OJHL regular season champions open postseason at home on Friday
March 4, 2025, Mississauga, ON – The Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) announced today that the Trenton Golden Hawks are the 2024-25 recipients of the Brant Snow Memorial Trophy. The award has been presented annually to the regular season champions of the 24-team OJHL since 2018. The OJHL season ended Sunday.
The Golden Hawks (47-6-2-1) finished the regular season with 97 points, three more than the next closest team, the West Conference regular season leaders, the Leamington Flyers (45-7-3-1).
The Golden Hawks, the second-ranked team in the Canadian Junior Hockey League this week, will have home-ice advantage throughout the 2025 playoffs. The OJHL postseason begins on all eight fronts this weekend. The Golden Hawks open their best-of-seven series with the eighth-seeded Pickering Panthers at home Friday night.
The other seven series include:
EAST
Toronto Jr. Canadiens (2) vs Cobourg Cougars (7)
Haliburton County Huskies (3) vs St. Michael’s Buzzers (6)
Stouffville Spirit (4) vs Wellington Dukes (5)
WEST
Leamington Flyers (1) vs Niagara Falls Canucks (8)
Collingwood Blues (2) vs King Rebellion (7)
Milton Menace (3) vs Burlington Cougars (6)
Buffalo Jr. Sabres (4) vs Toronto Patriots (5)
For OJHL playoff updates go to:
https://www.ojhl.ca/stats/playoffs/22
The winner of the OJHL’s 2024 Championship Series advances directly to the Centennial Cup national championships in Calgary May 8-18.
“On behalf of our entire league I would like to congratulate the Trenton Golden Hawks on an outstanding regular season and capturing the Brant Snow Memorial Trophy as the 2024-25 OJHL regular season champions,” said OJHL Commissioner Marty Savoy. “The OJHL is proud to honour the legacy of Brant Snow each season with the celebration of our top team in the regular season.”
Mr. Snow, the long-time governor and president of North York’s OJHL franchise, passed away eight years ago. Mr. Snow also spent half a century as the driving force behind the Goulding Park Hockey Association. In a motion of condolence, the City of Toronto called him, “an extraordinary Willowdale resident who set the standard for sports volunteers across the city.”
About the OJHL – “League of Choice”
The Ontario Junior Hockey League is the largest Junior ‘A’ league operating under the auspices of the Canadian Junior Hockey League with 24 member clubs. The OJHL is the home of the 2024 Centennial Cup champion Collingwood Blues. A proud member of the CJHL and Ontario Hockey Association, the OJHL was originally named the Ontario Provincial Junior ‘A’ Hockey League and it was formed out of the Central Junior ‘B’ Hockey League in 1993-94. With a long and storied history of developing players for the next level, including U SPORTS, the NCAA, CHL, minor pro ranks and the NHL, the OJHL has had more than 90 CHL, NCAA and U SPORTS commitments already this season.
For more information on the Ontario Junior Hockey League, please visit www.ojhl.ca
