatchewan.  A second team from Dalmeny (Dalmeny Sabers) will be a member of the league (not the present team (Dalmeny Fury) from the Fort Carlton Senior Hockey League.
On January 5, 2017 it was announced that the Vonda Chiefs had decided to discontinue play in the league.  The league announced that all of the team's games (including one's already played would be considered 1-0 forfeit losses and all stats from the game have been deleted.  The league also annouced that the league scoring championship would have a 18/16 multiplier/divsion ratio done as the North Division teams would only have 16 games as opposed to the South Division teams playing 18 games.https://ccgazette.ca/tag/vonda-chiefs/
==Teams==
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Team 	Centre 	Arena
Birch Hills Blackhawks 	Birch Hills	Birch Hills Skating Rink
Clavet Cougars 	Clavet 	Clavet Arena
Cudworth Tricky Maroons	Cudworth 	Cudworth Arena
Dalmeny Sabers 	Dalmeny 	Dalmeny Arena
Rosthern Wheat Kings 	Rosthern 	Rosthern Jubilee Sports Centre
St. Louis Sr. Blues 	St. Louis 	St. Louis Skating Rink
Vonda Chiefs 	Vonda 	Vonda Memorial Rink
Warman Wildcats 	Warman 	
Warman Home Centre Communiplex &Warman Diamond Rodeo Arena
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	GF 	GA 	Pts
Rosthern Wheat Kings 	20	17	2 	1 	102	41 	35
St. Louis Sr. Blues 	20	16	4 	0 	116	84 	32
Birch Hills Blackhawks 	20	12	7 	1 	96 	70 	25
Warman Wildcats 	20	10	8 	2 	74 	87 	22
Clavet Cougars 	20	9 	11	0 	73 	97 	18
Dalmeny Sabres 	20	8 	11	1 	60 	76 	17
Cudworth Tricky Maroons	20	8 	12	0 	76 	122	16
Vonda Chiefs 	13	0 	13	0 	29 	203	0
league website
Note: Officially Vonda's record was 20-0-20-0-0-20-0 as the league made all of the team's games 1-0 forfeit losses and the stats from those games were omitted.  The above information is from a tweet posted by the Cudworth Tricky Maroons from December 31, 2016 that showed the league standings as of the end of 2016.  There were no games scheduled for Vonda between December 31st and January 5th.
==Playoffs==
===Format===
All seven remaining teams qualify for the playoffs.  The top seed earns a bye to the semifinal. The teams are matched up 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5 in the best of three quarterfinals.  The regular season champion meets the lowest seeded quarterfinal winner  and the other two quarterfinal winner meet in the best of five semifinals.  The semifinal winners meeting in the best of five league final
===Quarterfinals===
*St Louis defeated Cudworth 2 games to none
*Birch Hills defeated Dalmeny 2 games to none
*Warman defeated Clavet 2 games to none
===Semifinals===
*Rosthern defeated Warman 3 games to none
*St. Louis defeated Birch Hills 3 games to 2
===Final===
*St. Louis defeated Rosthern 3 games to 1
==References==
Category:2017 in hockey
Category:Twin Rivers Senior Hockey League seasons