Sault midget hockey scene
As it now stands, Sault Ste. Marie will be represented by two teams effective the 2017-2018 Great North Midget Hockey League season. But there is a condition to having both a major midget and minor midget entry in the Great North loop. …[read more]
Tyler Bertuzzi, MVP
Grand Rapids Griffins are the champions of the American Hockey League and the top affiliate of the National Hockey League’s Detroit Red Wings got a most valuable player performance from a gritty northern Ontario kid. …[read more]
Vendramin to Sault College
Ryan Vendramin will be staying home this fall to continue his athletic career at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. …[read more]
Big hire for Bradford Rattlers
Former Soo Greyhounds all-star defenseman Ric Jackman, who went on to play on a Stanley Cup championship team, has been named head coach of the Bradford Rattlers of the Greater Metro Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo Eagles hire video coach
As hockey evolves in the statistical sense it is the off-ice preparation through video and analysis that has become a difference maker between winning and losing. …[read more]
New gig for Moe Mantha
Moe Mantha, who has coached in the Ontario Hockey League and Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League among other stops, is returning to the North American Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo boy a CCHL co-owner
Kemptville 73’s of the Central Canada Hockey League have been sold to an ownership group that includes a Sault Ste. Marie native. …[read more]
Sault Major sends an appeal
Sault Major Hockey Association is asking the Great North Midget Hockey League to reconsider its recent decision to deny membership to a minor midget team from the Soo for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
When I think of Windsor
Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League and the city itself will be in the national spotlight as hosts of the 2017 Memorial Cup tournament that begins on May 19. As someone with a long association to Windsor through family and hockey, thoughts are many and memorable related to the town and the Spitfires. …[read more]
Porco, Baber star at Gold Cup
Featuring the top 2001 birth-year players in Ontario, the 2017 edition of the eight-team OHL Gold Cup tournament wrapped up on the weekend. …[read more]
Bertuzzi hockey family, Act 3
They have family and hockey roots that are deep within the gritty northern Ontario town of Sudbury. But at the Ontario Hockey League level it is the Guelph Storm that continues to serve as home to the Bertuzzi family. …[read more]
Blind River to Sault College
Andrew Trowbridge is moving on from three full seasons with the Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to play for the Sault College Cougars effective the 2017-2018 campaign. …[read more]
Brennan Roy piles up points
From the Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League to the erstwhile Abitibi Eskimos of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to the best defenseman in the Ontario Jr. Hockey League as a member of the Cobourg Cougars. …[read more]
Good job, Brandon Grandinetti
A standout in the classroom and a high-end defenseman on the ice, Sault Ste. Marie’s Brandon Grandinetti is headed to new heights. …[read more]
May 1 musings
A little bit of this and a little bit of that. That is how we will head into May and the continuation of a hockey season that never really ends. …[read more]
Sault Major names 8 coaches
Sault Major Hockey Association has confirmed eight of the coaches who will head its elite program teams for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Sault Major to name coaches
Sault Major Hockey Association will soon unveil its head coach selections for the 2017-2018 season including those who will head up the major and (proposed) minor midget teams. …[read more]
Minor midget team for Soo?
Sault Ste. Marie could be home to two teams in the Great North Midget Hockey League effective the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Soo trio of top OHL prospects
Three forwards from Sault Ste. Marie are projected to be taken within the top two rounds of this Saturday’s Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Hall of Sault College hockey
Pending official approval, Sault College Cougars will be a part of the American Collegiate Hockey Association with Division 3 status for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Kings of upcoming OHL draft
Nick Porco. Thomas Harley. Nathan Staois. Three players from the Vaughan Kings minor midgets who could well be selected in the first round of the 2017 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Baber, Porco among the best
A pair of Sault Ste. Marie products with 2001 birth dates who are top prospects for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League under-16 draft are among the recipients who have received minor midget player-of-the-year awards for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
Once a Knight is enough
St. Mary’s Knights of Sault Ste. Marie have won the Northern Ontario Secondary Schools Association ‘AAA’ high school hockey championship. …[read more]
Lakers to NHL via Soo Eagles
Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League have confirmed the signing of Lake Superior State Lakers freshman defenseman Kris Bindulis to a three-year contract. …[read more]
Bronson Kovacs, MVP
Sault Ste. Marie native Bronson Kovacs has been named most valuable player for the first round of the playoffs in the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation’s MOL Liga. …[read more]
North American showcase
