Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League

The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (French: la Ligue de hockey junior Maritimes Québec, shortened as QMJHL in English, LHJMQ in French) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which make up the Canadian Hockey League. Because the name of the league is so long, it is sometimes called the "Q". It was known as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League until 2023.

There are 18 teams in the QMJHL that are in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island in Canada. One of the New Brunswick teams will move to Newfoundland and Labrador after the 2024–25 season. The winner of the QMJHL plays against the winners of the Western Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League for the Memorial Cup. Many good players go from the QMJHL to the National Hockey League, and nine players from the QMJHL are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

History
The QMJHL was created in 1969 from two different junior leagues in Quebec, the Quebec Junior Hockey League and the Metropolitan Montreal Junior Hockey League. These two teams wanted to make a better junior league for the province, so combined teams from their leagues. Eight teams were from the QJHL and two from the MMJHL and another team came from a town in Ontario on the Ontario-Quebec border. Nearly every team was within a close distance of Montreal, the largest city in Quebec, though no team played in Montreal.

In 1972 the QMJHL finally wanted a team in Montreal, and tried to get the Montreal Junior Canadiens, who played in the Ontario Hockey Association, to join. The OHA made a deal with the QMJHL and gave them the Junior Canadiens while creating a new team in a different city to keep an OHA team with the same name.

In December 2023, the league changed its logo and the name of the league to the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League. This was done to recognize the Maritimes teams that are also in the league.

Member teams

 Division  Team  City  Arena WestBlainville-Boisbriand ArmadaBoisbriand, QuebecCentre d'Excellence Sports RousseauDrummondville VoltigeursDrummondville, QuebecCentre Marcel DionneGatineau OlympiquesGatineau, QuebecCentre Robert GuertinRouyn-Noranda HuskiesRouyn-Noranda, QuebecAréna IamgoldSherbrooke PhoenixSherbrooke, QuebecPalais des SportsVal-d'Or ForeursVal-d'Or, QuebecCentre Air Creebec EastBaie-Comeau DrakkarBaie-Comeau, QuebecCentre Henry-LeonardChicoutimi SaguenéensSaguenay, QuebecCentre Georges-VézinaQuebec RempartsQuebec City, QuebecCentre VidéotronRimouski OcéanicRimouski, QuebecColisée de RimouskiShawinigan CataractesShawinigan, QuebecCentre Gervais AutoVictoriaville TigresVictoriaville, QuebecColisée Desjardins MaritimesAcadie–Bathurst TitanBathurst, New BrunswickK.C. Irving Regional CentreCape Breton EaglesSydney, Nova ScotiaCentre 200Charlottetown IslandersCharlottetown, Prince Edward IslandEastlink CentreHalifax MooseheadsHalifax, Nova ScotiaScotiabank CentreMoncton WildcatsMoncton, New BrunswickAvenir CentreSaint John Sea DogsSaint John, New BrunswickTD Station

References

Other websites

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Official website 
Canadian Hockey League Official website
Internet Hockey Database Archive of standings and statistics

Category:Canadian Hockey League
Category:Sport in Quebec
Category:1969 establishments in Canada
Category:1969 establishments in Quebec