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Local junior loop increases in size

By: Cassidy Dankochik Posted: 12:00 PM CDT Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025

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The Hanover-Tache Junior Hockey League is bigger this year, and in more ways than one.

The league has expanded once again this season, adding Warren to make an 11-team league. This is the third consecutive year the HTJHL has added teams.

With 11 teams, the league has scrapped the division format, going back to one big group of standings. Teams will play a 30-game schedule, an increase of six games compared to last year. Each franchise will play each opponent three times throughout a season.

Keagan Lanouette nabbed two goals and an assist in Ste Anne's season opening win over Landmark in the HTJHL. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

A new standings means a new playoff format. Every team will play some form of post-season, with teams finishing between sixth and 11th playing in a best-of-three play-in round. The quarterfinals will be a best-of-five, with the semi-finals and finals best-of-seven series, completed before March 31.

The season kicked off this weekend, with the final regular season game of the season scheduled for Feb. 8.

Ste Anne's Kash Pachal battles for the puck during the opening weekend of the HTJHL at the Maurice Chaput Arena Oct. 4. The Aces defeated Landmark 8-3. (Cassidy Dankochik The Carillon)

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