Chad Catt commits to U-M
Soo Eagles goalie Chad Catt has committed to play for the University of Michigan Wolverines effective the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Catt carries Eagles to series sweep
The cool Catt flexed his claws once again.
Backed by the scintillating goaltending of Chad Catt, the Soo Eagles upended the visiting Keystone Ice Miners 3-1 on Friday to sweep the first-round, best-of-five, North American Hockey League, North Division playoff series. …[read more]
Eagles can put Keystone on ice
Soo Eagles can move on to the second round of the North American Hockey League playoffs with a win at home tonight. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
As the sun melts the snow and the grass starts to show, hockey is still a go. …[read more]
When the game is not decided on ice
Hockey may be played on ice but much of what makes — or breaks — the game happens away from it. …[read more]
Joe Drago has plenty to say
(ED. NOTE: The following interview with Hockey Canada chairman Joe Drago was conducted by TH Sports Media on behalf of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.) …[read more]
Soo Eagles v. Keystone Ice Miners
They finished a single point apart during the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season.
And now, the Keystone Ice Miners and Soo Eagles will face off in a first-round, best-of-five, NAHL North Division playoff series. …[read more]
Where are they now?
He was a hard-toiling, hard-boiled left winger who worked the corners and became an old Memorial Gardens fan favourite following an Ontario Hockey League trade from the erstwhile Kingston Canadians to the Soo Greyhounds during the 1981-1982 season. …[read more]
Triple crown champions
They are the atom minor hockey champions of Sault Ste. Marie — times three. …[read more]
Mantha shows coaching mettle
A wild weekend ended the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season in stunning fashion.
Desperately needing to sweep two road games from the Soo Eagles and just as desperately needing the Johnstown Tomahawks to lose a home-and-home series with the Keystone Ice Miners to make the playoffs, the Michigan Warriors got all of that. …[read more]
Here ‘n there in the rinks
Soo Greyhounds and North Bay Battalion both scored easy wins in their Ontario Hockey League playoff openers on Friday…Second place is still at stake in the North Division of the North American Hockey League…Soo Thunderbirds and Elliot Lake Wildcats resume their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series tonight. …[read more]
A big Eagle and his two little chums
Rookie forward Jacob Hernandez guested on the most-recent edition of the Soo Eagles Hockey Show, which airs on Tuesdays from 5-6 p.m. on ESPN 1400 Radio.
Later, Hernandez got to meet two young hockey players from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario — brothers Nick and Sam Caruso — who were on hand for the Eagles show, which is broadcast live from the Service Grill on Korah Rd. …[read more]
Fastest game on ice?
It’s similar to hockey but it is not quite the same.
Those who play it — with all due respect to hockey — call it the “fastest game on ice.” …[read more]
Junior hockey relocation, movement
As the junior hockey world turns, teams enter and exit through a revolving door that spins open and shut.
Even the self-proclaimed, best junior loop in the world — the Ontario Hockey League — is not exempt from movement. …[read more]
Soaring Eagles seek second
Soo Eagles are on a mission.
With five games to play in the 2014-2015 North American Hockey League regular season, the Eagles are in sole possession of second place in the six-team North Division. …[read more]
T-Bird teams take two
Soo Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League both scored playoff victories on Saturday. …[read more]
Great North midget finals resume
Soo Thunderbirds can win the Great North Midget Hockey League championship this weekend without leaving home. …[read more]
Eagles in race for second place
Two teams in a race for second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League will face off tonight and Saturday evening at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo. …[read more]
Wicked winds of change
What a difference a few days can make.
The winds of change that blew through Espanola on Monday swept south of the border into Michigan on Tuesday and affected several junior hockey leagues in the process. …[read more]
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]