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The 2024–25 AJHL season is the 61st season of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL).Competition will begin on 24 August 2024 with a 35-game exhibition season, followed by a 54-game regular season schedule which will run from 13 September 2024 to 15 March 2025.
The Wranglers also captured the Alberta provincial title. The Wranglers chose not to participate in the Keystone Cup tournament due to scheduling conflicts. During the 2011 HJHL finals Okotoks Bisons won the best-of-three series versus Blackfalds Wrangers 2–1, their eighth league title. Both teams advanced to the Junior B Provincials in Leduc.
The Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) is an Alberta-based Junior A ice hockey league that belongs to the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL). It was formed as a five-team league in 1964. The 2023–24 season began with 16 teams, however 5 teams did not finish the season after it was announced that they planned to join the BCHL in the 2024 ...
The Devon Xtreme are a junior "A" ice hockey expansion franchise expected to debut in the North Division of the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) in the 2024–25 season. The team will play its home games in the Dale Fisher Arena, which was under construction at the time of announcement and scheduled to open in June 2024.
The season began with 16 teams distributed between 2 divisions of 8 teams each. On January 20, 2024, the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) announced that the Blackfalds Bulldogs, Brooks Bandits, Okotoks Oilers, Sherwood Park Crusaders, and Spruce Grove Saints would move from the AJHL to the BCHL in the 2024-25 season. [2]
The league was established in 1972 as the Edmonton Metropolitan Junior Hockey League. League playoff winners face off against the winners of the other Alberta "B" leagues in the Alberta Provincial Junior B Hockey Championship. The Provincial winner earns the chance to compete for the Western Canadian Junior "B" Crown, the Keystone Cup.
Heritage Junior B Hockey League: Southern Alberta: 1987: 3: 1: 15 teams North Eastern Alberta Junior B Hockey League: Northeast Alberta: Unknown: 5: 2: 9 teams Northwest Junior Hockey League: Peace River Country: 1995: 1: 0: 7 teams (5 in Alberta)
The two largest leagues (Capital Junior Hockey League, Heritage Junior B Hockey League) send two teams each, the remaining three send one, while the host team is guaranteed a berth. Starting with the 2023 championships the format was revised such that only the league playoff champion is to advance plus the host city team.