Collingwood has coach on Ice
Owner-general manager Tim Dickieson of the Collingwood Ice of the new Canadian International Hockey League has named Marko Fiser as the team’s first-ever head coach.
Fiser joins the Ice with significant coaching and playing experience with teams and leagues in Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden. …[read more]
Ex-NHLer joins Batchewana Attack
Sault Ste. Marie native Rico Fata, who was a first-round pick in both the Ontario Hockey League and the National Hockey League, has joined the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League as its skills and skating coach. …[read more]
Showcasing the players
The new Canadian International Hockey League is intent on providing multiple showcase tournament opportunities for its players before and during the upcoming 2014-2015 season.
Along with its United Hockey Union partner from the Midwest Jr. Hockey League, the CIHL will either host or is invited to participate in three confirmed showcase tournaments beginning with the Fall Summit College Classic Weekend to be held in Traverse City in mid September. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack hires a GM
He’s structured, organized, honourable and respected.
He’s also been around the game for a while.
After six years in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League as an associate coach and assistant general manager, Dennis Bolton is moving to the new Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
Sudbury is eighth team in CIHL
The new Canadian International Hockey League has added an eighth team — and fourth from Northern Ontario.
Under the ownership of the father-son duo of Dr. Martin Beals and KB Beals, the Greater Sudbury Royals will be based out of the Capreol Community Arena. …[read more]
St. Charles Spirit makes first signing
Alexandre Savard, a 1997 birth-year defenceman from the Sudbury area, has become the first player to sign with the St. Charles Spirit of the new Canadian International Hockey League.
A strapping 6-foot-1, 215 pound defender, Savard played for the Great North Midget Hockey League champion Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves in 2013-2014. …[read more]
The CIHL is here
It is here. It is a reality.
And it is a viable option for hockey players from the ages of 15-20. …[read more]
New CIHL team advertises positions
Batchewana Attack of the Canadian International Hockey League is advertising all positions with the new Sault Ste. Marie area junior team.
The Attack, which will begin play in the new CIHL effective the 2014-2015 season, has secured Rankin Arena as its home base.
Rankin Arena is located on First Nation land in Sault Ste. Marie.
The Batchewana Attack is looking to fill the following positions. …[read more]
Cade Nolan on the Attack
Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League has committed to its second player in as many days.
Cade Nolan, a 6-foot-2, 170 pound, 1996 birth-year defenceman from Garden River First Nation, confirmed that he will play for the Batchewana entry in the new CIHL in 2014-2015. …[read more]
First signing for Batchewana Attack
David Maciuk has his first player commitment as director of hockey operations for the Batchewana Attack of the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Maciuk has confirmed that 1997 birth-year forward Jacob Palmerio has signed up to play for Batchewana, which recently became the seventh member of the CIHL and will play out of Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie effective the 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Batchewana Attack joins CIHL
Junior hockey is returning to Rankin Arena in Sault Ste. Marie after a 32-year hiatus.
Batchewana Attack has become the seventh team in the new Canadian International Hockey League, which will begin play effective the upcoming 2014-2015 season.
The Attack will be based out of Rankin Arena, which housed the Soo Thunderbirds of the erstwhile International Jr. B Hockey League from 1978 until 1982. …[read more]
Six and counting for CIHL
The ever-growing Canadian International Hockey League is officially at six teams — with a seventh to be announced on Saturday.
The latest to join the newly-formed junior league — one in which Canadian and American players will share equal status as non-imports and teams can utilize as many as 12 Europeans and unlimited 15-and-16 year olds — is the Collingwood Ice. …[read more]
Ex-NHLer to coach in new CIHL
Dennis Maruk, who played in the Ontario Hockey League and the National Hockey League with distinction, has been hired as head coach of the Milton Battle Arts Cobras of the new Canadian International Hockey League. …[read more]
CIHL-MWJHL invitational in Detroit
The Ice Box Sports Center in the Detroit suburb of Brownstown will be the site of a pre-season invitational tournament for teams from the Midwest Jr. Hockey League and the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Detroit Fighting Irish of the MWJHL will play host to the Shamrock Showcase Showdown, which will be held from September 18-21. …[read more]
CIHL adds two more teams
Two more teams have confirmed their membership into the new Canadian International Hockey League.
