Junior Canadian Hockey League

The Junior Canadian Hockey League is a proposed junior hockey league in the planning stages apparently to be based in southwestern Ontario. The league is being created by Joe Machado, who is the owner of the Cambridge Winter Hawks; formerly of the Junior B level Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL). Machado issued a release stating that the team was being pulled from the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) and the GOJHL in protest of the OHA denying the GOJHL Junior A status. Machado indicated that he would absolutely not join an outlaw league (i.e. the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMJHL)). Other possibilities included joining a Junior A league or creating their own league.

No teams have been indicated as joining the league but Hockey Canada and the Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) issued a statement on June 2, 2017 stating that the new league would not be sanctioned by either governing body as the league refuses to be affiliated with the OHA and the OHA has jurisdiction over Junior Hockey Teams in all regions of Ontario, except in the NOHA, Hockey Eastern Ontario and Hockey Northwestern Ontario and that any team joining the league would no longer be sanctioned by the OHA, OHF, or Hockey Canada.