It was an honour to read your work from the beginning, and I have enjoyed every season you have created. I wish you the best.

R.I.P. MAHL

1983-84 Season
The Charlottetown Greens made their debut on October 19, 1983, against the Cape Breton Warriors. The Greens won 5-2 in front of a sold-out Charlottetown Arena, and rookie forward Bill Robby scored the team’s first goal in team history. He would score two more goals in that game for a hat trick. Bill would have a hot streak for the next three months until he got a season-ending injury, which the Greens went on to finish 14th.

Tension was rising between the Shawinigan Voltages owner Pierre Leflar and the city of Shawinigan as neither could come up with the funds for a new arena. To make things worse, AQHL President Paul Name had multiple talks with Pierre about his gambling problems. What even more issues between the two were Pierre Leflar decided to let go of GM Mitchell Lalime and trade away some top players for mostly cash as the team was once a favourite to go to the top of the league but hit rock bottom sort of, they won enough games to finished 13th place. In an interview, Paul said if things don’t resolve soon, he and the league would get involved, take the ownership away from Pierre, and put the team up for sale to keep them in Shawinigan or relocate elsewhere.

After losing their top goalie, Seth Taylor, to the Washington Red Tails (NIHA), the Moncton Bears rely on Shawn Metcalfe as their starter goalie in his second season; he performed very well, winning 30 of 40 games he played 10 of them were shutouts to give the Bears a first-place finish for the second season in a row with a 42-6-2 record with the total of 86 points. After missing the playoffs for three years, the Trois-Rivieres Titans are finally back in Bronz Cup contender mode, all thanks to the Minnesota Nationals (NIHA) for sending Keith Rice back to the Titans and helping them to a second-place finish, winning 20 out of 30 games with 13 shutouts. For the first time in the team’s

1983-84 OMJHA Season
With the Legionnaires gone, the league downsized from 15 teams to 14, as the league was hoping to expand from two to three divisions, but that didn’t happen. Midway into the season, Lakers owner Tim O’Connor announced that the team would fold after the 83-84 season as the deal for a relocation to Belleville fell through as the Ottawa Guardians (NIHA) kept their minor pro team in Belleville long term, for the OMJHA it’s the third year in a row that a team folded after the season ended.

Another team will be gone after this season, but in a relocation way. Harold MacFarland officially sold his team to Leon Littlestone, the owner of Canpress Trucking, a shipping company that delivers goods across Canada and North America. Leon will have the team play in a 1900-seat Newmarket Memorial Forum in Newmarket, Ontario. Leon will announce the team’s new name during the 1984 off-season.

Once again, the Oakville Oaks took first place in the Hero division. With the right players put together and getting the right wins, the Oaks are again ready to make a deep playoff run this time. Taking second place is the Toronto Hornets, which surprised many critics as they predicted them to be 4th place, but they were wrong. The Barrie Admirals take third place after a big last ten games of the season (8-0-2), mainly after rough mid-season issues where two of their top players got called up to the pros. After a rough first 25 games and even news of them being relocated after this season, the Milton Micmacs came back to win many critical games and even beat the Brantford Skyflyers at the last game of the season to take the fourth-place spot. Rounding out the rest from fifth to seventh are Brantford, Oshawa, and Kitchener.

Led by many veterans from the beginning, the Toronto Neon takes the Steel Division in a big way with a 78-point performance (38-10-2) and skyrocket

1984 WCLH Playoffs

Round One
The playoffs are set the first place East Saskatoon Cats takes on fourth place West Medicine Hat Hawks, the second place East Fargo Owls takes on third place West Billings Trains, first place West Abbotsford Forest Kings face-off against fourth place East Swift Current Battalion, and lastly the second place West Lethbridge Cougars battles with third place East Portage la Prairie Magic.

1st East Saskatoon Cats vs. 4th West Medicine Hat Hawks
The Saskatoon Cats wasted no time taking down the Hawks by sweeping them in four games. The Hawks did poorly in the first two games in Saskatoon with two blowout losses (8-0 and 6-0), but they did score some goals in games three and four; it was not enough to win as the Cats won those last two games (5-1, 7-2) to move on to the second round thanks to Fred Adams who made 8 goals, 14 points within those four games. The Cats wins the series 4-0 

2nd East Fargo Owls vs. 3rd West Billings Trains
The Billings Trains went from losing the Jade Trophy finals a season ago to being swept in the first round by the Fargo Owls. The main reasons for the Trains' downfall are that Glen Sasakamoose got called up to the minors, Drew Eastwood got called up by the Saskatchewan Royals, and both David Lemay and Frank Colton are in IR. The Fargo Owls took advantage of this and won all four games. The Owls won the series 4-0.

1st West Abbotsford Forest Kings vs. 4th East Swift Current Battalion
Early in the season, the Battalion swept the Forest Kings in season series; in this playoff series, that role switched as the Forest Kings took them down; what really made this series was Eric Wilcox scored a hat-trick in game one and mocked the Forest Kings bench which wa

My top 3 favourite sets per division

Willard
1. Portarra Whales
2. Quebel Crusaders
3. Sina Serpents

Hatch
1. Dosa City Snappers
2. Prestonburg Blazers
3. Alko Barbarians

Elam
1. Narva Neptunes
2. Waterdee Dragons
3. Chasonne Heralds

Rankin
1. Kavalos Electrics
2. Kurohara Killers
3. Aberieden Bucks