2021-22 WOSHL season

This is the 2021-22 Western Ontario Super Hockey League season The league is a men's senior league founded for the 2021-22 playing season. The league was in the planning stages since 2020. 
In early April of 2021 the league announced the initial six teams. The Elora Rocks and Tillsonburg Thunder joined the league from the WOAA Senior AA Hockey League. New teams added to the league included the Alvinston Killer Bees, Langton Sr. Royals, Stratford Fighting Irish, and Strathroy Jets. Two more teams will be announced shortly after that for 2021-22. Upwards of 15 teams have shown interest in joining the league according to Jamie Petrie, WOSHL president and could be added to the league over the next several seasons.
On August 31, 2021 the Langton Sr. Royals announced that they would not be able to participate in the league's first season due to restrictions in place for facilities in Norfolk County.http://woshl.hockeyshift.com/news/norfolk-county
On April 18, 2022 the league announced the approval of two expansion teams for the 2022-23 season, the Delhi Flames and the Plattsville Lakers.http://woshl.hockeyshift.com/news/woshl-votes-in-2-new-teams-for-2023
On June 8, 2022 the league announced the addition of the Tilbury Sr. Bluebirds to begin play with the 2022-23 season.https://www.woshl.com/news/birds-fly-again-tilbury-bluebirds-are-our-8th-teamhttps://blackburnnews.com/chatham/chatham-news/2022/06/11/tilbury-bluebirds-fly/ The team will be based out of the Tilbury and District Memorial Community Centre.
On June 10, 2022 the league announced the addition of the Erin Blitz for the 2022-23 season. https://www.woshl.com/news/and-now-we-are-9-welcome-the-erin-blitzhttps://guelphsportsjournal.com/erin-blitz-one-of-four-new-teams-for-woshl/ The team will be based out of the Erin Community Centre.
==Pausing of Play==
On December 11th the league would announce it was cancelling some games the weekend of December 11-12 due to numerous positive COVID tests among players.https://www.facebook.com/eoshl/posts/1114186526070221 It would enter its' holiday break after games a few games the next weekend and plans to resume play on January 7th.http://woshl.hockeyshift.com/news/bees-win-big-weekend-heading-into-christmas-break The league would issue a statement that due to new COVID restrictions all league activities were on hold until at least January 31st.http://woshl.hockeyshift.com/news/all-woshl-events-p-ostponed
==Teams==
Team 	Town 	Arena
Alvinston Killer Bees 	Alvinston 	Brooke – Alvinston – Inwood Community Centre
Elora Rocks 	Elora 	Elora & District Community Centre
Stratford Fighting Irish	Stratford 	William Allman Memorial Arena
Strathroy Jets 	Strathroy 	West Middlesex Memorial Arena
Tillsonburg Thunder 	Tilsonburg	Colin Campbell Community Arena
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	T	OL	GF 	GA 	Pts
Elora Rocks 	20	17	3 	0	0 	138	38 	34
Strathroy Jets 	20	13	5 	0	2 	83 	63 	28
Tillsonburg Thunder 	20	10	10	0	0 	109	83 	20
Stratford Fighting Irish	20	8 	10	1	1 	90 	91 	18
Alvinston Killer Bees 	20	1 	18	1	0 	48 	163	3
==Playoffs==
===Format===
All teams qualify. The fourth and fifth place teams play in a best-of-three quarterfinal series with the winner becoming the fourth seed. The semifinal and final rounds are best-of-seven.
===Quarterfinals===
*Stratford Fighting Irish defeated Alvinston Killer Bees 2 games to none 
===Semifinals===
*Elora Rocks defeated Stratford Fighting Irish 4 games to none
*Tillsonburg Thunder defeated Strathroy Jets 4 games to none
===Final===
*Elora Rocks defeated Tillsonburg Thunder 4 games to 2
The league has announced an intent to play a series between their playoff champion and the playoff champion of the Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League.
==References==
==Links==
League website
league facebook page
Category:Western Ontario Super Hockey League seasons
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