Soo major atom AA champs
Following a recent title tilt triumph at the Northern Ontario Hockey Association Tournament of Champions, the Soo Major Atom AA Jr. Greyhounds will represent the NOHA at the Ontario Hockey Federation play-downs.
…[read more]Soo Indians coaching change
The AAA major midget Soo Indians of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association have a new coach. Actually, the new coach is an old coach.
…[read more]Team NOHA finishes 2-2
Four games at this week’s OHL Cup in Toronto produced a 2-2 record for Team NOHA. Representing the Northern Ontario Hockey Association and made up of players from the Great North Midget Hockey League, Team NOHA was one of 20 entries in the Ontario Hockey League-sponsored event.
…[read more]Team NOHA goes to 2-1
Team NOHA, representing the Northern Ontario Hockey Association and made up of players from the Great North Midget Hockey League, has improved its record to 2-1-0 at the OHL Cup tournament.
…[read more]AAA PW Hounds in finals
A victory in the fifth-and-deciding game of the semi-finals has put Soo Pee Wee Minor AAA Jr. Greyhounds into the Northern Ontario Hockey Association finals against the North Bay Trappers.
…[read more]Korah crew came through
All in all it was a good hockey season — team and player-wise — for the venerable high school from the west end of Sault Ste. Marie.
…[read more]Soo high school to NOJHL
Playing high school hockey in Sault Ste. Marie has proven to be far from the end of the line for a number of performers who have managed to move up an ice level over the years.
…[read more]Pee Wee Major AA champs
They are the Northern Ontario Hockey Association tournament of champions from Sault Ste. Marie. They are the Soo Pee Wee Major AA Jr. Greyhounds.
…[read more]Korah corralled in OT
Korah Colts of Sault Ste. Marie came within an overtime goal of returning home with an AA level, Northern Ontario Secondary Schools Association championship.
…[read more]One of those Knights
It has been said and written that anything can happen in a one-game final to decide a championship. Well, the Sault Ste. Marie high school hockey champion St. Mary’s Knights are proof positive of that notion.
…[read more]It shouldn’t be about the refs
I watch a lot of hockey. It is what I do. I get to write and talk and make a nice living from a game that I first grew up watching on an old black and white television at mom and dad’s house on Maple St. in Sault Ste. Marie.
…[read more]Wearing the silver medals
Soo Pee Wee Minor AA Jr. Greyhounds returned home today wearing silver medals from the Northern Ontario Hockey Association tournament of champions.
…[read more]NOSSA hockey lineup
Four high school hockey teams — two from the host Sault Ste. Marie program and two from Greater Sudbury — will take to the ice on Monday and Tuesday of next week for the Northern Ontario Secondary Schools Association AAA level championship tournament.
…[read more]Championship Knights
Oh, what Knights these are. Make that four Sault Ste. Marie high school hockey championships in succession for the St. Mary’s Knights.
…[read more]High school award winners
Among other award winners, Korah Colts goalie Dawson Hunter has been named the most valuable player from the four teams that comprise the high school hockey program in Sault Ste. Marie.
…[read more]Cougars roar to nationals
Sault College Cougars have earned a spot at next month’s Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association national men’s championship tournament.
…[read more]Gold for Sault Wildcats
Good as gold. Make that three championships for the Sault Pee Wee A Wildcats girls hockey team thus far this 2018-2019 season.
…[read more]Korah off to title tilt
It will be the second seed Korah Colts who will try to dethrone the reigning Sault Ste. Marie high school hockey champion St. Mary’s Knights.
…[read more]Come up and see the north
Contrary to what many of the scouts in southern Ontario might think, we do have indoor hockey rinks in northern Ontario towns such as Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, New Liskeard, Timmins and Kapuskasing. Not only that, we also have our share of good hockey players up north.
…[read more]Soo high school dates
The four teams that make up the high school hockey program in Sault Ste. Marie will begin the playoff round next week.
…[read more]Nic Sicoly gets school deal
Sault Ste. Marie native Nic Sicoly has a commitment to play at Mount Royal University in Calgary effective the 2019-2020 season, Hockey News North has confirmed.
…[read more]Jr. A player fees maxed out
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following guest column by Kevin Cain of Cain Hockey Management represents the views of the author and not necessarily those of Hockey News North.
…[read more]Hobey Baker nomination
Sophomore defenseman Brennan Kapcheck of American International College has been nominated for the Hobey Baker Award which annually goes to the top Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association player.
…[read more]Soo high school scene
The four teams that comprise Sault Ste. Marie’s high school hockey program are less than two weeks away from the start of the playoffs.
…[read more]Lady Cougars take two
Sault College Cougars women’s hockey team roared to a pair of road victories over the Adrian College Bulldogs over the weekend.
