Toronto, Ont. – The Ontario Hockey League, along with the Greater Toronto Hockey League and new presenting sponsor FPS Payment announced today that the 2024 OHL Cup Showcase is set to take place from Monday, March 25 through Saturday, March 30. The showcase will feature 20 of the top Under-16 AAA programs from across Ontario and the United States pursuing the annual championship.
This year’s showcase will include several new elements, with the Championship Final moving from its typical placement on Monday night to being held on Saturday, March 30 at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in downtown Toronto. Wild card and round robin play will commence on Monday, March 25 at Scotiabank Pond and run through Wednesday, March 27 before Quarter-final and Semi-final games are held on Thursday, March 28. No games will be played on Friday, March 29.
A total of 17 guaranteed entries will compete in the showcase along with an additional three teams emerging as winners from wild card play-in games.
Hockey Eastern Ontario (HEO) will be making its return to the OHL Cup Showcase for the first time since 2017. The champion and finalist from the HEO U16 AAA division will qualify for the showcase along with the final four teams in the GTHL, final-four teams in the Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario (ALLIANCE) and top-four teams at the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) Championships, along with individual entries from the United States (TPH Hockey), Hockey Northwestern Ontario’s (HNO) Thunder Bay Kings and the Northern Ontario Hockey Association (NOHA).
Teams gaining entry to wild card play-in games will include the highest remaining seed from the ALLIANCE, the highest remaining seed from the GTHL and the fifth-place team at the OMHA Championships. An OHL Cup wild card selection committee will determine the remaining three teams that will play for a chance to gain entry to the showcase by no later than Friday, March 22.
The 2024 Gloria Rints Memorial Silver Stick Tournament gets underway in Whitby, Ont. this week as the road to the 2024 OHL Priority Selection for players born primarily in 2008 continues. Stay tuned for the first edition of weekly OHL Cup Top 10 Rankings that will be published ahead of the tournament on Wednesday.
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