3 CIHL coaches, 1,474 NHL games
For a first-year junior operation that has experienced growing pains, the Canadian International Hockey League nonetheless has impressive, big-time ties to the National Hockey League.
To be sure, no less than three CIHL coaches played multiple seasons in the NHL. …[read more]
12 straight for Batchewana Attack
Unbeaten Batchewana Attack showed on Saturday night why it is the top team in the Canadian International Hockey League.
The Attack blanked the visiting St. Charles Spoirit 10-0 before 117 fans at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
A first for the Kalkaska Rhinos
Goalie Bryan Briggs backstopped the Kalkaska Rhinos to their first win in Canadian International Hockey League action from Saturday.
Briggs stopped 46 shots as visiting Kalkaska defeated the Espanola Rivermen 2-1 before a matinee crowd of 566 spectators. …[read more]
Attack, Rivermen get the W
Batchewana Attack and Espanola Rivermen scored home-ice victories in Canadian International Hockey League action on Friday. …[read more]
CIHL revises weekend schedule
Canadian International Hockey League president Tim Clayden has confirmed a revised schedule of games for this weekend. …[read more]
Remembrance Day in the CIHL
Old-fashioned, hard-checking hockey came to the St. Charles Arena on Remembrance Day.
And when it was all over, the visiting Espanola Rivermen edged the St. Charles Spirit 3-2 in Canadian International Hockey League action. …[read more]
Big games for Pilon, Marshall et al
Four games were played in the new Canadian International Hockey League on the weekend and there was a first. …[read more]
Sunday afternoon Attack
Batchewana Attack will be out to extend its season-opening, nine-game winning streak today when it plays host to the Espanola Rivermen in a 2 p.m. match at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
A first for the Colborne Hawks
Colborne Hawks rallied for their first win of the season, a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Jr. Hockey Academy in Canadian International Hockey League action on Saturday.
Alex Bidwell scored the winner in the shootout to improve Colborne’s record to 1-8 and out of last place past the Sudbury Royals. …[read more]
Batchewana to Des Moines
Another member of the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League has been called up to the Tier 1 junior, United States Hockey League. …[read more]
Message from the CIHL president
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a message from Tim Clayden of the Canadian International Hockey League.
CIHL Hockey has been in operation for a month now and has experienced its fair share of trials and tribulations. We have had many gains and successes and are fully prepared to deal with the stumbles ahead which could be considered common in the beginnings of a new junior hockey league. We will persevere even when others continually criticize and try to tear apart what we know is a hockey program that will be second to none at this level in providing options and dreams to world-wide student-athletes. …[read more]
Big weekend for three CIHL teams
with files from CIHL Staff
Batchewana Attack, Espanola Rivermen and St. Charles Spirit all had four-point weekends with two victories apiece in Canadian International Hockey League action. …[read more]
Kendall Huckins on the Attack
He’s liking his home away from home.
Kendall Huckins may be from Chicago but he is feeling at home in Sault Ste. Marie.
Huckins, a 1996 birth-year forward, is taking to living away from home and playing for the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Batchewana 3, Espanola 2
A goal by Chris Skinner with less than three minutes to play in the third period lifted the visiting Batchewana Attack to a 3-2 win over the Espanola Rivermen in Canadian International Hockey League on action Friday.
The win improved Batchewana’s record to 6-0 on the season. …[read more]
Batchewana to Green Bay
Goalie Jack Hickey has joined the Green Bay Gamblers of the Tier 1 junior, United States Hockey League from the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Attack president-director of hockey operations David Maciuk confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com that Hickey has been promoted to Green Bay on a fill-in basis. …[read more]
Batchewana v. Kalkaska
The Michigan-based Kalkaska Rhinos, an independent junior hockey team that is coached by Krzysztof Oliwa, who won a Stanley Cup in 2000 as a fearsome left winger with the New Jersey Devils, will play their first-ever home games this weekend.
The Rhinos will play host to the unbeaten Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Kaliseum Recreational Complex in Kalkaska. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack improves to 5-0
Batchewana Attack remains undefeated in the early going of the 2014-2015 Canadian International Hockey League season.
Sunday afternoon in St. Charles, the Attack completed a weekend sweep of the Spirit with a 6-2 win over the home side.
