The Superior International Junior Hockey League will be a six-team circuit in 2013-14.
League officials on Friday confirmed that the Dryden Ice Dogs, Fort Frances Lakers, Minnesota Iron Rangers and Thunder Bay North Stars will all return for the SIJHL’s 13th campaign.
The Wilderness franchise will return to Spooner, Wisc., where they won a pair of league championships, while the league has spread its wings and welcomes the English River Miners, an expansion team based in Ear Falls, Ont.
“We’re looking forward to our 13th year of operation and we expect a highly competitive league,” said SIJHL president and commissioner Ron Whitehead in a release.
“Coming off a season where the SIJHL won its second Dudley-Hewitt Cup, advanced all the way to the semi-final of the Royal Bank Cup, before falling in overtime to the eventual national champions, as well as seeing some of our alumni achieve impressive accomplishments at both the collegiate and professional levels, we look to build off those positives.
