The 2025–26 SIJHL season is the 25th season of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL).
The field of competition was reduced to seven teams as the Kenora Islanders, which debuted as an expansion franchise in 2023, remained indefinitely suspended. The Islanders suspended operations midseason in January 2025 and announced they were seeking a new owner to take over the franchise, citing a conflict with the SIJHL board of governors.
The league announced that it was installing a multi-angle, offline video review system in all seven arenas, which would be used by officials and coaches during live gameplay. The system provided three camera angles, overhead and both goal lines, frame-by-frame navigation, video annotation tools and a bench-side iPad flagging system.
Dean Thibodeau was appointed as the new league commissioner following the departure of Darrin Nicholas, who held the role since 2020.
Bill Salonen, general manager of the 2001–02 Dryden Ice Dogs, and namesake of the SIJHL championship trophy, died on 18 October 2025 at the age of 90.
Regular season
Teams played 48 regular season games, including 8 games against each other team.
|+ style="background:#001B4F; border-top:#BE1E2D 5px solid; border-bottom:#BE1E2D 5px solid"| ! style=width:12em | Team ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Games Played">GP</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Wins">W</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Losses">L</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Overtime Losses">OTL</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Shootout Losses">SOL</abbr title> ! style=width:2.2em | <abbr title="Points">Pts</abbr title> |- align="right" | align=left|Fort Frances Lakers || 48 || 37 || 7 || 2 || 2 || 78 |- align=right | align=left|Dryden Ice Dogs || 48 || 34 || 10 || 3 || 1 || 72 |- align=right | align=left|Thunder Bay North Stars || 48 || 30 || 14 || 3 || 1 || 64 |- align=right | align=left|Kam River Fighting Walleye || 48 || 29 || 13 || 3 || 3 || 64 |- align=right | align=left|Sioux Lookout Bombers || 48 || 24 || 20 || 2 || 2 || 52 |- align=right | align=left|Ironwood Lumberjacks || 48 || 9 || 37 || 1 || 1 || 20 |- align=right | align=left|Red Lake Miners || 48 || 5 || 42 || 0 || 1 || 11
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Post-season
Each round of the playoffs is a single-elimination best-of-seven series. The first-place Fort Frances Lakers had a bye in the first round. The third-place Thunder Bay North Stars defeated the Lakers in the final.
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