AHA announces 2015–16 C3 division placement, Spiders head North

Oct. 20, 2015

At the Fall Tourney, the AHA announced the divisions for the upcoming 2015–16 season, and the 24-team C3 tier will feature three divisions of eight teams. The Spiders, in C3 North, thanks to Division Maker 3000’s purely random dice-roll, will see some familiar sweaters across the redline, as well as some new teams.

Notably absent from the C3 lineup are last year’s (and every year’s) champs Fighting Loons, who will now field four squads across three levels, as well as longtime rivals the Maroons and Sled Dogs.

The division breakdown, with last year’s regular-season record:

C3 East

• Diablos (11–8–1–0)
• Fighting Ice Fish (10–6–4–0)
• Hooligans (D2; 15–4–1–0)
• Marauders (6–11–2–1)
• Nighthawks (7–9–4–0)
• Stars (D1; 17–2–1–0; D1 East division title)
• Whalers (3–15–1–1)
• Wildcats (5–13–1–1)

C3 North

• Ak Bars (11–7–2–0)
• Arctic Wolves (D1; 14–2–2–0; D1 West division title)
• Fighting Loons (D1; 12–6–1–1)
• Les Etoiles du Nord (D2; 9–9–2–0)
• Mastodons (11–5–4–0)
• Northern Horde (6–13–0–1)
• Royals (9–7–3–1)
• Spiders (7–10–2–1)

C3 West

• Blade Runners (10–7–3–0)
• Gold Rush (10–7–3–0)
• Ice Dogs (10–10–0–0)
• Leafs/Fighting Saints (17–1–0–2/5–13–2–0)
• Mosquitos (D1; 13–6–0–1)
• Northern Gators (9–2–2–0)
• ShameOnIce (5–11–2–2)
• Spartans (D1; 13–5–1–1)