2015-2016 CLL Season

Summary
NEW ENGLAND TAKES HOME CAZAH CUP - DEDICATES WIN TO JAMIE BENN

Led by Giroux, Malkin, and Quick, New England secured their first Cazah Cup, easily defeating Weedon in the first CLL playoffs to see all top 4 seeds move onto the semi-finals.

New England was active in building their playoff roster, trading a significant amount of their drafted young talent, including Aleksander Barkov and John Klingberg, to obtain veteran presences like Evgeni Malkin and Mark Giordano.

The story of the playoffs was not New England's dominant finals performance, but rather its all-time season changing moment that came in their semi-finals matchup against the Wyoming Wizards. Trailing 7-6 late on Sunday night with no players remaining, New England's hopes of advancing to the Cazah Cup remained on the shoulders of one player on the Wizard's roster: Jamie Benn. History was made. Wyoming, leading the +/- category by 1, only needed no changes to the matchup to advance. As Dallas pulled their goalie in an attempt to tie the game game at 12:13am Eastern Time, New England sent out a prayer and received a response, as the Dallas Stars scored an own goal in their empty net, giving Jamie Benn the -1. New England owned the tie-breaker, and advanced to their first Cazah Cup finals.

Other notable season events:
 * La Belle Province: Quebec became the first franchise in CLL history to finish top 3 in both the season and playoffs in consecutive seasons.
 * Weedon Wows CLL: in Weedon's first season as part of the CLL, the franchise made the Cazah Cup final - no easy feat for a first-year franchise.

Draft
The 2015-16 Cazah Draft took place at the John Molson School of Business on October 1st, 2016. The following is the draft order, inlcuding first round results: