After completion of the 2019 National Junior A Championship the Royal Bank Cup Trophy was retired. It currently resides in the Hockey Hall Of Fame in Toronto. https://www.hhof.com/thecollection/historictrophies.html - info provided by Izak Westgate - Hockey Hall of Fame
As Canada's National Junior A Championship prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary in May in Portage la Prairie, Man., Hockey Canada, in partnership with the CJHL, has announced that Canada's National Junior A Championship will return to its original name - the Centennial Cup and a new trophy - starting in 2020. Officialy it will be called the Centennial Cup, presented by Tim Hortons.
For the 2023 tournament Hockey Canada had droped the "presented by Tim Hortons" moniker as Tim Hortons withdrew its sponsorship in response to the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal. Tim Horton has subsequently re-instated their sponsorship for 2024.
The National Junior A Championship, is an annual ice hockey competition that determines the Canadian Junior A champion. It is played under the supervision of Hockey Canada and the Canadian Junior Hockey League.
From my obserations of the new Centennial Cup, the new trophy contains elements of previous national championship trophies.
I do not see any elements in the new trophy that are in any way reminiscent to the Centennial Cup trophy used from 1990 to 1996.
The Road to the Centennial Cup includes 118 teams in nine leagues - from Canmore to Flin Flon to Campbellton. The leagues include Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL), Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL), Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL), Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL), Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL), Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL), Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL), Ligue de hockey junior AAA du Quebec (LHJAAAQ) and Maritime Hockey League (MHL).
All nine member league champions of the CJHL plus a Host will play for the National Championship, Centennial Cup, which will involve a Preliminary Round, 2 Quartefinals, 2 Semifinals and a Final.
For historical winners list visit this page National Champion Winners List.
Hosts-Portage Terriers, Portage La Prairie
Manitoba
2020 -
Not Awarded, cancelled March 12, 2020, due to
Covid-19 Pandemic
Hosts-Penticton Vees, Penticton, British
Columbia
2021 -
Not Awarded, cancelled Feburary 5th 2021, due to
Covid-19 Pandemic
Host, Estevan Bruins, Estevan, Saskatchewan, May
19 - 29
2022 -
BROOKS BANDITS (AJHL)
ROSTER: 7 Brendan Poshak, 8 Nathan Free, 9 Ryan
McAllister, 10 Noah Hackett, 11 Aiden Fink, 12
Heath Armstrong, 13 TJ Hughes, 15 Anthony
Cipollone, 18 Hunter Wallace, 20 Brendan Mairs,
21 Devin Phillips, 24 Ethan Mercer, 26 Dario
Beljo, 27 Nic DeGraves, 3 Ethan O'Halloran, 4
Boston Buckberger, 5 Dominic Campione, 6 Ethan
Lund, 14 Brendan Kennette, 19 Josh Zinger, 22
Hughie Hooker, 25 Wes Turner, 37 Zach Bookman, 1
Ethan Barwick, 30 Maxwell Beckford
STAFF: Ryan Papaioannou - Head Coach / General
Manager, Taylor Makin - Assistant Coach, Evan
McFeeters - Assistant Coach, Wayne Labrie - Head
Scout, Keven Sajinovic - Goaltending Coach, Kevin
Yellowaga - Skills Coach, Karyn Fanstone -
Trainer, Andrew Luchies - Trainer
Final: Gm#25: Brooks 4 - 1 Pickering
Semifinals: Gm#23: Longueuil 2 - 11 Brooks | Gm#24: Pickering 2 - 0 Dauphin
