This is the 2025-26 Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey season. This is the league's 30th season overall dating back to its' founding in 1996 as the semi-professional Quebec Semi Professional Hockey League. This is the league's 21st season under this name which it adopted for the 2004-05 season.
Team membership changes Shortly after the Laval Pétroliers won the league championship on May 2nd, a video surfaced of locker room celebration where team members were seen damaging the Gilles-Rousseau Cup, including one man performing an elbow drop on the trophy. The Petroliers released a statement acknowledging the incident and claiming no disrespect, saying the offender was a fan who had made his way into the locker room during the post-game pandemonium. They went on to say that the trophy was not the actual trophy, or even the replica that the league uses for such celebrations, but a faux trophy. This was given some level of validity when a staffer posted a picture of a pristine Gilles-Rousseau Cup poolside with the caption “the cup is intact”. https://www.quebecice.com/post/cupgate-a-celebration-a-broken-trophy-and-a-suspension As a result of the incident, the team was temporarily suspended. The league governors later issued a press release on May 29, 2026 stating that the league was going to have seven teams in the league for the 2026-27 playing season, and that the league's board of governors voted to expel and dissolve the Laval Pétroliers at the league's Annual General Meeting.https://www.lnah.com/fr/publication/nouvelle/la_lnah_annonce_sa_saison_2026-2027.html
On August 1, 2026 the league announced the addition of the Manotick Mariners to the league for the 2026-27 season. The team was previously a member of the Northern Premier Hockey League.https://www.facebook.com/LNAHofficiel/posts/pfbid02S9YhuWL2tCGnF5qeKwf2ip2qz95TPZ72rocrb3X6gnRtC8AUG83ojyLUTtmHeemal
Teams Team City Arena JoinedLaval PétroliersLaval, QuebecColisée de Laval2018*Jonquière MarquisSaguenay, QuebecPalais des Sports de Saguenay1996*/2009 National de Québec Ancienne Lorette, Quebec Complexe Sportif Bonair 2024Rivière-du-Loup 3LRivière-du-Loup, QuebecCentre Premier Tech2008*/2010Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5Saint-Georges, QuebecCentre Sportif Lacroix-Dutil1996*/2010Bataillon de St-Hyacinthe St. Hyacinthe, QuebecStade L.P. Gaucher 2024Sorel-Tracy ÉperviersSorel-Tracy, QuebecColisée Cardin1996*/2013Thetford Mines AssuranciaThetford Mines, QuebecCentre Mario Gosselin1996*/2015
Standings Team GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts Laval Pétroliers 36 25 11 0 0 159 134 50 Bataillon de St-Hyacinthe 36 19 12 5 0 129 129 43 Sorel-Tracy Éperviers 36 19 13 4 0 135 121 42 Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 36 19 13 4 0 157 141 42 Thetford Mines Assurancia 36 18 16 1 1 142 117 38 Jonquière Marquis 36 17 17 2 0 132 147 36 National de Québec 36 15 18 3 0 130 155 33 Rivière-du-Loup 3L 36 12 21 3 0 112 152 27
Gilles-Rousseau Cup Playoffs All eight teams qualify for the playoffs.
Quarterfinals Laval Pétroliers defeated Rivière-du-Loup 3L 4 games to 1 (4-3, 3-0, 5-4, 3-6, 7-0) Bataillon de St-Hyacinthe defeated National de Québec 4 games to 3 (4-3, 3-1, 3-4 (ot), 3-5, 1-2, 5-2, 6-1) Jonquière Marquis defeated Sorel-Tracy Éperviers 4 games to 1 (4-3, 4-3, 5-4 (ot), 1-5, 4-2) Thetford Mines Assurancia defeated Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 4 games to 3 (1-2 (ot), 6-3, 4-3, 2-4, 3-5, 6-3, 3-2 (ot))
Semifinals Laval Pétroliers defeated Jonquière Marquis 4 games to 2 ( 5-1, 2-3, 4-1, 1-3, 2-1, 3-1) Bataillon de St-Hyacinthe defeated Thetford Mines Assurancia 4 games to 1 (4-3, 1-4, 4-3, 4-1, 4-2)
Final Laval Pétroliers defeated Bataillon de St-Hyacinthe 4 games to none (5-4, 5-3, 2-1, 4-0)
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