2018-19 OSAHL Season

This is the 2018-19 Outaouais Senior A Hockey League season.
This is the league's first season after being founded in the spring of 2018. The league was founded to give players who are too old to play junior or their college/university or professional career is over and they are not quite ready to hang up the skates.
The league's vision is to become a sustainable option for senior hockey in the region within three years. The league aims to have 8 to 12 franchises at the Senior AAA level federated with Hockey Canada, which will compete for the Allan Cup representing Quebec. Within the five years the plan is have a league member host the Allan Cup tournament. https://www.lhsao.ca/
==Opening season Preparations==
The league website originally listed four teams logos for the league's inaugural season of 2018-19, with plans to start the season with six teams. Plans are to play a 20 game schedule plus playoffs. The teams include the Fort-Coulonge Sr Comets (announced April 29th), Shawville Sr Pontiacs (announced May 1st), and the Cornwall Prowlers (announced May 8th)(to be based out of the Benson Centre) .https://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/news/local/2018/5/8/new-senior-hockey-team-in-the-works-for-cornwall.html The Maniwaki Forestiers were announced on June 8, 2018.https://lhsao.ca/news/du-hockey-senior-a-maniwaki/
Due to a lack of sponsors the Shawville Sr Pontiacs relocated to Low, Quebec and were renamed the Central Gatineau Voyageurs.https://lhsao.ca/news/changements-dans-la-lhsao/
The Hull Sr Volant were announced as a team to play in the opening season of the league but did not come to fruition.
The Mont-Laurier Montagnards were announced on July 26, 2018.https://lhsao.ca/news/le-grand-retour-des-montagnards-alexandre-dube/
The Cardinal Broncos the backed out earlier in the summer of 2018. The Central Gatineau Voyageurs and the Maxville Maniacs were originally due to be in the league but backed out late in the summer.
The Cumberland Sr. Bandits would withdraw from the league on November 29, 2018.
==Teams==
Team 	Town 	Arena
Cumberland Sr. Bandits 	Orleans, Ontario 	Ray Friel Recreation Complex
Cornwall Prowlers 	Cornwall, Ontario 	Benson Centre
Pontiac Comets 	Fort-Coulonge, Quebec 	Arena Fort-Coulonge
Maniwaki Forestiers 	Maniwaki, Quebec 	Centre Gino-Odjick
Mont-Laurier Montagnards	Mont-Laurier, Quebec 	Centre sportif Jacques-Lesage
Vaudreuil Titans 	Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec	Aréna Vaudreuil-Dorion
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	GF 	GA 	Pts
Mont-Laurier Montagnards	21	14	6 	1 	132	92 	29
Vaudreuil Titans 	21	11	7 	3 	134	116	25
Maniwaki Forestiers 	21	10	10	1 	112	124	21
Pontiac Comets 	21	10	11	0 	114	117	20
Cornwall Prowlers 	21	9 	10	2 	116	134	20
Cumberland Sr. Bandits 	7 	2 	5 	0 	36 	61 	4
==Playoffs==
===Preliminary Round===
Cornwall Prowlers defeated Pontiac Comets 2 games to none
===Semifinals===
*Mont-Laurier Montagnards defeated Cornwall Prowlers 3 games to 1
*Maniwaki Forestiers defeated Vaudreuil Titans 3 games to 1
===Final===
*Mont-Laurier Montagnards defeated Maniwaki Forestiers 4 games to 2
==References==
Category:2019 in hockey
Category:Outaouais Senior A Hockey League seasons