2021-22 Avalon East Senior Hockey League season

This is the 2021-22 Avalon East Senior Hockey League season. This is the league's first season under this name since changing to the East Coast Senior Hockey League back in 2017.
The league went into its' holiday break after playing on December 18th.
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador issued orders moving to Alert Level 3 which meant the end of organized team sport competition in the province until at least mid-January. https://vocm.com/2021/12/22/gov-nl-covid-update/ 
Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador (HNL) would issue a statement on January 4th indicating that bans in that province were extended to at least January 17th.https://hockeynl.ca/covid-19-update-january-4-2022/ The restrictions were later raised to Level 4. The league indicated it was waiting for the lifting of level 4 restrictions and getting approval from HNL to return to play for the balance of the season and playoffs.
The league's original planned regular season end date is February 6th.
==Teams==
 	
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Team 	Centre 	Arena
Clarenville Caribous 	Clarenville 	Eastlink Events Centre
Conception Bay South Blues 	Conception Bay South	Conception Bay South Arena & Monsignor Bartlett Memorial Arena
Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars	Harbour Grace 	Danny Cleary Community Centre
St. John's Capitals 	St. John's 	Goulds Sports Arena
Southern Shore Breakers 	Witless Bay 	Southern Shore Arena
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	GF	GA	Pts
St. John's Capitals 	15	14	1 	0 	76	35	28
Southern Shore Breakers 	15	9 	4 	2 	70	50	20
Conception Bay South Blues 	16	6 	8 	2 	65	86	14
Clarenville Caribous 	15	5 	9 	1 	54	60	11
Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars	15	4 	11	0 	51	85	8
==Joe Maynard Trophy/Herder Memorial Trophy Playoffs==
===Format===
All teams qualify. Fourth plays fifth place in a best-of-three series with the winner becoming the fourth seeds. The balance of the playoffs are best-of-three. The playoff champion is awarded the Joe Maynard Trophy as league playoff champion and the Herder Memorial Trophy as provincial senior champions.
===Quarterfinals===
(Best-of-three)
*Clarenville Caribous defeated Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars 2 games to 1
===Semifinals===
(best-of-seven)
*Clarenville Caribous defeated St. John's Capitals 4 games to 2
*Southern Shore Breakers defeated Conception Bay South Blues 4 games to 2
Note: Due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among the Clarenville team the series between the Capitals and the Caribous was delayed one week.
===Final===
(best-of-seven)
*Southern Shore Breakers defeated Clarenville Caribous 4 games to none
The league playoff champions will be awarded the Herder Memorial Trophy as the league was the only senior league in the province to play for the season.
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