SUPERIOR INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
SIJHL MEDIA UPDATE
Release Date: Friday, Feb. 20, 2015
Lakers clinch SIJHL regular season crown
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – With their 8-3 victory over the English River Miners Friday evening the Fort Frances Lakers clinched their second consecutive Superior International Junior Hockey League regular season title.
Fort Frances now boasts a 36-9-0-1 overall record with the club still having 10 games remaining in the 2014-15 regular season campaign, but no other teams in the league can match or surpass the club’s 73 points they have accumulated to date.
Their on-ice efforts also guarantees the Lakers will be the No. 1 seed and have home ice advantage in the upcoming SIJHL playoffs.
Fort Frances will also serve as the host team for the 2015 Dudley-Hewitt Cup Central Canada Jr. A Championship April 28 through May 2 at Ice for Kids Arena.
This also marks the fourth time in the 14-year history of the SIJHL that a Fort Frances-based squad has captured the league’s regular season crown.
The Lakers were also first overall in 2013-14 while the Borderland Thunder finished in top spot in league play in the initial two years of the league back in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
Listed below is the all-time group of SIJHL regular season title holders:
| SIJHL Regular Season Winners (By Season) |
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| SEASON | TEAM | GP | W | L | T/OT/SOL | PTS | WIN % |
| 2014-15 | Fort Frances Lakers * | 46 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 73 | .793 |
| 2013-14 | Fort Frances Lakers | 56 | 46 | 6 | 2 | 96 | .857 |
| 2012-13 | Minnesota Wilderness | 56 | 51 | 3 | 2 | 104 | .929 |
| 2011-12 | Wisconsin Wilderness | 56 | 46 | 6 | 4 | 96 | .857 |
| 2010-11 | Wisconsin Wilderness | 56 | 45 | 6 | 5 | 95 | .848 |
| 2009-10 | Fort William North Stars | 52 | 45 | 5 | 2 | 92 | .885 |
| 2008-09 | Fort William North Stars | 50 | 39 | 7 | 4 | 82 | .820 |
| 2007-08 | Dryden Ice Dogs | 50 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 75 | .750 |
| 2006-07 | Fort William North Stars | 50 | 41 | 6 | 3 | 85 | .850 |
| 2005-06 | Fort William North Stars | 52 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 100 | .962 |
| 2004-05 | Fort William North Stars | 48 | 42 | 2 | 4 | 88 | .917 |
| 2003-04 | Fort William North Stars | 48 | 40 | 6 | 2 | 82 | .854 |
| 2002-03 | Borderland Thunder | 52 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 73 | .702 |
| 2001-02 | Borderland Thunder | 48 | 28 | 11 | 9 | 65 | .677 |
| * – Lakers’ record as of Feb. 20, 2015 (With 10 regular season games remaining) | |||||||