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championships for the Maritime Junior "C" leagues and

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History

The championship was officially adopted by

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during a summer meeting in 2002. The first ever Maritime-North Championship was won by the Chebucto Canadians of

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in the Spring of 2003. Chebucto defeated the Dieppe/Memramcook Voyageurs of the New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League 4–3 in triple overtime to win the title. On April 14, 2012, the tenth anniversary of the tournament,

's Kivalliq Canucks defeated

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's Pownal Red Wings 3–1 to become the first

-based team in the tournament's history to make the final. Kivalliq would eventually lose the final 7–3 to

's Chester Clippers. The 2015 tournament in

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marked the first time in tournament history that neither team in the final represented New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. Baffin made the final by upsetting New Brunswick's Western Valley Panthers while PEI's

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beat Nova Scotia's Truro Rhinos to reach the championship game. This would mark only the second time a

team made the final and the first time ever a PEI team had made it. Baffin led 6-1 early in the second, only to have South Side battle back to within one goal. Baffin won the game 6–5 to win Nunavut's first Maritime-Hockey North junior hockey title.

2019 competition

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Results

''March 27'' :Kivalliq 1 vs. Tri-County 3 :Spryfield 3 vs. Western Valley 7 ''March 28'' :Tignish 0 vs. Tri-County 5 :Western Valley 1 vs. Kivalliq 2 :Tignish 6 vs. Spryfield 3 :Western Valley 8 vs. Tri-County 0 ''March 29'' :Kivalliq 5 vs. Tignish 4 (OT) :Tri-County 6 vs. Spryfield 1 :Western Valley 6 vs. Tignish 4 :Spryfield 4 vs. Kivalliq 6 ''March 30'' :''Semi-final:'' Tri-County 7 vs. Tignish 1 :''Semi-final:'' Kivalliq 1 vs. Western Valley 5 ''March 30'' :''Final:'' Tri-County 2 vs. Western Valley 1 (OT)

Competing leagues

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Champions

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References

External links

Maritime-Hockey North Junior Championship
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