The Maple Leafs fan in me
Let me begin by duly noting that I am not one who one would call a big National Hockey League fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. …[read more]
Team Canada X 3 in the Soo
Rosters for the three Canadian squads — Team Canada Black, Team Canada Red and Team Canada White — that will represent the nation at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Sault Ste. Marie have been finalized. …[read more]
Big numbers! OHL to CIS
The numbers do not lie. No less than 198 graduates of the Ontario Hockey League are beginning the 2016-2017 season with Canadian Interuniversity Sport programs as they pursue goals — on the ice and in the classroom — via their respective OHL scholarship packages. …[read more]
Writer’s selection: Hot and not
Who’s hot and who’s not as we peruse the Ontario Hockey League, the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Central Canada Hockey League: …[read more]
Ashton Calder clicks hat trick
Michigan Soo native and Lake Superior State Lakers recruit Ashton Calder is off to a sparkling start with the Surrey Eagles of the British Columbia Hockey League. …[read more]
Testing the PW major Hounds
Soo Jr. Greyhounds of the pee wee major AAA, Northern Ontario Hockey League, are home for four games against two high-end, non-conference opponents this weekend. …[read more]
Piling up points in Pembroke
Big left winger Alex Gilmour is having a big season thus far for the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Central Canada Hockey League. …[read more]
CCHL path to higher ranks
It is a tidy 12-team junior loop centrally located in the Ottawa region and the Ontario-based Central Canada Hockey League has forged a top-shelf reputation for developing and advancing its players. …[read more]
Doug Gilmour’s son in NOJHL
Tyson Gilmour, who is a son to retired National Hockey League legend Dougie Gilmour, will play in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League this season. …[read more]
New gig for Jerry Lortie
Having served a lengthy apprenticeship as an assistant coach with the Soo Thunder, Jerry Lortie is taking over as head coach of the major bantam, Northern Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
PW Hounds begin title defense
Soo Jr. Greyhounds of the pee wee major AAA, Northern Ontario Hockey League, are home for three games this weekend as they play host to the Sudbury Jr. Wolves to begin the 2016-2017 regular season. …[read more]
Another Red Wing with Spirit
As second-year general manager Dave Drinkill carefully positions the Saginaw Spirit to climb the Western Conference ladder, the front office of the 15-year old Ontario Hockey League team has added another Stanley Cup champion. …[read more]
Jimmy D shows his Spirit
When Little Caesars pizza baron Mike Ilitch bought the Detroit Red Wings back in 1982, one of his first moves was to hire Jimmy Devellano as general manager of what was then a downtrodden National Hockey League franchise. …[read more]
The changing game of hockey
Man oh man have there been changes. If only I could count the number of ways that hockey has changed in the more than 40 years that I have been writing and talking about the sport. …[read more]
New job for Kevin Cain
One of the good guys in the game, Kevin Cain has a long association with hockey, particularly the junior level, where his stellar record of championship success speaks for itself. …[read more]
SPWHL names select coaches
As the Soo Pee Wee Hockey League moves forward with its select team program for the 2016-2017 season, it has named coaches for the various levels. …[read more]
Contract renewal for Kowalsky
Rick Kowalsky, who captained the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League to the 1993 Memorial Cup championship, has signed a two-year contract extension to continue as head coach of the Albany Devils of the American Hockey League. …[read more]
Stage set for world U-17 series
Eight teams will look to strike gold in Sault Ste. Marie when the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge will be staged from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5. …[read more]
New gig for Francis Anzalone
Shreveport Mudbugs, an expansion team set to begin play in the North American Hockey League this fall, have hired Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. native Francis Anzalone as associate coach. …[read more]
Little Caesars gives back
Mike Flammia, owner-operator of two Little Caesars franchise outlets in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has been involved in a number of community projects in the three years that he has been in business. …[read more]
It’s how you play-by-play
Listening to Dan Dickerson so expertly and casually broadcast another Detroit Tigers baseball game on Sunday reminded me of how many well-called Ontario Hockey League matches that I have tuned in to on the radio over the years. …[read more]
Owen Headrick makes NACS list
Garden River First Nation product Owen Headrick, fresh from an eye-opening season as a freshman defenseman with the Lake Superior State University Lakers, has been ranked as a potential late-round pick for the upcoming National Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Howe I became a Red Wings fan
I was born in 1952 and have been a National Hockey League fan for as long as I can remember, all the while living a double life. …[read more]
Father, son and the big picture
Jeff Brown knows what it’s like to play and stay in the National Hockey League, having starred in more than 800 games at the highest level of competition. …[read more]
Denny Lambert talks T-Birds, Tech
He is settling into his new job at The Tech 1921 Ltd. as the director of hockey operations for the company that has taken over the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and has plans to start a school-based athletic academy by the fall of 2017. …[read more]
