The 2023–24 SIJHL season was the 22nd season of the Superior International Junior Hockey League. The league's 7 teams each played a 49-game regular season schedule from September 2023 – March 2024. The Sioux Lookout Bombers won the league championship Bill Salonen Cup after defeating the Kam River Fighting Walleye in four games in the final round of the playoffs.

League changes

The Kenora Islanders joined the league as an expansion team. League commissioner Darrin Nicholas stepped down at the end of the season to pursue other opportunities. Dean Thibodeau was appointed as the seventh commissioner in league history on 2 August 2024.

Regular season

Teams played each other team 7 times during the regular season.

|+ style="background:#001B4F; border-top:#BE1E2D 5px solid; border-bottom:#BE1E2D 5px solid"| ! style=width:12em | Team ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Games Played">GP</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Wins">W</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Losses">L</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Overtime Losses">OTL</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Shootout Losses">SOL</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr title> |- align="right" | align="left"|Kam River Fighting Walleye || 49 || 39 || 9 || 1 || 0 || 79 |- align="right" | align="left"|Sioux Lookout Bombers || 49 || 35 || 10 || 2 || 2 || 74 |- align="right" | align="left"|Thunder Bay North Stars || 49 || 32 || 12 || 3 || 2 || 69 |- align="right" | align="left"|Dryden Ice Dogs || 49 || 31 || 16 || 1 || 1 || 64 |- align="right" | align="left"|Red Lake Miners || 49 || 29 || 18 || 2 || 0 || 60 |- align="right" | align="left"|Wisconsin Lumberjacks || 49 || 16 || 26 || 6 || 1 || 39 |- align="right" | align="left"|Fort Frances Lakers || 49 || 12 || 31 || 4 || 2 || 30 |- align="right" | align="left"|Kenora Islanders || 49 || 2 || 46 || 0 || 1 || 5

Post-season

The playoff format consisted of 3 best-of-7 rounds and all 8 teams. Ultimately the 2nd place Sioux Lookout Bombers swept the 1st place Kam River Fighting Walleye 4-0 in the final round.

The Sioux Lookout Bombers advanced to the national championship tournament and were eliminated after the preliminary round.

See also

2024 Centennial Cup

Canadian Junior Hockey League

Hockey Canada

Hockey Northwestern Ontario

Superior International Junior Hockey League

References

Further reading