…[read more]Love of the game … love it
This is just another snapshot from Canada’s great game. In this instance, it is just another Saturday night at Community First Soo Pee Wee Arena.
…[read more]Scouting a Soo Indians goalie
He has plenty of junior hockey eligibility ahead of him. And there are scouts in the Ontario Hockey League and North American Hockey League who are taking notes on Gabe Rosek, a 2001 birth year goalie with the AAA midget Soo Indians.
…[read more]Soo alters midget program
Sault Ste. Marie will be represented by one team, rather than two, in the Great North Midget Hockey League for the 2019-2020 season, Hockey News North has confirmed.
…[read more]Atom AA Hounds level it up
Playing up a level resulted in a credible showing for a Sault Ste. Marie team at the International Silver Stick Hockey Tournament that was held in Sarnia on the weekend.
…[read more]Twin bill at the Pullar
Hockey fans in the Michigan Soo will be treated to a rare doubleheader on Saturday night at venerable Pullar Stadium.
…[read more]Tournament of Champions
More than 40 major and minor midget teams — including the Sault Major Thunderbirds and Soo Minor Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League — will be in Peterborough this week for the prestigious Steve Richey Tournament of Champions.
…[read more]Hurrah to novice Hounds
Soo Jr. Greyhounds have skated home with the novice AA division championship from the prestigious International Silver Stick Hockey Tournament that wrapped up in Pelham on the weekend.
…[read more]Split for Soo bantam team
Northern Chiropractic and Physiotherapy Knights, who are a bantam A level hockey team from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, split a pair of games with a mid Michigan opponent on Saturday.
…[read more]A first for Austin Holmes
It took Timmins, Ontario product Austin Holmes only a few days into 2019 to score his first goal as a member of the Kanata Lasers of the Central Canada Hockey League. …[read more]
Merry Christmas …
An outdoor hockey game on Christmas Eve. That is just one way that members of my family and I are celebrating the holiday season. …[read more]
Division 1 deal for Sault girl
She is only 14 years of age. But it speaks to the hockey and academic abilities of Ariella Merlino that the Sault Ste. Marie girl has already secured a Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association scholarship effective the 2022-2023 season. …[read more]
Sign up for Soo ball hockey
There is a ball hockey tournament that will be held in Sault Ste. Marie on February 2 as part of Ontario Winter Carnival Bon Soo. …[read more]
Sault College keeps winning
Put another win in the books for the Sault College Cougars. Sault College completed a weekend sweep of its American Collegiate Hockey Association rival Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals on Saturday with a 7-6 victory at GFL Memorial Gardens. …[read more]
Cougars cuff Cardinals
Sault College Cougars scored six first period goals and roared to a 13-3 take down of the visiting Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals in American Collegiate Hockey Association action from Friday. …[read more]
Sault College moving up
With success comes a promotion. Hockey News North has confirmed that the American Collegiate Hockey Association has granted a request of the Sault College Cougars to move up a level from Division 3 to Division 2 effective the 2019-2020 season. …[read more]
Mission to RPI Engineers
Highly-regarded, 2002 birth year forward Max Itagaki has made an early commitment to play Division 1 hockey at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. …[read more]
Sault College at the Gardens
GFL Memorial Gardens in downtown Sault Ste. Marie is the slated site for a pair of weekend games involving the Sault College Cougars men’s hockey team. …[read more]
A better program for our kids
We are just about halfway through hockey season here in Sault Ste. Marie and without getting into specifics, there have been positives and negatives that have gone on. …[read more]
NOJHL boosts Sault College
Three of the top point producers on the high scoring Sault College Cougars of the American Collegiate Hockey Association are recent graduates of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Sault College draws a crowd
As much as he was impressed with the play of his team, Sault College Cougars head coach Mike Hall was wowed with the overwhelming fan support on the weekend. …[read more]
Cougars finish off Grizzlies
Sault College Cougars completed a weekend sweep of the visiting Oakland University Grizzlies in Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association action from today. …[read more]
Cougars cuff visiting Grizzlies
Sault College Cougars roared past the visiting Oakland University Grizzlies by a resounding 10-2 margin in American Collegiate Hockey Association action from Friday. …[read more]
Roads of northeastern Ontario
There are a number of certainties pertaining to the winter months in northeastern Ontario. One is that towns such as Sault Ste. Marie, Blind River, Espanola, Sudbury, North Bay, Timmins, Iroquois Falls, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane and Hearst will get their share of snow. …[read more]
Feeling the Chill
Coulee Region Chill of the North American 3 Hockey League is not only off to a solid start to the 2018-2019 season but its top two scorers have future Division 3, National Collegiate Athletic Association commitments. …[read more]
Don’t love it? Don’t play it
I get it that at the professional level, playing hockey is more about earning a living than it is for the love of the game. But at the grassroots level and up to and including junior hockey, methinks the game should always be played for the love and the passion of it. …[read more]
Another night at the rink
It was just another Saturday night at Community First Soo Pee Wee Arena. Then again, it is one of my favourite ways to spend a Saturday evening during hockey season in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Soo boy Hungary for success
He was a top defenseman in the Great North Midget Hockey League, the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Ontario Jr. Hockey League who went on to become a team captain at the National Collegiate Athletic Association level. Now 28 years old, Sault Ste. Marie product Bronson Kovacs continues to play the game with professional passion overseas in Hungary. …[read more]
Jr. team in Iroquois Falls?
