Mowat Cup

Mowat Cup

The Mowat Cup is emblematic of the BC Hockey Junior A Tier II ice hockey Championship of British Columbia (BC).

The Mowat Cup was donated to the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association by Mr. John Mowat of Victoria, BC, for competition in the 1927-28 hockey season.[1]

BC Hockey announced the return of the Mowat Cup, in 2024, to be contested by the champions of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, Pacific Junior Hockey League, and the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League will vie for the Cup alongside a host team. The tournament will feature a four-team round-robin and playoff to determine the 2024 Mowat Cup Champion[1]

The winner of the Mowat Cup historically moved on to play the winner of Alberta's Carling O'Keefe Cup for the Doyle Cup, signifying the Canadian Pacific Regions champion.[2]

In past years, junior teams in BC played in various regional leagues, including the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League, Pacific Coast Junior Hockey League, Peace Cariboo Junior Hockey League and Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League. Various formats for Mowat Cup competition usually saw the champions of these regional leagues compete for the Mowat Cup.[3]

Since 1999, the Mowat Cup has been exclusive to the province-wide Junior "A" British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). As the BCHL already awarded the Fred Page Cup to its league champions, the BCHL champions were technically also the Mowat Cup champions; the league stopped using this joint Cups designation as of the 2016–17 season, simply awarding the Fred Page Cup.[4]

  1. ^ a b "MOWAT CUP ONCE AGAIN THE PREMIER SYMBOL OF JUNIOR A EXCELLENCE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA". BCHockey . 2024-07-03. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  2. ^ "The history of the Mowat Cup". BCHL Network . 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  3. ^ "BCHockey Handbook 2024" (PDF). BCHockey . 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  4. ^ "Mowat Cup". British Columbia Hockey League. 2022-11-12. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2022-11-12.