2015-16 HJBHL Season

This is the 2015-16 Heritage Junior B Hockey League season. This is the league's 29th season

Franchise Changes

 * The Medicine Hat Cubs were forced to cease operations in mid-January for the balance of the season due to a lack of players.  The league had stated in a press release after the announcement that they were expecting the team to attend the league annual general meeting in May with a plan in place to be able to restart the team for the 2016-17 season

Current Teams (2015-16)
The HJHL has 2 divisions for the 2015-2016 season.

Standings

 * The Medicine Hat Cubs suspended operations for the balance of the season in mid-January.  The league announced on January 16th that the balance of the games will be treated as a 1-0 victory for the Cubs opponent.  The Cubs had a record of 5-28-0 and 89 goals for and 176 allowed when they suspended operations.

Format
The top six teams in each divison qualify for the playoffs. The top two seeds earm a bye into the division semifinals. The 3rd place team plays the 6th place team and the 4th place team plays the 5th place team in a best-of-three qualifying round. The teams are re-seeded for the  best-of-seven divison semifinal round. The division semifinal winners meet in the best-of-seven division final round. The divison winners meet in the best-of-seven league championship series. For overtime play the league uses one ten minute overtime period folllowed by 20 minute overtime periods.

North Conference Elimination Round

 * Red Deer defeated Ponoka 2 games to none (7-0, 10-1)
 * Blackfalds defeated Three Hills (4-3 (2ot), 8-2)

South Conference Elimination Round

 * Coaldale Defeated High River 2 games to none (5-1, 8-2)
 * Strathmore defeated Banff 2 games to none (7-5, 4-3)

North Conference Semifinals

 * Mountainview defeated Blackfalds 4 games to none (5-2, 7-3, 7-1, 4-3 (ot))
 * Airdrie defeated Red Deer 4 games to 3 (2-3, 7-4, 4-6, 4-3, 1-2, 4-2, 4-5)

South Conference Semifinals

 * Cochrane defeated Strathmore 4 games to none (7-2, 4-0, 9-2, 5-4 (ot))
 * Okotoks vs Coaldale defeated Okotoks 4 games to 2 (6-3, 4-5, 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 (ot), 4-2)

North Conference Final

 * Mountainview defeated Airdrie 4 games to none (5-1, 4-3, 3-1, 6-3)

South Conference Final

 * Cochrane defeated Coaldale 4 games to 1 (6-1, 11-5, 1-4, 3-2, 6-5 (3 ot)

League Championship
Both league finalists Mountainview Colts and Cochrane Generals qualify for the 2016 Russ Barnes Trophy.
 * Mountainview defeated Cochrane 4 games to 2 (1-2, 5-3, 1-5, 4-3 (ot), 5-4, 4-2)