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January 21, 2020 - Provincial Senior Championships Revamped
At the Hockey Manitoba meetings this past weekend, the format of the Senior Provincials was discussed and changed as follows:
- The champions from the SEMHL and Carillon Senior Hockey League will play a best of three series with the winner moving on to the Provincial Final versus the winner of the Tiger Hills/North Central Hockey League three game series.
- For the best of three series, the SEMHL and Tiger Hills League will have the extra game advantage for this year, rotating to the Carillon and North Central next season.
- The Provincial Final will be held at the MTS IcePlex on Saturday April 4th, 2020.
January 18, 2020 - Update
Due to dangerous highway conditions throughout southern Manitoba, all of tonight's SEMHL games are canceled and will be rescheduled.
January 3, 2020 - Playoff Push Starts Tonight
With the Christmas break over and teams hopefully rested and healed, the SEMHL season continues tonight as Carman travels to Winkler.
The schedule will be busiest for Altona in this final month as they have nine games still to play. Notre Dame and Morden have a more relaxed schedule with only six games remaining. Every game will be important as teams jockey for playoff positions and look to finish somewhere in the top three, giving them a few days off while the survivor series games are played.
Make sure to come on out and support your team!
December 20, 2019 - 2020 Playoff Format
As was discussed and decided at the September league meetings, the playoff format for this season is as follows:
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Teams that finish 1st through 3rd get first round byes.
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Teams that finish 4th through 7th would play a survivor series whereby 4th plays 7th and 5th plays 6th in a single game knockout where the winners would play each other in a best of three series to move on.
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The semi-finals would be best of seven with the 1st place team playing the survivor series winner and the 2nd and 3rd place teams playing each other.
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The league finals would be best of seven.
December 20, 2019 - Rescheduled Game
The December 7th game between Winkler and Warren has been rescheduled for Tuesday, January 14th in Warren at 8 pm.
December 7, 2019 - Game Cancelled
Due to road conditions, tonight's game between Winkler and Warren has been postponed to a future date.
November 12, 2019 - Rescheduled Game
The October 26th game between Notre Dame and Carman that was postponed has now been rescheduled for January 23rd in Carman.
November 12, 2019 - Winkler Awarded Win
Due to Morden using an ineligible player in the Monday, November 11th game versus Winkler, Winkler is awarded the win. All of the player statistics will stand as reported on the gamesheet.
November 11, 2019 - Remembrance Day - We Remember
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The South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League expresses its heartfelt gratitude to all Veterans, past and present, for their selfless sacrifice to ensure our freedom. #WeRemember |
October 25, 2019 - Game Postponed
Please note that the Notre Dame Hawks and Carman Beavers game scheduled for Saturday, October 26th in Carman has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.
October 22, 2019 - 69th SEMHL Season Kicks Off
The opening weekend of the 69th SEMHL season is in the books as both visiting teams came out with victories, Carman in OT in Warren and Notre Dame convincingly in Winkler.
October 8, 2019 - And here we go...
The schedule has been set and the SEMHL is ready to kick off another season! It's only 11 days away as Warren hosts Carman on October 19th while the following night on the 20th, Winkler will play host to Notre Dame.
Make sure to come on out and support your team!
September 24, 2019 - 2019-20 SEMHL Season
With only a month until the start of the SEMHL season, teams are busy booking their ice times and filling their rosters. Stay tuned for the release of the 2019-20 SEMHL Schedule!
July 17, 2019 - Wayne Deschouwer Way - Street unveiling in Charleswood
The City of Winnipeg's official ceremony unveiling "Honorary Wayne Deschouwer Way" will be held next Wednesday July 24th at 2:30 pm at the corner of Oakdale Drive and Coy Avenue.
We all know what Wayne meant to our league and Senior leagues in Southern Manitoba and that it is only fitting that he make you all travel out to Charleswood one more time than you have to in a year..... We all know that he would have liked that.
Please feel free to extend this invitation out to anyone that you feel would want to a part of this ceremony as we know that Wayne would love to see as many old friends in attendance as possible.
We look forward to seeing you there!
May 20, 2019 - SEMHL Executive Returns For Another Season
At the league AGM on April 29th in Carman, league members voted to keep the current executive in place for the 2019-20 season. Congrats to league commissioner Tom Vatrt, Referee-in-Chief Brent Smart, and Statistician Ken Steen and thanks for stepping into those positions during a tough time for the SEMHL. Looking forward to 2019-2020! Only five more months.
April 29, 2019 - SEMHL Annual General Meeting
Another year has officially concluded in the SEMHL with the Annual General Meeting held last night in Carman.
A rule change that fans can look forward to is the change from a 4 on 4 overtime period in the regular season to a 3 on 3.
It was also agreed on to revisit the possibility of creating a balanced schedule by going to a 18 game schedule (3 games against each team) and a revised playoff format. These will be decided and voted on at the September Semi-Annual Meeting.
An updated Constitution will be available in the coming weeks.