Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League

The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (French: la Ligue de hockey junior Maritimes Québec, shortened as QMJHL in English, LHJMQ in French) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which make up the Canadian Hockey League. Because the name of the league is so long, it is sometimes called the "Q". It was known as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League until 2023.

Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League
Ligue de hockey junior Maritimes Québec

Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 QMJHL season
Sport	Ice hockey
Founded	1969
Founder	Robert Lebel
President	Gilles Courteau
No. of teams	18
Country	Canada
Most recent champion(s)	Drummondville Voltigeurs (2)
Most titles	Gatineau Olympiques (7)
TV partner(s)	Sportsnet Sportsnet One EastLink TV TVA Sports
Official website	theqmjhl.ca

There are 18 teams in the QMJHL that are in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island in Canada. The winner of the QMJHL plays against the winners of the Western Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League for the Memorial Cup. Many good players go from the QMJHL to the National Hockey League, and nine players from the QMJHL are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

History

The QMJHL was created in 1969 from two different junior leagues in Quebec, the Quebec Junior Hockey League and the Metropolitan Montreal Junior Hockey League. These two teams wanted to make a better junior league for the province, so combined teams from their leagues. Eight teams were from the QJHL and two from the MMJHL and another team came from a town in Ontario on the Ontario-Quebec border. Nearly every team was within a close distance of Montreal, the largest city in Quebec, though no team played in Montreal.

In 1972 the QMJHL finally wanted a team in Montreal, and tried to get the Montreal Junior Canadiens, who played in the Ontario Hockey Association, to join. The OHA made a deal with the QMJHL and gave them the Junior Canadiens while creating a new team in a different city to keep an OHA team with the same name.

In December 2023, the league changed its logo and the name of the league to the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League. This was done to recognize the Maritimes teams that are also in the league.

Member teams

2020–21 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

200km
125miles

Blainville-
Boisbriand

Saint John

Moncton

Halifax

Charlottetown

Cape Breton

Acadie–Bathurst

Victoriaville

Shawinigan

Rimouski

Quebec

Chicoutimi

Baie-Comeau

Val-d'Or

Sherbrooke

Rouyn-Noranda

Gatineau

Drummondville

  

Location of teams for the 2019–20 QMJHL season.
West Division East Division Maritimes Division

Division	Team	City	Arena
West	Blainville-Boisbriand Armada	Boisbriand, Quebec	Centre d'Excellence Sports Rousseau
	Drummondville Voltigeurs	Drummondville, Quebec	Centre Marcel Dionne
	Gatineau Olympiques	Gatineau, Quebec	Centre Robert Guertin
	Rouyn-Noranda Huskies	Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec	Aréna Iamgold
	Sherbrooke Phoenix	Sherbrooke, Quebec	Palais des Sports
	Val-d'Or Foreurs	Val-d'Or, Quebec	Centre Air Creebec
East	Baie-Comeau Drakkar	Baie-Comeau, Quebec	Centre Henry-Leonard
	Chicoutimi Saguenéens	Saguenay, Quebec	Centre Georges-Vézina
	Quebec Remparts	Quebec City, Quebec	Centre Vidéotron
	Rimouski Océanic	Rimouski, Quebec	Colisée de Rimouski
	Shawinigan Cataractes	Shawinigan, Quebec	Centre Gervais Auto
	Victoriaville Tigres	Victoriaville, Quebec	Colisée Desjardins
Maritimes	Acadie–Bathurst Titan	Bathurst, New Brunswick	K.C. Irving Regional Centre
	Cape Breton Eagles	Sydney, Nova Scotia	Centre 200
	Charlottetown Islanders	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island	Eastlink Centre
	Halifax Mooseheads	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Scotiabank Centre
	Moncton Wildcats	Moncton, New Brunswick	Avenir Centre
	Saint John Sea Dogs	Saint John, New Brunswick	TD Station

Other websites

• Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Official website Archived 2016-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Canadian Hockey League Official website
• Internet Hockey Database Archive of standings and statistics