Looking to play junior A hockey in Ontario, Canada next season? Well, the newly-formed North American Junior Hockey Showcase has a series of upcoming camps planned. …[read more]
Female hockey coach search
Sault Female Hockey Association is seeking coaches for the 2017-2018 season to lead their Wildcat rep teams in all divisions — novice, atom, pee wee, bantam and midget, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Lambert an Olympique torch
In tandem with new head coach Eric Landry and as the recently-hired associate coach of the Gatineau Olympiques, it has been a winning return to the major junior ranks for Denny Lambert through four games. …[read more]
So far so good for Lambert
As the new associate coach of the Gatineau Olympiques, it has been a triumphant return to the major junior ranks for Denny Lambert thus far. …[read more]
Denny Lambert to Gatineau
Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League have confirmed the appointment of Denny Lambert as associate coach to Éric Landry for the remainder of the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
Rattler rattles off the goals
Veteran Bradford Rattlers forward Rasmus Brunnberg now holds the Greater Metro Jr. Hockey League team’s franchise record for most career goals scored. …[read more]
State of CCHL, junior hockey
It is a 12-team junior loop located in the Ottawa region and the Central Canada Hockey League has forged a good reputation for developing and advancing its players. In all, CCHL teams combine to advance more than 100 players annually. Kevin Abrams is the 56-year old commissioner of the CCHL and via this transcript, he and HockeyNewsNorth.com discuss the state of the league — and junior hockey in general. …[read more]
Lambert leaves Tech for Texas
Eight months after taking a job with The Tech 1921 Ltd. — first-year owners of the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League — Denny Lambert has resigned his position as director of hockey operations. …[read more]
Colizza connection to McGill
When Chrissy Colizza heads to McGill University to play women’s hockey in the fall, she will follow a long line of immediate family members who performed athletically at the famed Montreal school of high learning. …[read more]
U.S. EH!
It can be argued that winning a goal medal should not be gained by virtue of a shootout. It can be argued that the format of deciding victory by shootout should be abolished. But there is no doubt that the 2017 World Junior Hockey Championship gold medal game between Canada and the U.S.A. was one for the ages. …[read more]
Hockey, Canada and Christmas
As an average Canadian who grew up in a hockey town, the game has been a part of me since childhood recollections of road shinny and black-and-white television on Saturday night. …[read more]
Two all-star Rattlers
Sean Werth, general manager of the Bradford Rattlers, has confirmed that two of his players have been selected to play in the Greater Metro Jr. Hockey League all-star game.
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RR Rangers win Silver Stick
Sudbury was the site for a regional portion of the International Silver Stick Hockey Tournament on the weekend and the Root River Rangers of Sault Ste. Marie returned home with a championship banner. …[read more]
CCHL a nice fit in Cornwall
Gone are the days of the erstwhile Cornwall Royals of the Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Russian Rattler puts up points
He is just 17-years old and Russian-born forward Khassan Al-Dzhilaui of the Bradford Rattlers is leading the Greater Metro Jr. Hockey League in scoring with 18 goals, 44 assists, 62 points in 20 games thus far this season. …[read more]
Top 10 of the CCHL
Only nine points separate the top 10 scorers — who are all forwards — in the 12-team Central Canada Hockey League. …[read more]
Hail to the NB atom champs
North Bay major atom AA Trappers returned from the nation’s capital with the gold-medal crown after edging the host Ottawa Silver Seven 2-1 in the title tilt of the weekend’s 12th annual Capital Fall Hockey Classic. …[read more]
WU17 Notebook
On the competition and overall skill level, the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge more than met the lofty expectations that were set for it. …[read more]
Hanging out with Bob McKenzie
He is known as the definitive authority on breaking news and analysis from every corner of the hockey world. And to me, he’s still the same modest, down-to-earth, fun-loving guy who I first met more than 35 years ago when we hung out together while working in the Sault Ste. Marie sports media. …[read more]
World under-17 playoffs set
Quarter-final games are set to go today at the World under-17 Hockey Challenge that is being held in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
My old friend Joe Drago
Besides getting to watch the best under-17 hockey players in the world at the challenge series that is going on in Sault Ste. Marie, the tournament serves as an opportunity to meet up with friends and acquaintances in the game. …[read more]
Bronson Kovacs is world class
HockeyNewsNorth.com has learned that Sault Ste. Marie native Bronson Kovacs will be part of the Hungarian national team that will face off against opponents from Italy, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Korea in a Euro Ice Hockey Challenge tournament to will be held over a five-day span beginning later this week. …[read more]
Bradford to Lakehead
Bradford Rattlers of the Greater Metro Jr. Hockey League have a 10-year history of championship success, not to mention player advancement to various higher levels of play. …[read more]
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. …[read more]