season without winning a game. After one season following the Islanders merge, the Seguin Huskies folded in 2018. The GMHL also added two teams originally in the Canadian Premier Junior Hockey League in the Niagara-on-the-Lake Nationals and Ottawa Sharpshooters for 2018–19. The Wiarton Schooners returned but folded midseason for the second consecutive season, and third consecutive midseason GMHL team folding in the town of Wiarton. In 2019, the league added the Western Provinces Hockey Association (WPHA) as a Western Division in the GMHL for the 2019–20 season, which then rebranded as the GMHL West. The WPHA had played the previous season in the Western States Hockey League as the Provinces Division. The 2020 playoffs were then curtailed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and no champion was named. The following 2020–21 season did not take place as scheduled due to pandemic restrictions in Ontario and Quebec, with six teams playing only two games each in December 2020. The four teams in the GMHL West were able to play a partial season and a playoff in May 2021. Teams 2022–23 teams 2022–23 changes The Plattsville Lakers were suspended following league investigation. Early February Kitimat Saax announced that they intended to enter a team in the West Division. Article in Interior news noted the Burns Lake Timbermen and Tumbler Ridge Steel Kings, will join Kitimat in expansion. Regular season champions Bolded are overall regular season champions. Russell Cup playoff champions Bolded are overall champions, Italics are finalist. College Showcase Tournament Since 2009, the GMHL has had a mid-season prospect tournament. Generally, the top seven teams of the league compete in the tournament with an eighth team, the GMHL Selects representing the other teams in the league. The 2012 tournament featured both the Bradford Rattlers and South Muskoka Shield being thrown out in the semifinal round. An incident, both on-ice and later off-ice, involving a player from each team and later two more players and a parent from one team entering the altercation, resulted in a police investigation and one team refusing to continue. The league disqualified both teams after the game failed to continue. Since the 2012 tournament, the league changed the format to a prospect weekend with no championship rounds. League records Scoring champions Goals against average champions Team records Best record: 2012–13 Bradford Rattlers (42–0–0–0) Worst record: 2007–08 Douro Dukes (2–40–0–0) Most goals for by team, one season: 2017–18