Central Ontario HTI Stars and St. Charles Spirit are the latest additions into the CIHL, giving the new league five confirmed teams to date. …[read more]
New CIHL confirms teams
The new Canadian International Hockey League has confirmed that Colborne Cramahe Hawks and Milton Battle Arts Cobras have cleared the United Hockey Union screening process and will ice teams effective the 2014-2015 campaign.
CIHL president and founder Tim Clayden, who also owns the Espanola Rivermen — formerly of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League — said he expects to announce four more teams to the new loop within the next week to 10 days. …[read more]
CIHL open for business
Its membership into the United Hockey Union — which is sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union — official, the new Canadian International Hockey League now begins the task of determining which teams will begin play effective the 2014-2015 season, said president and founder Tim Clayden. …[read more]
CIHL progress
Its membership into the United Hockey Union and Amateur Athletic Union is secure.
Now, the Canadian International Hockey League begins the screening process through the UHU and AAU that will determine the teams and locations that will comprise the new loop.
So, where to from here? …[read more]
New CIHL gets UHU approval
The sanctioned United Hockey Union — under the umbrella of the Amateur Athletic Union — has officially approved the new Canadian International Hockey League as a member, effective immediately.
The UHU executive gave its unanimous endorsement to the CIHL and its founder Tim Clayden at a Friday meeting in Detroit. …[read more]
UHU set to embrace new CIHL
As the sanctioned United Hockey Union — under the umbrella of the Amateur Athletic Union — prepares to officially approve the new Canadian International Hockey League as a member, it has already endorsed it.
For starters, Ron White, who serves as president of the UHU, national junior hockey director for the AAU and commissioner of the Western States Hockey League, has congratulated the CIHL as a new member of the group. …[read more]
Tentative MWJHL-CIHL relationship
Should the new Canadian International Hockey League be approved for membership under the umbrella of the Amateur Athletic Union for the 2014-2015 season it figures to have a working relationship with the Midwest Jr. Hockey League.
MWJHL commissioner Scott Gardiner told HockeyNewsNorth.com on Monday that he met with CIHL founder Tim Clayden last week and the two discussed plans for a pair of showcase tournaments for next season. …[read more]
CIHL hires veteran official
The new Canadian International Hockey League has named veteran referee George Harrison as its Director of Officiating effective the 2014-2015 season.
Harrison has spent more than 15 years as an official in the professional ranks with stops in the Colonial Hockey League, United Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, Central Hockey League and Western Professional Hockey League. …[read more]
Why chirp the CIHL?
So, the newly-formed Canadian International Hockey League intends to take to the ice for the 2014-2015 season with between six to 10 Ontario-based teams.
The new Tier 2 junior league is designed to be a global loop made up of Canadian, American and European players.
Espanola Rivermen owner Tim Clayden is the founder of the CIHL and he brings his team there from the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League where it finished third in the standings and first on the attendance chart in 2013-2014.
To be sure, Clayden isn’t leaving the NOJHL with hugs and kisses for certain team governors or commissioner Robert Mazzuca. …[read more]
Long-time NOJHL exec joins CIHL
The reputable Dean Pauli, who has held management positions with teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Ontario Jr. Hockey League, has joined the new Canadian International Hockey League as its Vice President and Chairman of the Discipline Committee.
A top investigator with the Ontario Provincial Police, Pauli is a Sault Ste. Marie native who has resided in the North Bay area for a number of years. …[read more]
CIHL is official
The Canadian International Hockey League has made its formation official.
CIHL founder Tim Clayden has served official notice that the Tier 2 junior league will begin operations effective the upcoming 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
CIHL moving forward
Officials connected to the proposed Canadian International Hockey League met on Tuesday evening in Toronto.
Long-time junior hockey operator Tim Clayden, who is the force behind the formation of the CIHL, said the new league will be ready to go for the 2014-2015 season with eight-to-ten teams. …[read more]
Make way for the CIHL
Espanola Rivermen owner Tim Clayden has served notice that he intends to move his team out of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and into the new Canadian International Hockey League effective the 2014-2015 campaign.
I asked Clayden why the Rivermen are leaving the NOJHL and what we can expect from the CIHL.
Following is a transcript of the interview. …[read more]