2022–23 SJHL season | |
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League: | SJHL |
Sport: | Ice hockey |
Duration: | Regular season September – March Post-season March – April |
No Of Games: | 56 |
No Of Teams: | 12 |
Tv: | SaskTel maxTV |
Draft: | 2022 Draft |
Top Pick: | Rhett Vedress |
Picked By: | Weyburn Red Wings |
Season: | Canterra Seeds Cup |
League Champs: | Battlefords North Stars |
League Champ Name: | League championship |
Second Place: | Flin Flon Bombers |
Mvp: | Kian Bell |
Finals: | National championship |
Finals Link: | 2023 Centennial Cup |
Finals Champ: | Brooks Bandits (AJHL) |
Finals Runner-Up: | Battlefords North Stars (SJHL) |
Seasonslistnames: | SJHL |
Prevseason Link: | 2021–22 SJHL season |
Prevseason Year: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason Link: | 2023–24 SJHL season |
Nextseason Year: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 SJHL season was the 55th season of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. The Battlefords North Stars won the league championship Canterra Seeds Cup and went on to the 2023 Centennial Cup national championship in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
Battlefords North Stars head coach Brayden Klimosko received the Canadian Junior Hockey League Coach of the Year award.[1] The league reduced the number of regular season games from 58 to 56.[2] The league debuted its new championship trophy, the Canterra Seeds Cup.[3]
Teams played a 56-game schedule.[2] The top 8 teams at the end of the regular season advanced to the post-season.
Rank | style=width:12em | Team | style=width:2.2em | GP | style=width:2.2em | W | style=width:2.2em | L | style=width:2.2em | OTL | style=width:2.2em | SOL | style=width:2.2em | Pts |
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1 | 56 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 99 | ||||||||
2 | 56 | 40 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 81 | ||||||||
3 | 56 | 37 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 78 | ||||||||
4 | 56 | 31 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 71 | ||||||||
5 | 56 | 32 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 69 | ||||||||
6 | 56 | 28 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 61 | ||||||||
7 | 56 | 26 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 58 | ||||||||
8 | 56 | 26 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 55 | ||||||||
9 | 56 | 22 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 50 | ||||||||
10 | 56 | 19 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 39 | ||||||||
11 | 56 | 13 | 34 | 4 | 5 | 35 | ||||||||
12 | 56 | 14 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 34 | ||||||||
SJHL playoffs | |
Year: | 2023 |
Other Titles: | Canterra Seeds Cup |
Num Teams: | 8 |
Dates: | 17 March – 22 April |
Defending Champions: | Estevan Bruins |
Winners: | Battlefords North Stars |
Second: | Flin Flon Bombers |
Semifinal1: | Melfort Mustangs |
Semifinal2: | Humboldt Broncos |
Games: | 36 |
Matches: | --> |
Goals: | 210 |
Attendance: | 38,641 |
The 8 top-ranked teams at the end of the regular season qualified for the post-season. The winners of each round were determined by a best-of-7 series. In the final round, the Battlefords North Stars swept the Flin Flon Bombers in 4 games to win the Canterra Seeds Cup and advance to the 2023 Centennial Cup national championship tournament in Portage la Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.[4] [5] The Battlefords North Stars went on to lose to the Brooks Bandits of the AJHL in the 2023 Centennial Cup final.[6]