From 2005 to 2013 the league champion played against the winner of the Central-West Junior Hockey League for the Veitch Memorial Trophy as the top junior team in the province. Since 2014 the league has been the only junior league at the top level in the province and would become champion by winning the league playoffs. The trophy is not awarded when there is only one league at the top level in the province. During the 1980's and 1990's there were several other leagues that completed at the junior B level and would compete for the championship