2016-17 LNAH season

This is the 2016-17 Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey season.  This is the league's 21st season overall dating back to its' founding in 1996 as the semi-professional Quebec Semi Professional Hockey League.  This is the league's 13th season under this name.
==Membership changes==
*The Cornwall River Kings ceased operations in late August 2016.  The league had tried to find new local ownership for the team and ended up dispersing the players to other members of the league.
*On May 31, 2017 the Laval Prédateurs mangaement announced they were ceasing operations on the team's facebook page.  The team had changed ownership during the 2016-17 season.  The posting stated that the team had attempted to relocate to three different locations without sucess and had attempted to work out arrangements to sit out the 2017-18 season and resume play for the 2018-19 season but an agreement could not be worked out with other parties.
==Teams==
Team 	City 	Province	Arena 	Joined
Jonquière Marquis 	Saguenay 	Quebec 	Palais des Sports de Saguenay	1996
Rivière-du-Loup 3L 	Rivière-du-Loup	Quebec 	Centre Premier Tech 	2008
Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5	Saint-Georges 	Quebec 	Centre Sportif Lacroix-Dutil 	1996
Sorel-Tracy Éperviers 	Sorel-Tracy 	Quebec 	Colisée Cardin 	1996
Thetford Mines Assurancia 	Thetford Mines 	Quebec 	Centre Mario Gosselin 	1996
Trois-Rivières Blizzard 	Trois-Rivières 	Quebec 	Colisée de Trois-Rivières 	1996
Laval Prédateurs 	Laval 	Quebec 	Colisee de Laval 	2013
==Standings==
Team 	GP	W 	L 	OL	GF 	GA 	Pts
Jonquière Marquis 	40	30	7 	3 	177	118	63
Sorel-Tracy Éperviers 	40	25	12	3 	153	120	53
Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5	40	20	15	5 	144	158	45
Thetford Mines Assurancia 	40	20	16	4 	151	148	44
Rivière-du-Loup 3L 	40	17	17	6 	146	161	40
Laval Prédateurs 	40	16	21	3 	144	183	35
Trois-Rivières Blizzard 	40	12	23	5 	149	176	29
==Playoffs==
===Format===
Originally, all eight teams were to make the playoffs but with the late withdrawal of the Cornwall River Kings, the playoffs were reformated so all teams qualified and the two highest seeded quarterfinal losers were matched up in the Repechage series for a semifinals berth. All series are best-of-seven except for the repechage round which is best-of-three
===Quarterfinals===
*Jonquière Marquis defeated Laval Prédateurs 4 games to 2
*Sorel-Tracy Éperviers defeated Rivière-du-Loup 3L 4 games to 3
*Thetford Mines Assurancia defeated Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 4 games to 1
===Repechage===
*Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 defeated Rivière-du-Loup 3L 2 games to none
===Semifinals===
*Jonquière Marquis defeated Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 4 games to 1
*Thetford Mines Assurancia defeated Sorel-Tracy Éperviers 4 games to 2
===Final===
*Jonquière Marquis defeated Thetford Mines Assurancia 4 games to none
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