Quarterfinals: Gm#21: Flin Flon 2 - 30t Pickering | Gm#22: Longueuil 4 - 3 Summerside
Host, Portage La Prairie Terriers, Portage la
Prairie, Manitoba, May 11 - 21
2023 -
BROOKS BANDITS (AJHL)
ROSTER: 3 Josh Wiebe, 7 Brendan Poshak, 8 Caelan
Fitzpatrick, 9 Aiden Fink Forward, 10 Elliot
Dutil, 11 Mikhail Simchuk, 12 Heath Armstrong, 13
Nathan Free, 14 Jordan Hughesman, 15 Davide
Patella, 18 Hunter Wallace, 19 Hudson Malinoski,
20 Tyler Blocha, 21 Allen Sherpa, 24 Danylo
Korzhyletskyi, 26 Dario Beljo, 27 Luc Bibby, 2
Aiden Celebrini, 4 Luke Marshall, 5 Aaron Brown,
6 Ethan Beyer, 16 Dominick Campione, 22 Hughie
Hooker, 25 Wes Turner, 37 Sam Court, 1 Ethan
Barwick, 30 Wilson Maxfield, 33 Marek
Schlenker
STAFF: Ryan Papaioannou - Head Coach & General
Manager, Taylor Makin - Assistant Coach, Nick
Prkusic - Assistant Coach, Wayne Labrie - Head
Scout, Keven Sajinovic - Goaltending Coach,
Andrew Luchies - Trainer, Samantha Nyenhuis -
Trainer
Final: Gm#25: Brooks 4 - 0 Battlefords
Semifinals: Gm#23: Ottawa 0 - 3 Brooks | Gm#24: Portage 1 - 7 Battlefords
Quarterfinals: Gm#21: Collingwood 2 - 4 Ottawa | Gm#22: Yarmouth 1 - 2 Portage
Host, Oakville Blades, Oakville, Ontario, May 9 -
19
2024 -
COLLINGWOOD BLUES (OJHL)
ROSTER: 8 Dylan Hudon, 9 Marcus Lougheed, 10
Declan Bowmaster, 11 Ethan Facchina, 12 Daniel
Markevych, 14 Sam Barrett, 15 Damen Boose, 17
Hunter Nagge, 18 Spencer Young, 21 Jack
Silverman, 26 Jax Bellwood, 36 Landon Wright, 44
Mark McIntosh, 46 Jack Rimmer, 89 Sam Lockyer, 4
Lucas Texmo, 7 Jacob Winsor, 16 Ethan Broderick,
19 Cameron Eke, 22 Calum Chau, 55 Ryan Cook, 78
Jack Robertson, 79 Adam Varga, , 29 Colton
Drillen-Roach, 31 Noah Pak
STAFF: Mike Tarantino-General Manager, Jordan
Selinger -Director of Operations, Andrew
Campoli-Head Coach, Connor Cadaret-Assistant
Coach, Nick Ricca-Assistant Coach, Ryan
Aschaber-Goaltending Coach, Alessandro
Lupo-Goaltending Coach, Chris Grollo-Trainer,
Sarah McGall-Trainer, Richard Judges-Equipment
Manager, Jason Steer-Equipment Manager, Dave
Steele-Governor
Final: Gm#25: Collingwood 1-0 Melfort
Semifinals: Gm#23: Collingwood 5-2 Miramichi | Gm#24: Melfort 2-1 Calgary
Quarterfinals: Gm#21: Miramichi 8-4 Navan | Gm#22: Calgary 4-1 Winkler
Host, Calgary Canucks (AJHL), Calgary, Alberta,
May 8 - 18
2025 -
CALGARY CANUCKS (AJHL)
ROSTER: 7 Hayden Fechner, 9 Luc Trevors, 10 Jack
Plandowski, 11 Tate Hanson , 15 Gavin Schmidt, 16
Jayden Joly, 17 Riley Bracko, 18 Bowden
Singleton, 19 Simon Bowland, 20 Rhys Jamieson, 21
Logan Murray, 23 Matthew Paszkiewicz, 24 Ethan
Watkins, 27 Rhett Melnyk, 29 Nolan DuPont, 3
Matthew Keller, 4 Landon Pappas, 5 David Byrne, 6
Drayton Aleman, 8 Nathan Maloney, 12 Adam Leitch,
22 Kenny Sutton, 25 Alexey Trischuk, 26 Wade
Wallace, 30 Cruz Chase, 31 Lukas Renaud, 34 Noah
Nelson, 37 Sartaj Dhami
STAFF: Ryan Rarick - Assistant General Manager,
Brad Moran - Head Coach & General Manager, Riley
Hearn - Assistant Coach, Jamie Henry - Assistant
Coach, Mat Robinson - Assistant Coach, Garry
VanHereweghe - Assistant Coach
Final: Gm#25: Calgary 7-2 Melfort
Semifinals: Gm#23: Calgary 3-2 ot1 Rockland | Gm#24: Trenton 3-4 Melfort
Quarterfinals: Gm#21: Melfort 7-1 Greater Sudbury | Gm#22: Northern Manitoba 0-4 Rockland
For 1971 to 2019 historical winners list including Manitoba Centennial Trophy (1962-1995), Royal Bank Cup (1996-2018) and the National Jr. A Championship (2019) please, visit this page National Champion Winners List.