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the time. Junior hockey has always been popular in Canada. There is a different Junior A nowadays, the Jr A in the article we are discussing was the top level in Canada (along with Quebec and
Western leagues). Junior A nowadays is a lower level. Junior A became 'Major Junior'. It is confusing, partly because the junior hockey ranks was very contested. The Junior A teams until 1966 were sponsored by National Hockey League teams and afterwards the Junior A teams were the ones that received transfer monies from the NHL. So the leagues would fight over that pie with others and try to make their league look like the top. It has become easier to define nowadays; the Canadian Hockey League is clearly the top level. Similarly for the senior ranks; there have been many leagues with various misleading names, e.g. Major League of Hockey. The article we are discussing is clearly within the top amateur level at the time,
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championships in general are less well-covered in newspapers) is not as relevant as it once was. Champions of this league could readily contest national championships. Much less so nowadays. So we should not compare it's relevance like it used to be. The OHA Junior A is the equivalent of today's
Ontario Hockey League of the Canadian Hockey League, so it supports historical information on the topic. So, to sum up, the league was very relevant and notable, dating back to the earliest days of ice hockey, and less so today and the OHA collection of articles needs work, but keep the article.
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I can vouch for Alaney2k's argument. I can also see your thinking in this matter, as "junior" tends to scream limited notability, but junior hockey in Canada has been huge for decades. Scores and standings, at the very least, of the top leagues are printed in major newspapers across the country,
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The OHA Jr. 'A' was reported, although not in detail, outside of
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It is indeed very confusing :-) I'll let some other people comment as well, I am not a specialist in
Canadian Hockey so it's hard for me to judge. It seems bizarre that a regional junior level would be (among) the top national level anyway, but stranger things have happened. If a few other people
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as results have been covered readily in newspapers. That said, the OHA and related articles are not complete. There is work to do and the current state of things does not make clear the notablity of the league. The OHA itself, while a contributor of national champions in the past, (amateur
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But they were a junior league, right? Anyway, results for very local competitions in many sports are often printed in newspapers, without us repeating (or wanting to repeat) these statistics. In our sports coverage, usually only results from (top levels) of senior leagues are given.
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although it was junior age. The top level of senior hockey in Canada exists, and existed then, but it is clearly not as good in quality as
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