Ever wonder how teams do against one another or who has actually won the most over the last five years? Wonder no more as today's blog gives us an update and takes into account franchise relocations.
An interesting fact in compiling this data is that there is one team that has NEVER lost a season series against anyone... and despite Fort Erie having the best record overall, it wasn't them! Find out who it is below, as that team apparently does not have any holes in their game in the regular season!
Amos Comets — Sit dead in the middle of the league (#11), but have beaten New Mexico Scorpions in the season series all 5 years running, undefeated in that particular rivalry.
Beartown Bears — Dominant over Willowdale Rush (18-6) but have never found an answer for Fort Erie, losing that series by the widest margin of any team they play (8-24).
Calgary Chinook — Third-best team overall, and has swept Val-d'Or Nuggets in the season series all 4 years they've coexisted. Their one real kryptonite: Wisborg Donuts (5-13).
Capeside Loons — Put a beating on Chippawa Crackerjacks (24-8) nearly as bad as Fort Erie's — the Crackerjacks just can't catch a break against anyone good.
Chattahoochee Crawdads — One of the unluckiest draws in the league: swept every single season by both Fort Erie and Iceland Icecats (5-for-5 against each).
Chippawa Crackerjacks — The league's official punching bag: swept every year by three different teams (Fort Erie, Seattle Reign, Iceland Icecats), and their 2-24 record against Fort Erie is the single most lopsided matchup in the whole dataset.
Denver Spurs — Never beaten Fort Erie in a season series, but absolutely owns Halifax Norsemen (19-5).
Fergus Flapping Kilts — Also swept by Fort Erie every year, but does solid business against Senneterre Beavers (17-9).
Fort Erie Falcons — Best offense AND best defense in the league, with 5 teams (plus a 6th at 4-for-4) that have never once beaten them in a season series across 5 years.
Georgetown Millers — A quietly solid #8 team with a 22-10 edge over Chattahoochee Crawdads, their biggest sample-size rivalry at 32 games.
Halifax Norsemen — Below .500 overall, and Denver Spurs is a big reason why — a 5-19 hole they've never climbed out of.
Iceland Icecats — #4 overall with the league's second-best defense, and has two perfect 5-year sweeps of their own (Chippawa Crackerjacks and Chattahoochee Crawdads).
Las Vegas Aces — Surprisingly potent offense (5th in the league in goals/game) wasted on a middling overall record — Iceland Icecats has their number at 9-23.
New Mexico Scorpions — Doubly cursed: swept every single season by both Amos Comets and Fort Erie.
Parry Sound Orrsmen — A top-10 team that's swept Val-d'Or Nuggets every year they've played (21-5 combined) — comfortably one of their favorite opponents.
Seattle Reign — Another team that's never lost a season series to Chippawa Crackerjacks, and put up a 24-8 beatdown on Senneterre Beavers, tied for one of the biggest margins in the league.
Senneterre Beavers — Near the bottom of the standings, and Fort Erie's 25-7 domination of them is the widest win-margin gap Fort Erie has against anyone.
Springfield Isotopes — Middle of the pack, but Calgary Chinook has thoroughly solved them, 2-16 across just 18 games.
Val-d'Or Nuggets — Dead last in the league in literally every category, and swept every season by four different teams (Calgary, Fort Erie, Parry Sound, Wisborg) — their only winning series ever recorded is a 5-3 mark over Amos Comets. All understandable for a slow-building expansion team.
Victoria Ronin — A solidly good team (#5 overall) with one weird blind spot: a losing record against Capeside Loons (3-7), and they're one of only two teams to ever beat Fort Erie in a season series.
Willowdale Rush — Near the very bottom, and suffered the single biggest goal-differential blowout of anyone in the dataset — a -60 goal differential across 32 games against Wisborg Donuts.
Wisborg Donuts — The real story of this whole report: 20-0-1 in season series against the entire league, with their only non-win being a 5-5 tie against Amos Comets.
Fort Erie is a complete team, not just a good record. Across all 5 seasons, the Falcons lead the entire league in both goals-for per game (4.40) and goals-against per game (2.90, best defense too) — best offense AND best defense in the CCHL. That's a rare combination; usually one comes at the cost of the other.
Fort Erie's perfect five-peats. The Falcons have beaten these five teams in the season series every single year you've faced them across the whole 5-year window, no exceptions: Chippawa Crackerjacks, Denver Spurs, New Mexico Scorpions, Chattahoochee Crawdads, and Fergus Flapping Kilts. Chippawa Crackerjacks in particular has also never beaten Seattle Reign or Iceland Icecats in a season series either — they're basically everybody's punching bag.
Val-d'Or Nuggets are the league's true bottom feeder by every measure, not just record: worst offense (3.03 GF/game) and worst defense (4.07 GA/game) in the league, and their 4 seasons against Calgary Chinook, Fort Erie, Parry Sound Orrsmen, and Wisborg Donuts have gone winless every single year against each of them.
Biggest rivalries by volume: five different pairs have played the max 32 games over these 5 seasons — Willowdale Rush/Wisborg Donuts, Seattle Reign/Senneterre Beavers, New Mexico Scorpions/Victoria Ronin, Iceland Icecats/Las Vegas Aces, and Halifax Norsemen/Springfield Isotopes. On the flip side, Amos Comets has the thinnest sample against a few opponents (just 8 games against Val-d'Or Nuggets; Halifax Norsemen has the same against Val-d'Or too) — mostly a function of Val-d'Or Nuggets only having existed as a distinct current-era franchise since the 2024-25 rename.
League scoring overall: 4,292 total games in this 5-season window, 30,333 combined goals, an average of 7.07 goals per game across the whole league — a pretty high-event, offense-friendly era for the CCHL.
The real #1 team isn't who the standings say. Fort Erie Falcons tops the overall win-percentage table at .741, but Wisborg Donuts has the more jaw-dropping record: over these 5 seasons, Wisborg has never lost a season series to anyone. Not once. Their record against all 21 other franchises is 20 series won, 0 lost, and exactly 1 tie (a 5-5 split with Amos Comets). That includes beating Fort Erie itself 14-10 across their 24 meetings — Wisborg is the only team that's had Fort Erie's number.
Fort Erie's kryptonite. The Falcons are 18-2-1 in the season series against the league, an outstanding mark — but the two teams that've beaten them across these 5 years are Wisborg Donuts (10-14) and, more surprisingly, Victoria Ronin (4-6 over just 10 games), a team that finished mid-pack overall (#5) and actually has a losing record against two of the league's worst teams (Chippawa Crackerjacks and Senneterre Beavers). Victoria Ronin apparently only shows up for the games that matter to Fort Erie.
Basement dweller with one signature win. Val-d'Or Nuggets is dead last overall (.311 win%, series record 1-19-1) but that lone series win came against Amos Comets, a team ranked #11 — literally the middle of the league. Every fanbase needs a rival they can still beat.
The most balanced rivalry in the league. Chattahoochee Crawdads vs. New Mexico Scorpions: 13-13 across 26 games, and a goal differential of exactly +0. As even as two teams can possibly be over 5 years.
Biggest goal-differential blowout rivalry. Fort Erie vs. Senneterre Beavers, where the Falcons have outscored them 148-74 (a +74 differential) over 32 games — probably the closest thing to a bully matchup in the whole league.
Closest photo finishes (min. 15 games played): four different pairs are locked at exactly 9-9, including Amos Comets vs. Beartown Bears and Amos Comets vs. Fergus Flapping Kilts — Amos Comets shows up in three of the handful of dead-even rivalries in the league, for whatever that's worth.
