Central Ontario Women's Hockey League : 1996-97

This page contains information concerning the The Central Ontario Women's Hockey League (COWHL) - better known locally as the women's Senior AAA hockey league. It's the highest level of hockey for women in Ontario, and perhaps the world, as many current and former Team Canada, Team USA, Team Finland, Team Switzerland, and Team Netherlands members play in this league.

1997 All-Star Game

The 1997 All-Star Game between the Provincial Champions North York Aeros and the COWHL All-Stars will take place at 7:15pm on March 3rd at Icelands Arena, Mississauga. For more information, click on All-Star Game.

1996-97 All-Star Team

The 1996-97 All-Star Teams have now been selected. See All-Stars for the scoop!

1996-97 COWHL Statistics

                        Final League Standings - 1996/97
Team                 GP  W  L T PTS GF GA  GFA GAA  PIM Last8   Home Away   Strk
North York Aeros     36 29  1 6 64 255 39 7.08 1.08 423 7-0-1 15-0-3 14-1-3 33WT
Newtonbrook Panthers 36 25  3 8 58 210 58 5.83 1.61 418 6-1-1 14-1-3 11-2-5  7WT
Mississauga Chiefs   36 26  5 5 57 213 37 5.91 1.02 420 5-1-2 14-1-3 12-4-2  5WT
Scarborough Sting    36 12 19 5 29 84 129 2.33 3.58 268 3-4-1 6-10-2 6-9-3   2LT
Peterborough Pirates 36 11 21 4 26 99 127 2.75 3.52 423 3-4-1 4-11-3 7-10-1  1W
London Devilettes    36  7 27 2 16 81 204 2.25 5.66 296 1-7-0 3-14-1 4-13-1  3L
Hamilton Golden Hawks 36 1 35 0  2 37 385 1.02 10.7 327 1-7-0 1-17-0 0-18-0  2L

The following information is available for the COWHL's current season:

• League Standings - team statistics and top 20 individual scoring statistics.
• Games Played - scores for each regular season game.
• Game Summaries - scorers for each regular season game.
• Individual Player Statistics - statistics for each player.
• Goalie Standings - statistics for each goalie.
• Provincials - seeds and schedule for Ontario provincial championship.
• League Schedule - complete COWHL schedule with arena locations.
• Individual Highlights - shutouts and multiple goal games.
• League Awards - given out at the annual COWHL banquet.
• Monthly Summaries:
  • September
  • October only
  • Up to the end of October
  • November only
  • Up to the end of November
  • December only
  • Up to the end of December
  • January only
  • Up to the end of January
  • February only
  • Up to the end of February
  • March only
  • Up to the end of March

Here are the teams in the league for the 1996-97 season (follow each link for information on each team).

Hamilton Golden Hawks

London Devilettes

Mississauga Chiefs

Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Home Page)

North York Aeros

Peterborough Pirates

Scarborough Sting

COWHL Statistics Archives

Here are the stats for 4 of the past 5 years. Unfortunately I have no information available yet on the 1994-95 season.

• 1996-97 (this page)
• 1995-96
• 1994-95
• 1993-94
• 1992-93

National Team Players

Here are some links for some of the players who play in this league, courtesy of Andria Hunter's excellent page on Women Hockey Player Profiles. If you click on a player in this list, you will go to the position of that player in Andria's file.... In addition, three of the players have pointers to their respective entry in the University of Toronto Varsity Blues Profile page.

• Mirjam Baechler, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Switzerland 1992-1997)
• Amanda Benoit, North York Aeros (Team Canada 1996)
• Cassie Campbell, North York Aeros (Team Canada 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
• Lori Dupuis, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1995, 1996, 1997)
  (Varsity Blues Profile for Lori)
• Kelly Dyer, North York Aeros (Team USA 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995)
• Marianne Grnak, North York Aeros (Team Canada 1994, 1995, 1996)
• Geraldine Heaney, North York Aeros (Team Canada 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997)
• Jayna Hefford, Mississauga Chiefs (Team Canada 1997)
• Andria Hunter, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1992, 1994)
  (Varsity Blues Profile for Andria)
• Angela James, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997)
• Sari Krooks, North York Aeros (Team Finland 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996)
• Sue Merz, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team USA 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
• Karen Nystrom, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997)
• Margot Page, Mississauge Chiefs (Team Canada 1990, 1992, 1994)
• Marion Pepels, London Devilettes (Team Netherlands 1990-1996)
• Cheryl Pounder, North York Aeros (Team Canada 1994, 1996)
• Nathalie Rivard, Mississauga Chiefs (Team Canada 1992)
• Laura Schuler, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997)
  (Varsity Blues Profile for Laura)
• Jeanine Sobek, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team USA 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996)
• Vicky Sunohara, Newtonbrook Panthers (Team Canada 1990, 1996, 1997)

For more pictures of national team members, visit TeePee's World Women's Hockey Championships photo album.

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