The Attack began the weekend with a 3-0 home-ice blanking of the Spirit on Saturday night. …[read more]
Batchewana blanks St. Charles
Sergei Koroshun tallied twice and Jack Hickey made 33 saves as the Batchewana Attack improved its Canadian International Hockey League record to 4-0 with a 3-0 whitewash of the visiting St. Charles Spirit on Saturday night at Rankin Arena.
Darian Pilon also scored for Batchewana, which travels to St. Charles for a 2:30 p.m. game today. …[read more]
Rivermen rally for young fan
The biggest crowd to watch a game in the new Canadian International Hockey League came together on Friday night in support of one of the youngest fans of the Espanola Rivermen.
More than 900 people packed the Espanola Regional Recreation Complex for a CIHL game between the Rivermen and the visiting Sudbury Royals.
The Rivermen defeated the Royals 6-2 but the real story of the night was five-year-old Blake Crawford, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. …[read more]
Attack at the Rankin tonight
Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League will put its 3-0 record to the test tonight when it plays host to the visiting St. Charles Spirit.
Game time is 7:30 p.m. at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
Early in the CIHL season
Collingwood Ice and Batchewana Attack are undefeated in the early going of the inaugural Canadian International Hockey League season and the Milton Battle Arts Cobras are not far behind. …[read more]
Batchewana blanks Sudbury
There is disparity that separates the Batchewana Attack and the Sudbury Royals and it was very evident on Monday afternoon at Rankin Arena.
The Attack was full measure for an 11-0 win over the Royals, limiting the visitors to very-few scoring chances while putting the puck in the Sudbury net in rapid fashion. …[read more]
Attack time is 1 p.m.
Batchewana Attack will play host to the Sudbury Royals today in a Thanksgiving afternoon match.
Game time is 1 p.m. at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
CIHL Thanksgiving continues
Milton Battle Arts Cobras scored their first-ever win in the new Canadian International Hockey League on Friday.
Coached by legendary National Hockey League goal-scorer Dennis Maruk, Milton evened its regular-season record at 1-1 with a 7-2 triumph over the Colborne Hawks.
The game was one of three played in the CIHL on Friday — and the new junior league still has a full serving of Thanksgiving weekend games on the holiday plate. …[read more]
CIHL Thanksgiving weekend
It’s a full plate of activity in the new Canadian International Hockey League this Thanksgiving weekend. …[read more]
St. Charles 6, Kalkaska 2
Playing at home on Thursday, St. Charles Spirit of the Canadian International Hockey League built up a 4-0 lead and held on for a 6-2 exhibition win over the independent Kalkaska Rhinos.
The match attracted 271 fans to the St. Charles Arena. …[read more]
Twin engine Attack
They just turned 16-years old earlier this month and are two of the youngest players in the eight-team, Ontario-based, junior-level, Canadian International Hockey League.
Just a season removed from the Soo Source For Sports AA midget team, twin brothers Darian Pilon and Drake Pilon have made the jump all the way up to the Batchewana Attack of the junior A CIHL. …[read more]
Scene from an opening Attack
A new junior hockey league arrived on the weekend and the Batchewana Attack and Espanola Rivermen were part of the debut with a Saturday night game at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
Season-opening Attack
More than 400 fans took in the first-ever regular-season game of the Batchewana Attack on Saturday night at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack home opener
Batchewana Attack will play its first-ever regular-season game tonight as members of the new, Ontario-based, junior-level, Canadian International Hockey League.
The visiting Espanola Rivermen will provide the opposition for the Attack in what is scheduled as a 7:30 p.m. start at Rankin Arena. …[read more]
How the CIHL came to be
From dream to reality, thus begins the story of the new, Ontario-based, junior-level, Canadian International Hockey League.
The first puck will drop on the first-ever CIHL season this weekend, a mere seven months after its founder announced his plans and vision for the new league. And while there is no doubt that there will be bumps ahead — on and off the ice — the CIHL has arrived. …[read more]
Taking to the Ice in Collingwood
Junior hockey makes an official return to Collingwood on Sunday at 2 p.m. when the Ice takes to the ice of Central Park Arena.
The Collingwood Ice will play host to the Milton Battle Arts Cobras as part of opening weekend in the new, Ontario-based, Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
CIHL Spirit adds 3 from NOJHL Eskimos
St. Charles Spirit of the new Canadian International Hockey League has signed four new players, including three former members of the Abitibi Eskimos of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Time to Attack is near
The conquest of the exhibition season is complete. The time to Attack is approaching.
