2019-20 NOJHL season

This is the 2019-20 Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League season. This is the league's 50th season overall dating back to the founding of the NOHA Junior B Hockey League in 1970, and the league's 42nd season under this name. Each team will play 56 games with 27 at home, 27 on the road and two games being held at Pullar Stadium in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for the 4th Annual NOJHL Showcase October 15-16, 2019. The regular season will run September 5th, 2019 to March 1st, 2020.

The league will send two teams to take part in the 2020 SJHL / MJHL Showcase in Regina, Saskatchewan January 21-22, 2020.



Suspending of Play
The Canadian Junior Hockey League announced Thursday that effective Friday, March 13, all games and hockey-related activity involving its member clubs have been cancelled, until further notice, due to the continued threat of the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic as well as potential exposure and contamination of its players, team staff members, on and off-ice officials, volunteers and fans.

Membership changes

 * None for 2019-20 but the Elliot Lake Wildcats announce on May 10, 2020 that the team will be sitting out the 2020-21 season.

Format
The top five teams in each division qualify for the playoffs. The fourth place team plays the fifth place team in a best of three series. The series winner becomes the fourth seed and plays the first place team in the division semifinals and the second place team plays the third place team in best of seven series. The semifinal winners meet in the best of seven division championship series. The division champions meet in the best of seven Copeland Cup-McNamara Trophy final.

The playoff champion (or the runners-up if the Cochrane Crunch win the Copeland Cup-NcNamara Trophy Playoffs) will advance to the 2020 Dudley Hewitt Cup. The winner of that tournament will advance to the 2020 Centennial Cup being held at Stride Place in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba hosted by the Portage Terriers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

East Preliminary Round

 * Cochrane Crunch defeated Kirkland Lake Gold Miners 2 games to 1

West Preliminary Round

 * Soo Eagles defeated Espanola Express 2 games to none

East Semifinals

 * Hearst Lumberjacks lead Timmins Rock 1 game to none

Balance of series had not started when playoffs are cancelled.