(LEAGUE) – (NBJHK) – New Brunswick Junior Hockey League

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In 2003, the original New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League folded. The league was formed in the 1980s from the five regional Jr. B leagues of New Brunswick when the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League folded in 1983.

The void, in 2003, was filled by the New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League. In 2007-08, the league attempted to service both Jr. B and Jr. C needs in the province. A year later, the league elected to only send Jr. C champions to interprovincial play, sending that year’s Junior C Champions, the Hampton Hurricanes to Atlantics.

In the summer of 2009, five of the top teams of the NBJCHL broke away formed their own Jr. B league, the NBJBHL. These teams were the Moncton Vito’s, Grand Lake Wild Moose, Port City Ice Dawgs, Tri-County River Cats, and Black’s Harbour Silver Kings.

As New Brunswick no longer has a formal Junior C league, bottom tier teams of the NBJBHL collectively make-up the Junior C division, with the winner competing at the Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championship.

In the Spring of 2012, the Moncton Vito’s dropped the fifth game of the NBJBHL final to Tri-County to give them their third provincial title. Just like in 2010, the River Cats unceremoniously dropped the right to play for the Don Johnson Cup, the Atlantic Junior B Championship. The Vito’s went in their place and with a 1-3-0 record in the round robin, advanced to the playoff rounds. In the semi-final, the Vito’s defeated the 4-0-0 host St. John’s Jr. Caps 5-4 in overtime. In the final, the Vito’s defeated the 4-1-0 East Hants Penguins of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League 2-1 in overtime to become the first New Brunswick team to win the Atlantica Junior B Champion in a decade and the first Atlantic Championship for the new NBJBHL.

For the 2013-14 season, the league lost the Miramichi River Maniacs but gained the Kent Coyotes and Fundy Cobras. For the 2014-15 season, the league accepted another pair of new teams, the Sackville Storm and the Sunny Corner Thunder.

The 2015-16 season saw the league split into the Don Johnson (Junior “B”) with some interlocking games against the PEI junior B league, and the Maritime Hockey North (Junior “C”) league.

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