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This is the 2001-02 Empire Junior B Hockey League season.

Membership Changes[]

  • The league added the Bucks-Mont Bandits (Bucks County-Montgomery County PA), Elmira Jackals, Johnstown Chiefs (added a team made up of players from lower level junior teams in the organization), and Mechanicsburgh, PA based Metro Falcons

Standings[]

Team                      GP  W  L T  GF  GA  PIM  P
Wheatfield Blades         36 34  1 1 285  75  889 69
Rochester Jr. B Americans 36 25 10 1 226 126 1278 51
Binghamton Tornadoes      36 24 10 2 205 116 1164 50
Johnstown Chiefs          36 23 11 2 193 115  756 48
Mass Maple Leafs          36 22 14 0 192 158  867 44
Pittsburgh Jr. Penguins   36 20 14 2 204 126  968 42
Syracuse Stars            36 15 21 0 179 166 1043 30
Elmira Jackalls           36  6 29 1 142 238  851 13
Bucks-Mont Bandits        36  6 29 1 127 230 1073 13
Metro Falcons             36  0 36 0  58 461  731  0

Post Season[]

Held at Elmira College in Elmira, New York.  If the regular season champion did not win the championship a best-of-three series would be held between the playoff and regular season champions at the regular season champion's rink for a beth in Nationals being held in Blaine, Minnesota. Since Wheatfield won both this was not done.

First Round[]

  • Syracuse defeated Metro 18-1
  • Elmira defeated Bucks-Mont 8-4

Quarterfinals[]

  • Wheatfield defeated Elmira 12-0
  • Syracuse defeated Rochester 2-1 (ot)
  • Binghamton defeated Pittsburgh 4-3
  • Mass defeated Johnstown 7-6 (ot)

Semifinals[]

  • Wheatfield defeated Syracuse 8-1
  • Mass defeated Binghamton 6-1

Final[]

  • Wheatfield defeated Mass 2 games to 1 (3-4, 12-2, 6-1)
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