2016–17 MHL season

The 2016–17 Maritime Junior Hockey League season was the 50th season in league history. The season consisted of 50 games played by each MHL team.

At the end of the regular season, the league's top teams competed for the Kent Cup, the league's playoff championship trophy. The team successful in winning the Kent Cup went on to compete for the 2017 Fred Page Cup to determine the Eastern Canadian Champion, who would then move on to compete for the 2017 Royal Bank Cup to determine the 2017 Junior 'A' champion.

Team Changes
No team changes.

Regular-season Standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses; SL = Shootout losses; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PTS = Points; STK = Streak; x = Clinched playoff spot y = Clinched division; z = Clinched first overall

Division Semi-final

 * *= If Necessary

South Division Semi-final 1 (1) Pictou County Crushers vs. (4) Amherst Ramblers

 * Game 5 between Pictou County and Amherst was played at the Keating Millennium Centre in Antigonish on the campus of STFX