The Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) declared on Thursday it has dropped the leftover games between the five “abandoning groups” and the excess 11 groups in the league.
That implies the five groups who reported last end of the week they’re leaving for the English Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) for the 2024-25 season will never again play against the other groups in the AJHL.
Those five groups incorporate the Blackfalds Bulldogs, Creeks Desperados, Okotoks Oilers, Tidy Forest Holy people, and the Sherwood Park Crusaders.
We keep on assessing the best way ahead subsequent to checking on Saturday’s BCHL declaration that five of our groups have chosen, in the momentum season, to pass on the AJHL to play unsanctioned hockey starting in the 2024-25 season,” the AJHL said in a proclamation.
They likewise suggested that the AJHL end of the season games might be in danger.
We are answering by doing whatever it takes to safeguard the cutthroat trustworthiness of the AJHL and CJHL season finisher framework and to guarantee the security of our players and authorities.
Games recently booked among these 11 groups will go on as planned. Keeping in mind the players in the five abandoning groups, we will permit planned games among these clubs to continue.
The Bulldogs are booked to just play three more normal season games. They’re booked to play against the Streams Crooks on Saturday, Jan. 27 in Blackfalds followed by games in Sherwood Park on Feb. 13 and Streams on Walk 2.
Dark Press Media connected with Bulldogs proprietor Doug Quinn however made sense of he had no remark right now.
The AJHL went on by saying they keep on working with their accomplices at the Canadian Junior Hockey League, Hockey Alberta, and Hockey Canada to track down an answer for the circumstance “made by the five surrendering groups and the BCHL.
They will give further updates as choices keep on being made by the AJHL.
The AJHL’s expressed vision is to establish a climate that moves trust and certainty among our associations, competitors, fans, accomplices, and partners,” the AJHL added.
We keep on being the head formative league in Canada for understudy competitors endeavoring to exploit their athletic and scholarly capacities.
We are disheartened by the new declaration however anticipate giving our fans seriously astonishing AJHL hockey in the long stretches of time to come.