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]
Second-half scrabble
It’s the so-called second half of the junior hockey season, the 2015 portion of the 2014-2015 menu.
In some cases, the haves and the have-nots have already been identified.
In other instances, places and positions are up for grabs and player profiles are being touched up. …[read more]
Eagles exchange Euro defencemen
Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League have dealt Latvian-born defenceman Kristofers Bindulis to the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League and replaced him with Slovakian-born defender Patrik Koch. …[read more]
Tuneup Tuesday
A schedule has been released for next week’s Canadian International Hockey League showcase tournament that is slated for Kalkaska…A member of the CIHL’s Batchewana Attack is skating with the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League…It’s been a season to forget thus far for the Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League… …[read more]
Soo Eagles alumni update
This is the fifth season of existence for the Soo Eagles under the current ownership regime that includes coach-general manager Bruno Bragagnolo.
Through two seasons in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and now in their third term as members of the North American Hockey League, the Eagles have moved more than 25 players on to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Ontario Hockey League ranks. …[read more]
Soo has three first-place teams
Sault Ste. Marie is a town of first-place junior hockey teams.
Soo Greyhounds are in first place in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League.
Soo Thunderbirds are in first place in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
Batchewana Attack is in first place in the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Merry Christmas
As we take a break from the game of hockey and celebrate the birth of Christ, I want to take a moment to wish the best of the holiday season to those who support HockeyNewsNorth.com as advertisers and/or readers. …[read more]
Thunderbirds, Attack both win
Two-for-two in the Soo.
Sault Ste. Marie’s two Junior A hockey teams both scored home-ice victories on Tuesday night. …[read more]
Monday musings
Today we relay the stories of an Ontario Hockey League coach who recently won his 600th career game and a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League coach who has issues with the leadership and character of his team. We also check in with a goal-scoring, penalty-minute leader in the Midwest Jr. Hockey League and a new goalie in the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Some Saturday night winners
Checking out a few games from Saturday involving teams that we follow in the Ontario Hockey League, North American Hockey League and Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo teams are winners
Friday was a winning night for Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League, Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League, Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Batchewana Attack of the Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
What the puck is going on?
The recent sale of the Perani Arena and Event Centre in Flint figures to lead to the winds of change affecting more than one junior hockey team and league. …[read more]
Just asking…just saying
I have a few questions to ask. I have a few things on my mind. …[read more]
Monday musings
Today’s tour takes us from the North American Hockey League to the Canadian International Hockey League over to the Midwest Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Here’s to you, Joe Drago
He is one of the good guys of the game. They don’t come much better than this guy.
The venerable Joe Drago has been acclaimed as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors for Hockey Canada. …[read more]
Monday musings
We begin today in the Ontario Hockey League and make subsequent stops in various other junior outposts on both sides of the International Bridge. …[read more]
Good news for Soo crews
Four junior teams from the Sault Ste. Marie area — Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League, Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, Batchewana Attack of the Canadian International Hockey League and Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League — are all at or near the top of the standings at this stage of the 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Soo Eagles home to Johnstown
With 27 points from a record of 13-10-1 — good for second place in the North Division of the North American Hockey League — Soo Eagles play host to the Johnstown Tomahawks tonight and Sunday. …[read more]
Thursday thoughts
As the winds of change and gusts of winter blow through the Canadian International Hockey League, it is weathering the storm with assistance from friends in Michigan…Parity is being personified in the North American Hockey League…Here and there and around the rinks. …[read more]
Wildcat girls wow ’em in Detroit
Sault Ste. Marie Bantam A Lady Wildcats were in Detroit on the weekend as part of the 2014 Bauer World Invite Hockey Tournament.
It was a survival of the fittest for the Wildcats, who played six games over a three-day span — and then returned home to the Soo with the championship. …[read more]
Caruso rounding into top form
He is close — very close, he says — to being at full strength.
Just a summer removed from shoulder surgery, 1995 birth-year defenceman Michael Caruso returned to the lineup of the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League in mid-October, several weeks ahead of schedule. …[read more]
Monday musings
Soo Thunderbirds and Kirkland Lake Gold Miners are waging war for first place in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…Make that two players who have left the Blind River Beavers of the NOJHL for the new Canadian International Hockey League…The CIHL is in the midst of major change and the Batchewana Attack just keeps on winning…And the MC Monarchs of the Midwest Jr. Hockey League boast an ultimate trio of skaters. …[read more]
Soo teams win
Soo Greyhounds and Soo Eagles both scored home-ice victories on Friday while Soo Thunderbirds won on the road. …[read more]
Friday’s finest
A rookie skater has left the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League for the Canadian International Hockey League…Here and there and around the junior hockey rinks… …[read more]
Soo Eagles home for three this week
Soo Eagles take a record of 10-8, good for 20 points, into a three-game home set with the visiting Springfield Jr. Blues this week.
Games are slated for Thursday (7:00), Friday (7:30) and Saturday (7:00) evenings at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo. …[read more]
Monday musings
Good and bad of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…A night of firsts for the Lake Superior State University Lakers…Here and there and around the rinks… …[read more]
Twin Soo action
There is junior hockey action aplenty on both sides of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie this weekend. …[read more]
Kalkaska on the road
Coach Krzysztof Oliwa is taking his Kalkaska Rhinos on the road for four games in four days against teams from the Minnesota Jr. Hockey League.
The road trip begins tonight and concludes on Monday afternoon. …[read more]
Self-serving agendas
They proclaim to be in it “for the kids” and the “love of the game.”
And while that may be true of some, there are those involved at the grassroots and junior hockey levels who have self-serving agendas. …[read more]
My guest tonight
He has played the game at the Ontario Hockey League and Atlantic University levels.
He has been an assistant coach in the OHL and a head coach in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, both while maintaining a full-time job in the criminal justice system.
He is 55-years old and he still coaches — for the love at the game — at the pee wee level. …[read more]
Monday musings
On the Ontario Hockey League hot seat…High and low in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League…Here and there and around the rinks… …[read more]