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WOHL
- League status: Not active
- Youth league: yes, U20
- English name: Western Ontario Junior B Hockey League
- Administered by: Ontario Hockey Association
- Year of start: 1969
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| # | Player name | Pos | Team | GP | G | A | P | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Steve Ott | F | Leamington Flyers | 48 | 14 | 30 | 44 | 110 | |
| 2. |  Tim Gleason | D | Leamington Flyers | 52 | 5 | 26 | 31 | 76 | |
| 3. | Erik Reitz | D | Leamington Flyers | 50 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 80 | |
| 4. | Gregory Campbell | F | Aylmer Aces | 49 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 44 | |
| 5. |  David Josephson | F | St. Marys Lincolns | 20 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | |
| 6. |  Jure Penko | G | Leamington Flyers | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7. | Stéphane Gervais | D | Tecumseh Bulldogs | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8. |  Oleg Romashko | G | Chatham Maroons (Jrs) | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Show all stats for season 1998-1999 | |||||||||
The Western had been a part of the Big '10' until 1956, when the Eastern and Western conference were split into separate leagues -- the Eastern becoming the Central, the Western becoming the Western League.
In 1968, the St.Thomas Barons, Sarnia Legionnaires, Guelph Imperials, Chatham Maroons and Brantford Foresters broke away from the Ontario Hockey Association to form a Junior "A" League known as the Western Ontario Junior A Hockey League. A year later, the OHA pulled together a bunch of local teams (the Waterloo Siskins, Stratford Warriors, Sarnia Bees, St.Mary's Lincolns and the London Squires) as well as the return of the Strathroy Rockets (who had joined the Central Junior B league for a season) and formed a new Western Ontario Junior "B" Hockey League.
According to the WOJHL history, a re-organization of Ontario's Jr. B hockey teams occurred prior to the 1978/79 with the folding of the short lived Southwestern Junior B Hockey League and the Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League. The realignment meant that the OHA had consolidated the Southern Ontario region from 7 to 5 Junior "B" leagues. Although this marks the birth of the modern Western Ontario Jr. B league, the teams in the league did not change. In 1989, the Metro league went renegade and eventually became a Tier II Junior "A" league. In 1993, the Central league was promoted to Tier II Junior "A" as well. Since then, the OHA has operated with 3 Junior "B" leagues, but due to the talent level of these 3 league there has been a recent push to bring all three leagues to the Tier II Junior "A" level and allow for a new realignment.
From 1999 until 2001, the league changed its name to the Greater Ontario Hockey League in an attempt to drop the "Junior B" designation. The league has since referred to itself as the Western Ontario Hockey League.
In 2007, the WOHL merged with the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League and the Golden Horseshoe Junior Hockey League to become the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. In 2008 the three leagues were dissolved and became divisions in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League under one governing body. In essence, this was the WOHL's final season.
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Fast factsseason 1998-1999
- Youngest player: Gregory Campbell (15 years)
- Oldest player: Scott Murray (20 years)
- Shortest player: David Josephson (178 cm)
- Tallest player: Stéphane Gervais (190 cm)
- Nationalities: Canada (5), Russia (1), Slovenia (1), Sweden (1), USA (2)
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