Matt Murray rises to the occasion
Through four up-and-down Ontario Hockey League seasons with the Soo Greyhounds, Matt Murray provided a few scattered snapshots that he had the makings of being a professional goalie. …[read more]
Headrick would be an NHL steal
His name does not appear on any official rankings chart but I am of the notion that Lake Superior State University Lakers freshman Owen Headrick would be an absolute steal for any National Hockey League team willing to take a flyer on the 1997 birth-year defenseman at next month’s draft. …[read more]
Hound development camp details
Three Sault Ste. Marie products will be among the 31 prospects who will take part in a development camp that is being hosted by the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League this weekend. …[read more]
Trenton trims T-Birds in title tilt
Trenton Golden Hawks of the Ontario Jr. Hockey League have dethroned the defending Dudley-Hewitt Cup, Central Canada Tournament champion Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
T-Birds v. Trenton for DHC title
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will seek a second successive Dudley-Hewitt Cup, Central Canada Tournament title tonight when they face off against the Trenton Golden Hawks of the Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Dudley-Hewitt Cup winding up
It’s down to two games to decide the winner of the Dudley-Hewitt Cup, Central Canada Tournament with three of four teams still in the running for the junior A hockey championship. …[read more]
Good scouts trust their intuition
The good scouts are the ones who look beyond the obvious. The good scouts are the ones who do their homework and rely on their own intuition rather than just going with the flow. …[read more]
KBX minor hockey alternative
EDITOR’S NOTE: HockeyNewsNorth.com has received the following information document from KBX Selects of Sault Ste. Marie. KBX Selects is owned and operated by Sault Ste. Marie native Ken Belanger, who played three seasons as a left winger in the Ontario Hockey League with the Ottawa 67’s and Guelph Storm and appeared in 260 National Hockey League games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders, Boston Bruins and Los Angeles Kings. …[read more]
Hendo and the boys
Jamie Henderson is running a skills development program that is going on for bantam-aged hockey players and older at Community First Soo Pee Wee Arena. …[read more]
Lambert to lead Tech hockey program
The Tech 1921 Ltd. is expanding its new-endeavour, Sault Ste. Marie hockey holdings to the extent that it is hiring the reputable Denny Lambert as its full-time director. …[read more]
Can’t the kids just play hockey?
As some of the dust settles from the ongoing dispute between minor hockey factions in Sault Ste. Marie, one has to wonder if the adults who played any part in the debacle will pause for a minute and think about who the game is supposed to be for at this level. …[read more]
Speers, White to Albany Devils
Albany Devils of the American Hockey League have signed forward Blake Speers and defenseman Colton White of the Ontario Hockey League Soo Greyhounds to amateur tryout agreements for the remainder of the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Atom minor AA tryouts
A healthy group of 2007 birth-year skaters are signed up for this weekend’s Soo Jr. Greyhounds atom minor AA hockey tryouts. …[read more]
Minor hockey debacle in S.S. Marie
There is a toxic element that is having a chaotic and disruptive effect on minor hockey in Sault Ste. Marie. And in this case, the Soo Pee Wee Hockey League stands accused as the alleged culprit. …[read more]
Roadhouse women among the best
The Roadhouse, a women’s team from Sault Ste. Marie, made it to the finals of the CARHA World Cup of Hockey Tournament that is being held in Windsor, Ont. …[read more]
Rick Kowalsky, coach-of-the-year
Rick Kowalsky, who captained the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League to the 1993 Memorial Cup championship as an energetic, inspirational right winger, has been named American Hockey League coach-of-the-year for the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Latest on the Jr. Greyhounds
Six coaches have been appointed by Sault Minor Hockey to assume bench boss duties with the Soo Jr. Greyhounds rep program for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
PW minor Hounds take NOHL title
Devin Mauro lit the lamp three times as the Soo Jr. Greyhounds skated to a 7-1 decision over the Nickel City Sons on Sunday to bring home the Northern Ontario AAA Hockey League pee wee minor championship. …[read more]
Soo PW minors on verge of title
Soo Jr. Greyhounds pee wee minors are one victory away from winning the Northern Ontario AAA Hockey League championship. …[read more]
Back on the hockey beat
After spending parts of five days in Ottawa at the Tim Hortons Brier, Canadian men’s curling championships, I am back home on the hockey beat. …[read more]
Sault women are Ontario’s best
Coach Dominic Sacco and his Sault College Cougars are Ontario Colleges Committee on Campus Recreation women’s hockey champions for the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Want to play for the Jr. Greyhounds?
Players who aspire to play within the Soo Jr. Greyhounds rep program for the 2016-2017 season — this message is directed towards you and your parents. …[read more]
Famed trio: Lambert, Simon, Turco
Denny Lambert was never drafted into the Ontario Hockey League or the National Hockey League but he made it to both levels and played with distinction. …[read more]
Youth hockey: expensive, priceless
Times have certainly changed from the days of playing competitive hockey on outdoor rinks and in local arenas within a youth house-league system. …[read more]