The Heritage Junior Hockey League will have a new look to it this season.
With the removal of the Rimbey Rock for the 2011-12 season, the Junior B league has decided to adapt a two-division system with seven teams in each.
The new divisions will be named North and South, while the Central Division – which had both the Cochrane Generals and the Airdrie Thunder – will be eliminated. Cochrane will now be in the South Division and Airdrie will be in the North Division – splitting up the two main rivals.
Teams will play an interlocking 38-game schedule, consisting of four games with divisional rivals and a home-and-home set with teams in the other division.
The South Division will consist of the Generals, the Okotoks Bisons, the High River Flyers, the Coaldale Copperheads, the Strathmore Wheatland Kings, the Medicine Hat Cubs and the Banff Bears.
The North Division will include the Thunder, the Mountainview Colts, the Three Hills Thrasher, the Blackfalds Wranglers, the Red Deer Vipers, the Stettler Lightning and the Ponoka Stampeders.
The full 2011-12 HJHL schedule has yet to be released.
