2014-15 MWJHL Season

This is the 2014-15 Midwest Junior Hockey League season. This was the league's third and final season. The league was a member of the Amateur Athletic Union's United Hockey Union for all 3 of the league's 3 seasons. The league annouced on March 12, 2015 that it and all member teams were becoming part of the United States Premier Hockey League's Midwestern Division.

Membership changes[]

The Bloomington Jr. Blaze moved to Decatur and were renamed the Decatur Blaze
The league added the Alpena Flyers, the Fraser, Michigan based MC Monarchs (which was originaly scheduled to be based in Mount Clemens, Michigan) and the Walker based West Michigan Freeze (which was originally supposed to be an expansion team for the 2013-14 season).
The West Michigan Freeze suspended operations on August 20, 2014
The Berkley Bruins ceased operations on November 17, 2014 (and all of their scheduled games after were counted as 1-0 forfeit losses)
The league annouced that it would become part of the United States Premier Hockey League on March 10th and that this would be the league's last season.

Standings[]

Team                   GP  W  L OTL SOL  GF  GA PIM   P
Traverse City Hounds   46 40  3  1   2  251  93  908 83
Motor City Monarchs    46 33 13  0   0  221 147  919 66
Decatur Blaze          46 29 14  2   1  149 136  768 61
Detroit Fighting Irish 46 27 15  2   2  182 177 1067 58
Alpena Flyers          46 18 22  3   3  172 203  847 42
Soo Firehawks          46 17 24  1   4  118 182  872 39
Michigan Ice Dogs      46 15 28  0   3  123 199  892 33
Berkley Bruins         46  5 41  0   0   50 129  535 10

note: the Berkley Bruins ceased operations on November 17, 2014 and
 all of their games after this date were counted at 1-0 forfeit loses

2015 MWJHL Veteran's Memorial Cup Playoffs[]

Format[]

All seven teams qualify, all series are best-of-three with all games at higher seeded team's rink, teams are re-seeded after each round

Quarterfinals[]

Traverse City gets a bye
Motor City deated Michigan 2 games to none (5-3 , 6-3)
Soo defeated Decatur 2 games to none (5-1, 5-3)
Detroit defeated Alpena 2 games to none (4-1, 3-0)

Semifinals[]

Traverse City defeated Soo 2 games to none (6-0, 3-1)
Motor City defeated Detroit 2 games to 1 (5-4, 3-6, 4-1)

Final[]

Traverse City defeated Motor City 2 games to none (7-3, 4-2)