The Stouffville Spirit will begin the 2025 Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs with a pair of weekend games.
The Spirit are playing the Wellington Dukes, from near Belleville, in the opening-round, best-of-seven series.
The first game will be played Saturday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. at the Stouffville Arena.
The rest of the schedule:
- Sunday, March 9, 4 p.m., in Wellington
- Thursday, March 13, 7:30 p.m., in Stouffville
- Friday, March 14, 7:30 p.m., in Wellington
- Sunday, March 16, 2:30 p.m., in Stouffville*
- Monday, March 17, 7:30 p.m. in Wellington*
- Thursday, March 20, 7:30 p.m., at Stouffville*
*if necessary
The Spirit and Dukes finished with the same 33-19-0-4 record and split the four-game regular season series. The Spirit won home ice in the series based on a goals for and against tiebreaker used by the OJHL.
Sixteen teams qualified for the OJHL playoffs. The league champs will travel to Calgary for the Centennial Cup national championship tournament in May.