French River to Halifax
Caleb Rich is moving up from the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to the Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed.
The 5-foot-11, 175-pound, 1999 birth-year forward has signed with the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL after beginning the 2016-2017 campaign in the NOJHL with the French River Rapids.
Rich, who hails from the North Bay area town of Callander, had 9 goals, 7 assists, 16 points in 15 games with French River this season.
The skilled youngster played in the NOJHL for French River as a 16-year old rookie in 2015-2016 and had an impressive 18 goals, 30 assists, 48 points in 53 games on what was an expansion, last-place Rapids team.
Congratulations Caleb. One of the bright spots on French River. He played hard every shift. Its nice to see that hard work pay off.
Makes you wonder how on earth Halifax found him. Quite a change of scenery for him!
It’s simple how they found him, he’s one of the best players of the nojhl plus they have a coach that has more contacts to move players to the next level than anybody else in the league.
His Coach definately has alot of contacts to move players to the next level, but to say he’s one of the best in the nojhl , don’t know. Best kid on the French River squad, probably top 20 in the nojhl this year . Seems like a nice kid, hope he proves himself and does well.