Having finished the pre-season with a perfect record of 7-0, the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League is ready for the real thing. The eight-team CIHL — which is sanctioned by the United Hockey Union — begins its inaugural season this weekend and the Attack will play host to the Espanola Rivermen on Saturday night at 7:30 at Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
A first for the Collingwood Ice
Collingwood Ice of the new Canadian International Hockey League won its first-ever pre-season game against the Colborne Hawks in front of a good-sized, partisan crowd in nearby Wasaga Beach on Saturday night.
Collingwood upended Colborne 11-1 led by Phil Koufis, who had four goals and two assists. …[read more]
Attack perfect at TC showcase
The perfection continues for the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League.
The Attack won all three of its games at a weekend showcase tournament that was hosted by the reigning Midwest Jr. Hockey League champion Traverse City Hounds. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack hires Drew Fata
Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League has hired former Ontario Hockey League and National Hockey League defenceman Drew Fata as its general manager.
Attack president and primary owner David Maciuk confirmed the hiring of Fata as the team’s GM and praised him as a “character individual with a strong hockey and business background.” …[read more]
Statement from the Batchewana Attack
Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League and general manager Dennis Bolton have parted ways. …[read more]
CIHL, MWJHL teams in TC
Batchewana Attack and Espanola Rivermen of the new Canadian International Hockey League, in conjunction with the host Traverse City Hounds and their Midwest Jr. Hockey League partners, the Soo Firehawks, are slated to take to the ice as part of the first-ever, International College Classic Summit Showcase junior hockey tournament.
The event, to be hosted by two-time defending MWJHL regular-season and playoff champion Traverse City, will take place at the Hounds home arena, CENTRE Ice, this Friday and Saturday. …[read more]
Let it Snow
Steady, dependable defenceman Shane Snow will line up for his fourth team in his third league in his fourth season of junior hockey in 2014-2015 as a member of the St. Charles Spirit of the new Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
CIHL rivalries
Geographic rivalries are what the new Canadian International Hockey League is based on, according to its founder and president. …[read more]
Rivermen GM applauds Attack
It may only be the exhibition season but Espanola Rivermen general manager Chad Clarke is of the notion that the Batchewana Attack has already assembled a Canadian International Hockey League powerhouse. …[read more]
Rivermen sign Swiss centre
From the land of the Swiss Alps to the North Shore of Espanola.
Espanola Rivermen general manager Chad Clarke has confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com that the Canadian International Hockey League team has signed high-scoring centre Jason Borer, who hails from Sissach, Switzerland. …[read more]
Batchewana sweeps Espanola
Batchewana Attack completed a weekend sweep of the Espanola Rivermen in the first two exhibition games played in the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Sunday afternoon at Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie, Batchewana cuffed visiting Espanola 6-1. …[read more]
Spirit catches the Hester brothers
St. Charles Spirit coach-general manager Scott Ginson is just happy to have been able to sign brothers Alexander and Trevor Hester, who hail from Cree First Nation in northern Quebec.
“Both brothers were heavily recruited to play by teams in three other junior leagues,” Ginson told HockeyNewsNorth.com. “We are thrilled that they chose to come to St. Charles and be a part of the new Canadian International Hockey League.” …[read more]
Colborne Hawks main camp
Colborne Hawks of the new Canadian International Hockey League will be holding their main camp starting on Monday, September 15 in Brighton, Ontario. …[read more]
A first for the new CIHL
The first-ever exhibition game for the new Canadian International Hockey League was played on Friday night at the Espanola Recreational Complex.
And in front of a capacity crowd, the visiting Batchewana Attack blanked the Espanola Rivermen 6-0. …[read more]
Two home exhibition games for Attack
Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League has scheduled two home exhibition games prior to the start of its inaugural 2014-2015 season.
The games will be played at the home rink of the Attack — Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Snow in St. Charles
Veteran junior defenceman Shane Snow will suit up for the St. Charles Spirit of the new Canadian International Hockey League this season.
St. Charles coach-general manager Scott Ginson told HockeyNewsNorth.com that Snow, a 5-foot-11, 190 pound, 1995 birth-year defenceman who has played in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League with the Blind River Beavers and Soo Thunderbirds, has signed with the CIHL Spirit. …[read more]