Where Men's Hockey Begins
Welcome to the Sunday Night Hockey League – the GTA’s premier men’s recreational hockey league for players aged 19-50+. It’s a fast paced and highly competitive draft league, made up of 8 teams with 112 players. The season starts after Labour Day in September and ends in mid/late March. Our home arena is Albion Bolton Community Centre, with our first 5 weeks playing out of Caledon East Community Complex. We typically play 17-19 regular-season games, followed by a 7-game round-robin playoff, semifinals, the Callaghan Cup Championship Game, and the SNHL All-Star Game.
Although the exact start date of the Sunday Night Hockey League (SNHL) is unknown, we estimate that the league was founded around 1986 by the late “Commissioner” Jerry Callaghan. Back then, the league was known as the “Mayfield Men’s Hockey League”. It was started as a place where Caledon minor hockey players could continue playing hockey as young adults. Years later, the league moved to Bolton and operated as the “Bolton Jr. Men’s Hockey League”. Over the years, the league has operated under a few other names, including the “Mr. Sub Jr. Men’s Hockey League” followed by the “Sunday Night Jr. Men’s Hockey League”.
In 2008, after the Commissioner’s sudden passing, the league was adopted by Steve Conforti. To end that season, the league introduced a the first-ever championship trophy, appropriately named the Callaghan Cup. With 2016 marking the league’s 30th anniversary, the SNJMHL dropped the “Jr. Men’s” and was rebranded as the “Sunday Night Hockey League”. The rebrand included a new logo as well as this website.
In 2016, the league created a charity hockey fundraiser called The FACEOFF to Fight Cervical Cancer. The game featured the guys of the SNHL All-Stars versus the girls of the Brampton/Markham Thunder (CWHL) women’s professional hockey team. The FACEOFF to Fight turned into a 3-year event that, in total, raised $20,000 in support of Tealpower.
