The league said in a release that the decision was made due to limitations on travel, border restrictions, and quarantining requirements. The CHL is committed to the health and safety of our players, their families and billets, our teams, staff and officials, and the communities in which we play. That has driven all of our difficult decisions for the last year as we have dealt with this global pandemic, CHL president Dan MacKenzie said in a statement.
Five WHL teams and three OHL teams are based in the United States.
The OHL was scheduled to host the 2021 Memorial Cup in either Oshawa or Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
The Memorial Cup has been cancelled for a second year in a row.
The Canadian Hockey League made the announcement this afternoon, citing the health and safety of players, team staff and the entire CHL family in the decision making process.
The Western Hockey League and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League both managed to play parts of a shortened season, however the Ontario Hockey League never returned to play after shutting down in March 2020.
The CHL says it doesn’t see a path in which champions from all three leagues can be produced because of border restrictions and quarantining requirements.
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Most of the sports tournaments and championships taken down by the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 found a way to hold their events later in 2020 or early in 2021, and even some cancelled altogether (like the NCAA 2020 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments and spring championships) have since come back of the 2021 version. But the Memorial Cup (trophy seen above in 2019 , the four-team championship involving the champion of each of the three major junior hockey leagues (the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League, and Quebec Major Junior Hockey League) and a host, now won’t be played for a second consecutive season.
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