2008-09 MeJHL Season

This is the 2008-09 Metropolitan Junior Hockey League season.

The league added the development teams of several members of the Southeast Junior Hockey League, which continued to operate.

Membership Changes[]

The rights to the Bethlehem Blast were transferred to the Flemington, New Jersey based New Jersey Renegades.
The league added Team Carolina, East Coast Eagles, Hampton Roads Whalers, Charleston Wolverines, Atlanta Jr. Knights, Florida Eels, Palm Beach Predators, Jacksonville Ice Dogs, Space Coast Hurricanes, and Tampa Bay Bolts to form two southern divisions
The North Jersey Avalanche and Binghamton Jr. Senators were added to the league
The Connecticut Wolves and Connecticut Clippers merged to for the Hartford Jr. Wolfpack

Teams[]

Standings[]

Dowd Division[]

Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF GA   P
Central Penn Panthers     42 30 10   2 231 96  62
Valley Forge Minutemen    42 29 10   3 160 97  61
Washington Little Caps    42 24 13   5 157 136 53
Philadelphia Jr. Flyers   42 22 19   1 156 124 45
Philadelphia Little Flyers42 13 25   4 111 179 30
New Jersey Renegades      42  3 37   2 83  275  8

Frances/Jennings Division[]

Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF GA   P
Walpole Express           42 38  4  0 216 77  76
Northern Cyclones         42 26 14  2 165 136 54
Hartford Jr. Wolfpack     42 25 15  2 164 149 52
Portland Jr. Pirates      42 18 22  2 151 166 38
Binghamton Jr. Senators   42  9 33  0 115 226 18
Troy Eagles               42  7 31  4 122 254 18

Mullen Division[]

Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF GA   P
Suffolk PAL Juniors       43 37 5   1 292 140 75
New Jersey Jr. Titans     42 26 14  2 197 146 54
New Jersey Rockets        42 23 17  2 164 148 48
Long Island Royals        43 21 19  3 183 196 45
North Jersey Avalanche    42 21 20  1 173 187 43
New York Saints           42  7 34  1 123 131 15

Southern Division[]

Team                      GP  W  L OTL GF GA   P
Hampton Roads Jr. Whalers 34 28 6   0 198 92  56
Space Coast Hurricanes    34 27 6   1 190 87  55
Atlanta Jr. Knights       34 26 6   2 198 84  54
Jacksonville Ice Dogs     34 25 8   1 210 83  51
Charlotte Jr. Checkers    34 15 17  2 110 143 32
Florida Eels              34 13 18  3 151 188 29
Charleston Wolverines     34 14 18  1 102 151 29
Tampa Bay Bolts           34 12 21  1 120 185 25
Palm Beach Hawks          34 7  23  4 100 222 18
East Coast Eagles         34 3  29  2 90  234 8

Playoffs[]

The Northern and Southern teams held seperate qualifying playoffs for the league championship The three northern division winners and the southern playoff winner qualified for the league championship series.

Northern Divisions Semifinals[]

Walpole defeated Portland 2 games to 1
Hartford defeated Northern Cyclones 2 games to 1
Suffolk defeated Long Island 2 games to 1
New Jersey Jr. Titans defeated New Jersey Rockets
Central Penn defeated Philadelphia Jr. Flyers 2 games to none
Valley Forge defeated Washington Little Capitals 2 games to none

Northern Divisions Finals[]

Walpole defeated Hartford 2 games to none
Suffolk defeated New Jersey Jr. Titans 2 games to none
Central Penn defeated Valley Forge 2 games to 1

Southern Playoffs[]

Team Carolina and Florida Eels were eliminated in two round robin pools
Jacksonville defeated Atlanta and Hampton Roads defeated Space Coast in the semifinals
Jacksonville defeated Hampton Roads in the final

Championship Rounds[]

Jacksonville defeated Walpole and Central Penn defeated Suffolk in the semifinals
Central Penn defeated Jacksonville in the final