OWHA Senior AAA Provincials

Congratulations to the North York Aeros on winning a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory over the Newtonbrook Panthers in the final game of the 1997 Senior AAA Provincials. Good luck to the Aeros who will now represent Ontario at the 1997 Canadoan National Championship in Richmond BC, from March 6th to 9th. Bring back the gold!

This page contains information concerning the the Ontario Women's Hockey Association Senior AAA Provincials. The Provincials will be hosted by Cobourg from February 7th to February 9th.

It was decided by the COWHL that the top 6 teams would move on to play in the provincials. Only the first two home games and the first two away games between each pair of teams count towards establishing the seeding for the Provincials. Thus a total of 24 games will have been played by each team, with the last one of these games having been played in Peterborough on the 1st of February. (There is actually one more game to be played, but it had to be recheduled due to a snow storm, and will be played on February 20th. The outcome of this game will not affect the seedings.) The complete list of games counting towards the Provincials can be found here.

1996-97 OWHA Senior AAA Provincial Seedings

                    Final Seeding Standings - 1997 02 01
Team                  GP  W L T PTS GF GA  GFA GAA  PIM Last8   Home Away   Strk
North York Aeros      24 18 1 5 41 171 26 7.12 1.08 311 7-0-1 10-0-2 8-1-3 21WT
Newtonbrook Panthers  24 17 1 6 40 135 37 5.62 1.54 242 7-0-1 10-0-2 7-1-4 13WT
Mississauga Chiefs    24 18 4 2 38 140 26 5.83 1.08 306 5-1-2 10-0-2 8-4-0  2W
Scarborough Sting     24 7 13 4 18 57  90 2.38 3.75 184 0-5-3  3-7-2 4-6-2  8LT
Peterborough Pirates  24 7 14 3 17 73  88 3.04 3.67 277 0-6-2  2-8-2 5-6-1  8LT
London Devilettes     24 6 16 2 14 57 135 2.37 5.62 212 3-4-1  2-9-1 4-7-1  3W
Hamilton Golden Hawks 24 0 24 0  0 23 254 0.95 10.6 235 0-8-0 0-12-0 0-12-0 24L

Provincial Schedule

The Provincials will be played out in two pools this year:

Pool A

First, third, and fifth place teams according to the seeding standings. The North York Aeros have now locked up first place, the Mississauga Chiefs will be seeded third, and the Peterorough Pirates willl be seeded fifth.

Pool B

Second, fourth, and sixth place teams according to the seeding standings. The Newtonbrook Panthers will be seeded second, the Scarborough Sting will be seeded fourth, and the London Devilettes will be seeded sixth.

Schedule

Here is the final schedule, with home teams listed second.

Friday, February 7th

    11am : North York 7 vs Peterborough 1
     1pm : Netwonbrook 7 vs London 2
     3pm : Peterborough 0 vs Mississauga 4
     5pm : London 0 vs Scarborough 4
     7pm : Mississauga 1 vs North York 6
     9pm : Scarborough 0 vs Netwonbrook 10

Saturday, February 8th

    10am : London 1 vs Mississuga 7
     2pm : Peterborough 1 vs Scarborough 2 (OT)
     7pm : Mississauga 3 vs Newtonbrook 4 (OT)
  9:30pm : Scarborough 0 vs North York 7

Sunday, February 9th

     1pm : Newtonbrook 1 vs North York 2 (OT)

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