2008–09 SIJHL season

2008–09 SIJHL season

League Superior International Junior Hockey League
Duration Regular season
2008-09-19 – 2009-03-09
Playoffs
2009-03-13 – 2009-04-12
Champions Fort William North Stars
Number of teams 6
Commissioner Ron Whitehead
SIJHL seasons

 2007–08

2009–10 

The 2008–09 SIJHL season is the 8th season of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL). The six teams of the SIJHL will play 50-game schedules.

Come February, the top teams of the league will play down for the Bill Salonen Cup, the SIJHL championship. The winner of the Bill Salonen Cup will compete in the Central Canadian Junior "A" championship, the Dudley Hewitt Cup. If successful against the winners of the Ontario Junior Hockey League and Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, the champion would then move on to play in the Canadian Junior Hockey League championship, the 2009 Royal Bank Cup.

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Changes

Final Standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title

Team Centre W-L-T-OTL GF GA Points
Fort William North Stars Thunder Bay 39-7-0-4 307 129 82
Thunder Bay Bearcats Thunder Bay 33-11-0-6 221 142 72
Fort Frances Jr. Sabres Fort Frances 30-17-0-3 199 139 63
Schreiber Diesels Schreiber 26-21-0-3 213 220 55
Dryden Ice Dogs Dryden 20-25-0-5 170 210 45
Sioux Lookout Flyers Sioux Lookout 2-46-0-2 97 367 6

Teams listed on the official league website.[1]

Standings listed on official league website.[2]

2008-09 Bill Salonen Cup Playoffs

  Quarter-final Semi-final Salonen Cup
                           
   
  1  Fort William 4  
    4  Schreiber 3  
4  Schreiber 3
  5  Dryden 0  
    1  Fort William 4
  2  Thunder Bay 1
     
   
2  Thunder Bay 4
    3  Fort Frances 1  
3  Fort Frances 3
  6  Sioux Lookout 0  

Playoff results are listed on the official league website.[3]

Dudley Hewitt Cup Championship

Hosted by the Schreiber Diesels in Schreiber, Ontario. Fort William finished in second place and Schreiber finished in third.

Round Robin

Fort William North Stars 2 - Soo Thunderbirds (NOJHL) 0
Kingston Voyageurs (OJHL) 9 - Schreiber Diesels 0
Fort William North Stars 1 - Kingston Voyageurs (OJHL) 0
Schreiber Diesels 2 - Soo Thunderbirds (NOJHL) 0
Schreiber Diesels 5 - Fort William North Stars 2

Semi-final

Fort William North Stars 4 - Schreiber Diesels 3

Final

Kingston Voyageurs (OJHL) 4 - Fort William North Stars 1

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes

Player Team GP G A Pts PIM
Trevor Gamache Fort William North Stars 49 41 62 103 155
Joel Langevin Fort William North Stars 49 31 44 75 28
Chris Sinclair Fort Frances Jr. Sabres 49 18 54 72 75
Brendan Baumgartner Fort Frances Jr. Sabres 49 35 35 70 84
Ryan Magill Fort William North Stars 46 26 41 67 51
Cayle Brown Fort William North Stars 48 27 37 64 89
Jared Saunders Schreiber Diesels 48 31 31 62 91
Jeff Manryk Thunder Bay Bearcats 44 28 34 62 117
Mitch Cain Fort Frances Jr. Sabres 48 26 36 62 62
Tyler Miller Thunder Bay Bearcats 27 24 37 61 57

Leading goaltenders

Note: GP = Games Played; Mins = Minutes Played; W = Wins; L = Losses: OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GA = Goals Allowed; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average

Player Team GP Mins W L OTL SOL GA SO Sv% GAA
Ryan Faragher Fort Frances Jr. Sabres 40 2265:41 24 14 0 1 92 5 0.921 2.44
Drew Strandberg Thunder Bay Bearcats 34 1912:48 20 6 1 5 83 2 0.918 2.60
Jay Pelletier Fort William North Stars 25 1122:10 14 2 0 2 36 2 0.917 1.92
Patrick Sullivan Fort William North Stars 32 1729:01 23 5 1 0 76 3 0.901 2.64
Josh Baker Schreiber Diesels 41 2309:01 19 17 2 1 155 1 0.893 4.03

Awards

and Mitch Cain (Fort Frances Jr. Sabres)

See also

References

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Preceded by
2007–08 SIJHL season
SIJHL seasons Succeeded by
2009–10 SIJHL season