League awards will be presented before Game 2 in Milton Monday
The Ontario Junior Hockey League Championship Series final will begin Saturday at Duncan McDonald Memorial Community Gardens in Trenton. The host Trenton Golden Hawks and Milton Menace are meeting in the best-of-seven series for the Buckland Cup.
Game time is 5 p.m.
Game 2 will be played Monday beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Milton Memorial Arena. The OJHL’s annual awards will be presented in a pregame ceremony on the ice.
The rest of the series:
Game 3: Wednesday, April 23, 7:30 p.m., Trenton
Game 4, Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., Milton
* Game 5, Monday, April 28, 7 p.m., Trenton
*Game 6, Wednesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m., Milton
*Game 7, Saturday, May 3, 5:30 p.m., Trenton
*if necessary
The OJHL champions will advance to the Centennial Cup national championship tournament, May 8-18, in Calgary, Alberta.
Trenton, which won the Brant Snow Memorial Trophy as regular season champions, earned home-ice advantage.
Both teams qualified for the final best-of-seven series by winning respective conference championships on Sunday night.
Trenton won its third straight East Conference banner with a 4-2 win over the Haliburton County Huskies in front of 1,110 fans in Trenton.
The Golden Hawks have won all three of their playoff series this year by four-games-to-one counts. Earlier, they eliminated Stouffville and Pickering.
Milton sports the best record (12-2-0-0) in the OJHL playoffs after eliminating the host Leamington Flyers with a 2-1 win in Leamington Sunday night.
Leamington was the top seed in the West and Milton the third seed.
The Menace began the playoffs by sweeping the arch-rival Burlington Cougars, before eliminating the Collingwood Blues in five games.
Collingwood, the 2024 national champions, defeated Trenton in the past two OJHL Championship Series.
