In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian Hockey League cancelled the event in 2022.

[3] However, the NCAA changed its position and decided that CHL players were no longer ineligible as of the 2025–26 season.

[4][5] The decision was made after a class action was filed on behalf of a player who was declared ineligible after having played two exhibition games in the OHL when he was 16 years old.

The organization also provides many scholarships and bursaries for its players who exemplify extraordinary efforts and community involvement.

The new organization wanted standard contracts for all players, consistent dollar amounts for development fees paid by professional leagues to sign junior players, and for the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association to work together on a common drafting program to eliminate bidding wars.

The league also proposed to allow some players under professional contracts to continue playing in junior hockey.

[7][8] Ontario's commissioner Tubby Schmalz defended the validity of the constitution, despite a challenge from Alan Eagleson that it violated antitrust laws in Canada and the United States.

[9] On July 30, 2019, Dan MacKenzie was announced as the new full-time president as of September 2019, taking over for David Branch.

[10][11][12] In March 2020, the CHL and its constituent leagues cancelled the remainder of the 2019–20 regular seasons, playoffs and the 2020 Memorial Cup, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America.

The QMJHL was the only CHL league to play a full season with playoffs, albeit with disruptions and the use of bubbles due to public health orders in Quebec and travel restrictions in Atlantic Canada.

Due to public health orders in Ontario, the OHL indefinitely delayed, and later cancelled the 2020–21 season.

The CHL/USA Prospects Challenge is an annual series between the CHL and the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian Hockey League cancelled the event in 2022.

In the regular season, Canadian Hockey League also presents ten annual awards.