Soo Eagles in school
Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League are well-known within the area for their volunteer work within the community. …[read more]
MWJHL joins USPHL
The United States Premier Hockey League has confirmed expansion of its Midwest junior division for the 2015-2016 season.
The division will now include the membership of the entire Midwest Jr. Hockey League — Alpena Flyers, Decatur Blaze, Detroit Fighting Irish, Michigan Ice Dogs, Motor City Monarchs, Soo Firehawks and Traverse City Hounds. …[read more]
Junior hockey footprints
The landscape shifts from season to season.
The footprints vary from league to league.
Such is life in the junior hockey world where change is inevitable and uncertainty is a certainty. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets take out Trappers
Whew, that was close.
Soo Thunderbirds ousted the visiting North Bay Trappers 3-2 in double overtime on Tuesday to win the second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series three games to two. …[read more]
Great North showdown tonight
It has all come down to one game to decide the second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series between the Soo Thunderbirds and North Bay Trappers. …[read more]
Soo Eagles get away with one
Soo Eagles stole a win on Saturday night.
In front of 776 witnesses at Pullar Stadium, the Eagles pulled off a 4-1 theft of the Springfield Jr. Blues despite being out-shot 43-21 by the visitors. …[read more]
Two goalies, 97 saves
It was a goaltenders duel at its finest on Saturday night.
To be sure, David Krejcik of the Traverse City Hounds and George Hill of the Detroit Fighting Irish put on a Midwest Jr. Hockey League goalie clinic. …[read more]
Birds, Eagles in home nests
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League both have home games tonight. …[read more]
Pung pings Eagles past Springfield
Soo Eagles have moved into sole possession of second spot in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, two points up on the Keystone Ice Miners. …[read more]
Eagles have the Blues at home
Winners of four successive games, the hard-skating Soo Eagles will play host to the Springfield Jr. Blues this evening in the first of three games in as many nights between the North American Hockey League North Division foes.
Game times are 7 p.m. tonight, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday. …[read more]
Ryan Vendramin, player of the month
Sault Ste. Marie native Ryan Vendramin is the Greater Ontario Jr. Hockey League’s player-of-the-month for February. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
Soo Eagles play with an edge…Two expansion-team success stories…A star centre is back in the Ontario Hockey League… …[read more]
T-Birds up two on Trappers
Soo Thunderbirds have taken a two games to none lead on the North Bay Trappers in their second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Eagles win fourth straight
Soo Eagles have moved into a tie for second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League.
Backed by a sharp, 36-save outing from goalie Chad Catt, the Eagles completed a weekend sweep of the visiting Michigan Warriors on Saturday with a 3-1 triumph before close to 700 fans at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets draw first blood
Soo Thunderbirds used home ice this afternoon to defeat the North Bay Trappers in the opener of their Great North Midget Hockey League semi-final playoff series. …[read more]
Efficient Eagles swoop to victory
From the first puck drop, Soo Eagles were in high flight on Friday night.
Playing with energy in front of effervescent goalie Chad Catt, the Eagles maintained third place in the torrid North Division of the North American Hockey League with an efficient 4-1 win over the visiting Michigan Warriors before close to 700 fans at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
Michigan Warriors v. Soo Eagles
As the playoff race continues in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, Soo Eagles will play host to the Michigan Warriors tonight (7:30) and Saturday evening (7:00) at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets home to North Bay
Fresh from a first-round bye, Soo Thunderbirds will begin the second round of the Great North Midget Hockey League playoffs with a pair of home games this weekend.
The Thunderbirds will play host to the North Bay Trappers on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Essar Centre to open the best-of-five series. …[read more]
Red Wings v. Flint oldtimers
Popular goalie Eddie Mio and forwards Mickey Redmond, Joey Kocur, John Ogrodnick and Darren McCarty head a list of Detroit Red Wings/National Hockey League alumni who will face off against a team of erstwhile Flint Generals and other minor pro oldtimers in a Friday night fundraiser game at Perani Arena.
The now 61-year old Mio grew up across the river from Detroit in Windsor, Ont. …[read more]
GMHL continues to grow
It wasn’t supposed to last.
Very few — myself included — took it seriously and many of us predicted its quick demise.
But the junior A level Greater Metro Hockey League, which was founded in 2006 and began play with seven teams, has stood the test of time while continuing to grow. …[read more]
Best of the border
Today’s tour takes us from one side of the International Bridge to the other as we check in on the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Detroit Fighting Irish to Soo Eagles
It’s official.
Soo Eagles of the Tier 2 North American Hockey League have signed 1995 birth-year forward Jacob Hernandez from the Tier 3 Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Around the leagues
An alphabetical tour from the Canadian International Hockey League to the Great North Midget Hockey League to the Midwest Jr. Hockey League to the North American Hockey League to the North American 3 Hockey League to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to the Ontario Hockey League to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association: …[read more]
Too close to call in NAHL North
Soo Eagles, who are part of a frantic race for a North American Hockey League playoff spot, are on the road to Johnstown this weekend for two games with the Tomahawks.
