Truro, N.S. (June 13, 2025) – The Maritime Junior Hockey League (MHL) is pleased to announce that the Metalfab MHL Cup champion Edmundston Blizzard have been named the Roger Meek Executive of the Year for the 2024-25 season. This is the first time the team has won the award since the 2017-18 season, when they also captured the league title.
Edmundston finished with the MHL’s best record in the regular season at 44-6-1-1, an improvement of five wins and eleven points from the 2023-24 season. It was the first time since the Woodstock Slammers in 2011-12 that a team hit the 90-point mark. The Blizzard were ranked in the top five of the CJHL’s Top 20 Weekly Rankings for all but two weeks this season. They were the first team since that Slammers squad to hit #1 in the rankings, a feat they accomplished twice, including in the year’s final list.
Edmundston scored 238 goals and allowed a league-best 126, both of which were improvements from the 2023-24 season. The Blizzard also had a slightly better penalty killing mark of 81.6% this season. Simon Olivier won MHL Coach of the Year, the first time a Blizzard coach won the award and the first for the franchise since Jeff Leblanc won with the Dieppe Commandos in 2013-14. Captain Philippe Collette was named Player of the Year, Émile Fournier was named Rookie of the Year, and goaltenders Austin Caley and Frédéric Cousineau won the Young/Knickle Award for being on the team which allowed the fewest goals. Collette, Raphaël Denis, and Jérémy D’Astous were named to the Eastlink North All-Star Team, while Fournier made the Rookie All-Star Team.
After a five-game series win against Miramichi to open the playoffs, Edmundston swept Campbellton to capture the Eastlink North Division title and the Pictou County Weeks Crushers to win the league trophy. At the Centennial Cup in Calgary, AB, the Blizzard finished in fourth place in their group to end their season with two wins and two losses.
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Media Contact:
James Faulkner
Director of Communications
Maritime Junior Hockey League
jfaulkner@themhl.ca