Separate factions are exploring the possibility of bringing a junior hockey franchise back to the northeastern Ontario town of Iroquois Falls, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Culina wins pro debut
Sault Ste. Marie native Mario Culina made his pro hockey debut a successful one on the weekend as he backstopped the expansion Newfoundland Growlers to a 5-2 win over the Worcester Railers. …[read more]
Cougars climb to 9-1-1
Sault College Cougars of the Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association picked up a win and tie on the road against the Michigan State Spartans on the weekend. …[read more]
PW Hounds lose in semis
Soo Pee Wee Minor AA Jr. Greyhounds made it to the semi-finals today of a weekend tournament in Pickering only to come up short. …[read more]
Greyhounds to Gatineau
Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League have claimed defenseman Phil Caron off Ontario Hockey League waivers from the Soo Greyhounds, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Cougars roaring at 8-1-0
The only Canadian school in the Division 3, American Collegiate Hockey Association is off to a roaring start to the 2018-2019 season. Sault College Cougars won all three of their games at a weekend tournament in Midland, Michigan that was hosted by Northwood University. …[read more]
Minor hockey snapshot
The various grassroots programs are where it begins for many young hockey players, some of whom will eventually advance to skate at the bantam, midget, junior and college levels. And maybe even beyond. …[read more]
Cougars roar on the road
Coach Mike Hall and his Sault College Cougars won a pair of American Collegiate Hockey Association road tilts over the Adrian College Bulldogs on the weekend. …[read more]
Headrick hockey family
There are five of them, including three defensemen and two forwards. The siblings range in age from 10 to 21. There are three boys and two girls. They are the Headrick hockey family from just outside Sault Ste. Marie on Garden River First Nation. …[read more]
Giving thanks for hockey
It is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. But as there are family dinners with turkey and stuffing planned, there is also hockey to be played and enjoyed. …[read more]
Adieu to a good oldtimer
He was a retired elementary school teacher and one of the founders of the Soo Water Tower Inn 35’s oldtimers hockey team. Good guy Branko Danicich passed away suddenly on Saturday at the age of 76. …[read more]
Cougars busy at the rinks
The men’s and women’s hockey teams from Sault College were on the ice against the Michigan-based Davenport University Panthers on the weekend. …[read more]
Seen on the Soo scene
The rinks in the area surrounding Sault Ste. Marie are full of action. Regular season schedules got underway in both the Great North Midget Hockey League and the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League a couple of weekends ago. And the bright lights of the Ontario Hockey League will shine on the Soo Greyhounds and 19 others teams beginning this week. …[read more]
Soo PW Hounds advance
Soo Pee Wee AA Minor Jr. Greyhounds have moved on to Sunday’s semi-final match at the Peterborough Kawartha Lakes Hockey Tournament. …[read more]
PW minor Hounds tie twice
Soo Pee Wee AA Minor Jr. Greyhounds skated to a pair of opening day ties this afternoon at the Peterborough Kawartha Lakes Hockey Tournament. …[read more]
Enrolled at Sault College
It reads as a display of commitment and depth. With a 26 player roster that includes 14 forwards, eight defensemen and four goalies, the Sault College Cougars are poised for their first full season as members of the Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference. …[read more]
Soo Indians v. Soo T-Birds
Soo Indians of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association and Soo Major Midget Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League will face off against each other four times over the course of the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Good news from SMHA
After some rather anxious moments, the Sault Major Hockey Association will indeed operate AAA teams at the major midget, minor midget, major bantam and minor bantam levels for the 2018-2019 season, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Me, a Maple Leafs fan?
I doubt that my two favourite National Hockey League teams, the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens, will be Stanley Cup contenders come the 2018-2019 season. Ergo, it might be time to hop on the Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagon. …[read more]
Hockey talk and patio bars
Even when it isn’t hockey season, it is. If you play hockey, are a hockey parent, a hockey coach, or if you write about hockey, it becomes a year-round focus, if not a fascination. …[read more]
Ciraulo joins JDM Sports
Having coached more than 300 players who went on to the college level and more than 60 others who advanced to play professional hockey, Bill Ciraulo is joining JDM Sports as its Detroit area representative. …[read more]
RBC at major junior camps
No less than 13 players from the Rayside Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will be headed to main camps of teams in the Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]