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What is Metropolitan Boston Hockey League mean?
The Metropolitan Boston Hockey League was a youth hockey league founded March 31, 1977, and incorporated in Massachusetts in August 1979.
The MBHL was unique in youth hockey. The MBHL was classified as an "AAA" or "Tier I" league, but did not have a ranked team in the top 50 "AAA" nationally in its last several years. However, Assebet Valley had been on the fringe of these rankings several times over the past decade. Within the league, modified NCAA rules were played, the same as in U.S. college hockey. Slapshots and body checking were allowed at all age levels. MBHL league play began the first weekend after Labor Day and winded up with playoffs in late March of the following year. No other Minor hockey organization in North America—or the world, permitted body checking or slapshots at the Mite & Squirt/Novice & Atom levels.
The MBHL had Twenty Two original organizations (some teams changed the team names):Acton Colonial , Bay State Sharks, formerly the Plymouth County All Stars, North Shore Raiders, Hobomock U.S.A. (became New England Falcons, now Bridgewater Bandits), The Worcester Crusaders, UMass Lowell River Hawks men's ice hockey (formerly Lowell Chiefs, then West River Wolves), Mass Bay Chiefs, St. Moritz Devils and the Springfield Pics. The Bay State Breakers, Boston Jr. Eagles, Boston Jr. Terriers, West River Wolves, Bridgewater Bandits, Middlesex Islanders, Minuteman Flames, Providence Capitals (formerly Providence Friars), South Shore Kings, Merrimack Cardinals, and Top Gun all left the MBHL in 2004 for the Eastern Hockey Federation.
Upon the league's discontinuation after the end of the 2008-2009 season, most remaining teams transferred to the New England Hockey League, which has since been split into the Boston Hockey League and the Elite 9 Hockey League.
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