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| Western Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League |
 |
| Head Office |
Cambridge, Ontario |
| Official Web site |
WOJHL |
| Convenor |
Bill Weir |
| Chairman |
Bob Haley |
| Founded |
1969 |
The Western Junior B Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The league's playoff champion will compete with the champions of the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League and Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League for the Sutherland Cup, the Provincial Championship.
[edit] History
The Western had been a part of the Big '10' until 1956, when the Eastern and Western conference were split into separate leagues -- the Eastern becoming the Central, the Western becoming the Western League.
In 1968, the St.Thomas Barons, Sarnia Legionnaires, Guelph Imperials, Chatham Maroons and Brantford Foresters broke away from the Ontario Hockey Association to form a Junior "A" League known as the Western Ontario Junior A Hockey League. A year later, the OHA pulled together a bunch of local teams (the Waterloo Siskins, Stratford Warriors, Sarnia Bees, St.Mary's Lincolns and the London Squires) as well as the return of the Strathroy Rockets (who had joined the Central Junior B league for a season) and formed a new Western Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League. According to the WOJHL history, a re-organization of Ontario's Jr. B hockey teams occurred prior to the 1978/79 and the Western Jr. B Hockey League became one of five divisions of Ontario hockey at that level. Although this marks the birth of the modern Western Ontario Jr. B league, the teams in the league did not change.
From 1999 until 2001, the league changed its name to the Greater Ontario Hockey League in an attempt to drop the "Junior B" designation [1].
[edit] The Teams
[edit] 2006-07 Playoffs
- For the Ontario Hockey Association "All-Ontario Jr. "B" Championship", please go to the Sutherland Cup.
[edit] Playoff Champions
- 2007 Strathroy Rockets
- 2006 Chatham Maroons
- 2005 Chatham Maroons
- 2004 Chatham Maroons
- 2003 Petrolia Jets
- 2002 Sarnia Blast
- 2001 Chatham Maroons
- 2000 Chatham Maroons
- 1999 Chatham Maroons
- 1998 Chatham Maroons
- 1997 Strathroy Rockets
- 1996 St. Thomas Stars
- 1995 St. Thomas Stars
- 1994 St. Marys Lincolns
- 1993 Sarnia Bees
- 1992 London Diamonds
- 1991 Chatham Mic Macs
- 1990 Chatham Mic Macs
- 1989 Sarnia Bees
- 1988 St. Thomas Stars
- 1987 St. Thomas Stars
- 1986 St. Thomas Stars
- 1985 St. Mary's Lincolns
- 1984 London Diamonds
- 1983 London Diamonds
- 1982 Sarnia Bees
- 1981 London Diamonds
- 1980 Windsor Royals
- 1979 Windsor Royals
- 1978
- 1977
- 1976 St. Marys Lincolns
- 1975
- 1974
- 1973 Sarnia Bees
- 1972 St. Marys Lincolns
- 1971
- 1970
[edit] Previous Member Teams
[edit] External links
