2021-22 WSHL Season

This is the 2021-22 Western States Hockey League season. This is the league's 28th season.

Membership Changes
The league assumed operations of the Oklahoma City Blazers on January 1, 2020. The team would be dissolved once the season was cancelled. The previous owner would establish a team in the North American 3 Hockey League for the 2020-21 season also using the Oklahoma City Blazers moniker and then change to the Oklahoma City Ice Hawks for the 2021-22 season.

On April 17, 2020 the Anaheim Avalanche, Fresno Monsters, Las Vegas Thunderbirds, Northern Colorado Eagles, Pueblo Bulls, San Diego Sabers, Southern Oregon Spartans, and Utah Outliers were announced as joining the United States Premier Hockey League's Premier League for the 2020-21 season. On April 21st the Ogden Mustangs were announced as joining them.

At the end of the 2019–20 regular season, the Valencia Flyers' home rink was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ice Station Valencia, which was also owned by the Flyers' owner Roger Perez. The closure was made permanent due to the financial losses incurred by the shutdown, leaving the future of the team undetermined.

On June 16, 2020 the El Paso Rhinos were added to the North American 3 Hockey League from the Western States Hockey League. They will also join the North American Hockey League for the 2021-22 season.

On January 22, 2021 the league announced the addition of the Vancouver Devils who are due to be based out of Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia who will begin play with the 2021-22 season. The team appears to have been quietly removed from the league for the 2021-22 season. The move is likely due to the team being the only Canadian team in an otherwise all-US based division. The move to the Provincial Division would have been economically unfeasible for the other teams as well.

On July 28, 2021 the league announced the approval of the relocation of the Edson Aeros to Cold Lake where they will be known as the Cold Lake Aeros and will be located out of the Cold Lake Energy Centre.

The Barrhead Bombers relocated to Medford, Oregon after former WSHL member the Southern Oregon Spartans who withdrew from the WSHL to join the United States Premier Hockey League for the 2020-21 season and then withdrew after a few games and were planning on sitting out the 2021-22 season lost their lease at The RRRink. The team intended to keep the Bombers nickname but no prefix to the teams name was announced. The team would later be announced as the Rogue Valley Royals. A second team taking the name of the franchise when it was in Barrhead is started when the rights were sold to local interests in Barrhead.

On August 1, 2021 the league announced the addition of the Vernal Oilers. The team will be based out of the Western Park Ice Rink in Vernal, Utah.

On August 5, 2021 the league announced the addition of the Utah Altitude. The team will be based out of the Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah in suburban Salt Lake City.

As part of the same announcement that introduced the Utah Altitude the addition of the Edmonton Eagles was also announced for the 2021-22 season.

The Cold Lake Hornets, Dallas Snipers, Meadow Lake Mustangs, and Wichita Jr. Thunder all fold during the league's dormancy

On November 1, 2021 the Utah Altitude would announce they were ceasing operations effective immediately citing the best interest of their players and the league. The team cancelled its' second game earlier in the day.

On November 5, 2021 the the league announced that the Northwest Division would be going dormant.

On November 6, 2021 it was announced that the Bellingham Blazers and Vernal Oilers would continue to play an be added to the Provincial Division. Bellingham would appear to play its' last game on November 20th.

The league held the 2021 Western States Shootout at the Las Vegas Ice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada from December 19 to 21. The Edmonton Eagles did not attend the event which apparently automatically terminated their membership in the league and the AAU/UHU.

On January 5, 2022 the six teams that were still playing decided after meetings held at the Western States Shootout in Las Vegas to withdraw from the AAU and the league to form the Can-Am Junior Hockey League which would continue play for the balance of the 2021-22 season.

Standings
To be added upon completion of the regular season.

Northwest Division
(As of suspending of division play on November 5th)

Provincial Division
(As of teams withdrawing on January 5th)