The Quebec Main Junior Hockey League is altering its title to higher signify its sizeable contingent of Maritime-based groups.
The league introduced Thursday it will likely be referred to as the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (la Ligue de hockey junior Maritimes Quebec in French).
An English model of the league’s emblem was additionally launched.
The title change was handed unanimously on the league’s meeting of members.
League commissioner Mario Cecchini stated together with the Maritimes within the league title has been a precedence of his since taking on the place in Might.
The QMJHL has had a presence within the Maritimes for nearly 30 years. The Halifax Mooseheads joined as an growth workforce in 1994.
By 1999 the league additionally had groups in Moncton, N.B. (Alpines, later Wildcats), Sydney, N.S. (Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, later Eagles), and Bathurst, N.B. (Titan).
The Montreal Rocket moved to Charlottetown in 2003 (now the Islanders) and the league expanded to Saint John, N.B., in 2004 with the addition of the Sea Canines.
Since increasing to Halifax, Maritime groups have received the President’s Cup (now Gilles-Courteau Trophy) as league champion eight occasions, together with 4 in a row from 2009-10 to 2012-13.