2018-19 CWSHL Season

This is the 2018-19 Central/West Senior Hockey League season.

Senior hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador has been on shaky ground over the past few seasons as the Avalon East Senior Hockey League was pretty much well dissolved and was replaced by the East Coast Senior Hockey League which was the same league minus the Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars. The Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars tried to revive the AESHL with the addition of two teams Mount Pearl Blades and the Paradise Warriors but Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador would not make the league Senior A and thus eligible to compete for the Herder Memorial Trophy, so the league did not play and the Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars were ineligible to defend their Herder championship.

A plan was proposed to have the Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars join the CWSHL for the 2018-19 season. The proposal would link the province's three Senior hockey leagues with some interlocking play. The Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts and the Gander Flyers would play each other 8 times (4 home, 4 away) and the Clarenville Caribous and Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars do the same. Two teams from the Newfoundland West Coast Senior Hockey League would play home and home weekend series with the Cataracts and Flyer to round out their schedules and four teams from the ECSHL would play home and home series with the Cee Bee Stars and Caribous to round out their schedules. This would fall through.

A new plan announced on October 1st has the Clarenville Cariobous joining the ECSHL, Harbour Grace sitting out the season, Gander and Grand Falls making up the CWSHL and playing each other 8-10 times as well as playing one game home and away against each of the ECSHL teams.

Membership Changes

 * The Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars are added to the league after sitting out the 2017-18 season when the Avalon East Senior Hockey League was disolved. They would be dropped prior to the league beginning play.
 * The Clarenville Caribous would join the East Coast Senior Hockey League