2016-17 AESHL Season

This is the 2016-17 Avalon East Senior Hockey League season. This is the league's 50th season dating back to its founding in 1967.

Membership Changes[]

The Conception Bay North CeeBee Stars are renamed the Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars when they relocate to the new Danny Cleary Community Centre in Harbour Grace

Teams[]

Team	Centre	Arena
Bell Island Blues	Bell Island	Bell Island Arena & CBS Arena
Harbour Grace Cee Bee Stars	Harbour Grace	Danny Cleary Community Centre
Northeast Eagles	Torbay	Jack Byrne Arena
St. John's Capitals	St. John's	Goulds Sports Arena
Southern Shore Breakers	Witless Bay	Southern Shore Arena

Standings[]

Team	GP	W	L	OL	GF	GA	Pts
Harbour Grace CeeBee Stars	21	18	2	1	89	41	37
Northeast Eagles	23	12	8	3	83	75	27
Southern Shore Breakers	24	12	11	1	91	80	25
St. John's Capitals	23	9	11	3	73	79	21
Bell Island Blues	23	6	17	0	63	124	12

note: These are the final standings as several games in late January were cancelled were not be able to make it up as they would have no bearing on the final positions of the teams for the playoffs.

Playoffs[]

The top four teams qualify for the playoffs. Both rounds are best of seven.

Semifinals[]

Harbour Grace CeeBee Stars defeated St. John's 4 games to 1
Northeast Eagles defeated Southern Shore Breakers 4 games to 3

Final[]

Harbour Grace CeeBee Stars defeated Northeast Eagles 4 games to 2

The Harbour Grace CeeBee Stars advances to the 2017 Herder Memorial Trophy against the champion of the Central/West Senior Hockey League .