Heading into action this weekend, the Eagles have 43 points in 43 games from a record of 21-21-1. …[read more]
Eagles get Catt
Soo Eagles have acquired 1994 birth-year goalie Chad Catt from the Aberdeen Wings in a North American Hockey League deal that was finalized just before Friday’s midnight trade deadline. …[read more]
RR’s rumour mill
Today’s tour of the mill begins on the Ontario Hockey League coaching circuit and shifts to state-of-the-franchise talk within the North American Hockey League, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles tender Tonkovich
Soo Eagles have signed a prime prospect from the Pittsburgh area to a North American Hockey League tender for the 2015-2016 season.
Eagles coach-general manager Bruno Bragagnolo has confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com that the Soo has tendered Austin Tonkovich, a strapping 6-foot-1, 185 pound, 1997 birth-year left winger. …[read more]
Aurora’s bring home a championship
Aurora’s pee wee major hockey team from Sault Ste. Marie recently returned from Detroit as champions of the Motown Cup Tournament. …[read more]
NAHL Central showdown
Two teams battling for the fourth-and-final playoff spot in the Central Division of the North American Hockey League will face off on Friday night. …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
It’s official. The Ontario Hockey League is moving Michigan towns from Flint to Plymouth…Here and then and around the rinks… …[read more]
Net losses cost Eagles
Soo Eagles matched the top team in the 24-member North American Hockey League stride-for-stride this weekend only to drop back-to-back home games to the Janesville Jets.
Simply put, Janesville got better goaltending in upending the Eagles by 6-1 and 6-4 scores. …[read more]
Eagles home to high-flying Jets
It’s back-to-back big tests for the Soo Eagles.
The Eagles, who are in pursuit of second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League, are home to the top-seeded Janesville Jets tonight (7:30) and Saturday night (7:00) at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
Hernandez hangs in with Eagles
So far, so good.
Detroit Fighting Irish forward Jacob Hernandez will continue his audition with the Soo Eagles next week. …[read more]
Eagles deal with Odessa
Soo Eagles have completed a four-player exchange with the Odessa Jackalopes.
In a North American Hockey League trade finalized late Tuesday, the Eagles have acquired hard-hitting, 1995 birth-year defenceman Jake Hamilton and energetic, 1995 birth-year forward Leo Lumm from Odessa. …[read more]
Little Caesars Winter Classic
Outdoor hockey is headed this way.
The second annual Little Caesars Winter Classic is coming to Sault Ste. Marie in mid-February. …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
If rumours do make the junior hockey world go around then the old mill is really turning.
Rampant rumours are running through the (in alphabetical order) Canadian International Hockey League, Midwest Jr. Hockey League, North American Hockey League and Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Six Soo teams win games
Six Sault Ste. Marie-based teams — representing six separate hockey leagues — all won their games on Friday night. …[read more]
Irish goalie and the Eagles nest
A second member of the Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League has been invited to attend a week of practice with the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles have eyes on second spot
First place may be out of reach for the Soo Eagles but finishing second will mean home-ice advantage come playoff time. …[read more]
Triumphant tale of T-Bird midgets
To be sure, major midget hockey has made a positive return to Sault Ste. Marie following a one-year absence that many feel should never have happened in the first place.
At any rate, gone are the Soo North Stars and their multiple Great North Midget Hockey League championships and in their place are the Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
WHAM Warriors are mighty mites
WHAM Warriors competed in the January Freeze Hockey Tournament in Bay City, Michigan on the weekend — and the mite division team of seven-year old skaters from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario came away with the silver medal. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets maintain first place
Soo Thunderbirds took two of three games from the visiting Nickel City Sons this weekend at John Rhodes Community Centre. …[read more]
Soo Eagles are about opportunity
It’s part of a never-ending search to try to improve the hockey team.
And at the same time, it allows the staff the opportunity to evaluate a player up close. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets home for three
In first place in the seven-team Great North Midget Hockey League with 41 points from a record of 20-7-1, Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the fourth-seeded Nickel City Sons tonight, Saturday evening and Sunday morning. …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
Soo Greyhounds may have assembled a dream team but will they awake as champions of the Ontario Hockey League in May?…Sudbury Wolves of the OHL need to get it right when hiring their next head coach…The coach-general manager of the Detroit Fighting Irish of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League is a fan of the style of play of the Canadian International Hockey League… …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
Canada has returned to the top of the world junior hockey summit…There are hockey moms and then there is this hockey mom who owns two junior teams and manages the arena that both play out of…Here and there and around the rinks we go… …[read more]
Thunderbird teams in first place
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League are both in first place with play underway in the 2015 portion of this season’s schedule. …[read more]
Christmas Jamboree champs
Hail to the overtime heroes.
It took three OT periods but Prouse Motors edged Elks Lodge for a Christmas present to remember. …[read more]
Eagles swoop to road sweep
Buoyed by the goal-scoring of Mitch Vanderburg and backed by the goal-tending of Jack Berry, Soo Eagles fashioned a weekend road sweep of the Springfield Jr. Blues. …[read more]