2020 Dudley Hewitt Cup

The 2020 Dudley Hewitt Cup is a tournament that determines the Central Region (Ontario) representative for the 2020 National Junior A Championship being held in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. On August 26, 2019 it was announced that the event would be held in Fort Frances, Ontario. It will be held April 28 to May 2, 2019 at the Fort Frances Memorial Sports Centre hosted by the Fort Frances Lakers of the Superior International Junior Hockey League.

The tournament was originally announced as being awarded to the Wellington Dukes on January 9, 2019 with the unofficial word coming out on January 3rd. The bid would later be taken away from Wellington and the OJHL entirely. Several members of the Ontario Junior Hockey League violated a Canadian Junior Hockey League imposed trade deadline. On the last day of the trading period, at least seven of the 22 trades were made after the 6PM January 10th deadline, the previous years the deadline was midnight. The CJHL imposed a $50,000 fine and banned all of the 22 teams from hosting the Dudley Hewitt Cup or Royal Bank Cup for the next five years. The Wellington Dukes were not part of any of the trades that occurred after the 6pm deadline. The bid cycle among the other three leagues will be moved up to have the 2020 event be hosted by a team from the Superior International Junior Hockey League.

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.