The New Brunswick Junior C Hockey League was a Junior
ice hockey
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league in
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, Canada, sanctioned by
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. The winner of the playoffs competed in the
Maritime-Hockey North Junior C Championships
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History
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.
History
Dating back to the late 1960s, the NBJHL was an elite
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league. The league would operate for almost 15 years before ultimately folding in 1983. With this, its successor, the NBJBHL, would replace the NBJHL and operate until 2003.
Left with a void of no formal junior hockey league within the province, the NBJHL was formed in 2003. This would become the primary Jr. league in New Brunswick, a Jr. C league.
While operating exclusively as a Junior C league, starting in 2007, the League was allowed to send its top team to the
Don Johnson Cup
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as a Jr. B representative. In 2009, the league failed to send their champion. In the same year, a group of teams fled the NBJHL to form their own Jr. B league, the
New Brunswick Junior B Hockey League
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, leaving the NBJHL with 6 teams and as a Jr. C League.
In the Summer of 2011, all but Hampton folded. With this, the league ceased operations, and the Hurricanes moved up to Junior B thus ending the tenure of the NBJHL.
The teams
Champions
:2011 Kent Centre Jr. Bears
:2010 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators
:2009 Hampton Hurricanes
:2008 ''Jr. B'' Dieppe-Memramcook Voyageurs - ''Jr. C'' Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators
:2007 Dieppe-Memramcook Voyageurs
:2006 Shediac/Cap-Pele Predators
:2005 Kent-Sud Flames
:2004 Dieppe-Memramcook Avalanche
See also
*
List of ice hockey teams in New Brunswick
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External links
New Brunswick Jr. "C" Website
Ice hockey leagues in New Brunswick
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