Cain is an able manager
Never far away from the game that is his passion, one of the most successful general managers to ever operate within the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League is working on a new gig, this time at the Great North Midget Hockey League level. …[read more]
Hope, hype for Great North
Let us hope that expansion from seven to nine teams — including two minor midget entries — makes for increased player development and awareness within the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Minor midget team for Soo
Members of the Great North Midget Hockey League have reversed an earlier decision to deny entry to a minor midget team from Sault Ste. Marie and have now voted in favour of admittance for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Sault Major sends an appeal
Sault Major Hockey Association is asking the Great North Midget Hockey League to reconsider its recent decision to deny membership to a minor midget team from the Soo for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Camaryn Baber at Spirit camp
Sault Ste. Marie’s Camaryn Baber is one of 33 players taking part in the Ontario Hockey League prospect camp of the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
Yes to North Bay, no to Soo
There will be no minor midget team from Sault Ste. Marie added to the Great North Midget Hockey League but a second entry from North Bay has been accepted effective the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
10 new Flyers in Kap
Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League have committed to 17 players — including 10 newcomers — for the 2017-2018 campaign. …[read more]
NB Trappers to Mississauga
Defenseman Jake Gravelle, who starred with the North Bay Trappers of the Great North Midget Hockey League this past season, has signed with the Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Signed up in Kap
Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League have signed 13 players ahead of the continuation of their spring tryout camp which wraps up this weekend. …[read more]
Major project in Timmins
There is nowhere to go but up for the Timmins Majors. And the Great North Midget Hockey League team is already planning ahead to the 2017-2018 campaign. …[read more]
Timmins Majors tryouts
Attention midget-aged players in the Timmins area. As they look to rebuild their program, Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League will be holding a tryout camp this weekend. …[read more]
Great North recognition
All in all, it was a pretty-good showing by the Great North Midget Hockey League at the recent, first-ever, Ontario Hockey League under-18 draft. …[read more]
Tryouts here, tryouts there
There are few teams that remain in a playoff picture depicting the 2016-2017 season. Others are already planning ahead to 2017-2018 in the form of spring tryouts. Some of the tryouts slated by teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Great North Midget Hockey League are as follows. …[read more]
Hounds knock on Wood
Soo Greyhounds ended the fifth-and-final round of tonight’s first-ever Ontario Hockey League under-18 draft by selecting a second local product. …[read more]
Storm hits Bradon Caruso
Sault Ste. Marie product Bradon Caruso has been selected by the Guelph Storm in the second round of tonight’s first-ever Ontario Hockey League under-18 draft. …[read more]
Hounds draft Noah Boman
The first-ever Ontario Hockey League under-18 draft for players born in 1999 and 2000 is underway and Soo Greyhounds have opted for a local product in the first round. …[read more]
Kap Flyers spring camp
Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League will be holding a three-session camp that begins next week and then extends into the end of the month. …[read more]
Sault Major to name coaches
Sault Major Hockey Association will soon unveil its head coach selections for the 2017-2018 season including those who will head up the major and (proposed) minor midget teams. …[read more]
Back behind the NB bench
My old buddy Guy Blanchard has committed to return to coach the North Bay Trappers of the Great North Midget Hockey League for a second season. …[read more]
A steal for Saginaw
Methinks that perhaps not even the Saginaw Spirit has an idea of how much of a steal it got when the Ontario Hockey League team pilfered fibrous forward Camaryn Baber in the third round of Saturday’s minor midget draft. …[read more]
New/old coach in Kap
Glen Denney is returning to the Kapuskasing Flyers as head coach after a two-year hiatus from the Great North Midget Hockey League team. …[read more]
North Bay 5, Soo 1
The facts are in the books. North Bay Trappers had five players selected at Saturday’s Ontario Hockey League draft compared to just one from their Great North Midget Hockey League counterparts, the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Baber drafted in 3rd round
Hard-driven, hard-skating, highly-skilled forward Camaryn Baber has been selected by the Saginaw Spirit in the third round, 57th overall, of today’s Ontario Hockey League minor midget draft. …[read more]
North Bay d-man drafted
Slick defender Payton Vescio of the North Bay Trappers has been selected by the North Bay Battalion in the fourth round of today’s Ontario Hockey League minor midget draft. …[read more]
Late-round look at Cicchello
It is almost certain that not only will Camaryn Baber be picked within the top two (or three) rounds of this Saturday’s Ontario Hockey League draft but that the Soo Greyhounds forward will be the first player taken from the Great North Midget Hockey League. And while there is no such certainty regarding Tristano Cicchello, the Soo defenseman looms as an intriguing late-round possibility. …[read more]
Minor midget team for Soo?
Sault Ste. Marie could be home to two teams in the Great North Midget Hockey League effective the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Stevenson to sign with Storm
Winger Keegan Stevenson, who skated with Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League this season, is set to sign with Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Bronze medal for NB Trappers
In a showdown between Great North Midget Hockey League rivals, North Bay Trappers got the best of the host Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves in a bronze-medal keeper at the Ontario Hockey Federation regional tournament. …[read more]
Kap looking for new coach
Pat Millette has opted not to return to the Kapuskasing Flyers of the Great North Midget Hockey League as their head coach for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Great North draft prospects
Led by Northern Ontario Hockey Association player-of-the-year Camaryn Baber, about a dozen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget League could be selected at next month’s Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Baber, Porco among the best
A pair of Sault Ste. Marie products with 2001 birth dates who are top prospects for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League under-16 draft are among the recipients who have received minor midget player-of-the-year awards for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
Only 2 from Soo at OHL Cup
The numbers tell the story. Of the nineteen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget Hockey League who are representing Team NOHA at the OHL Cup Showcase Tournament, only two are from the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Great North set squared 1-1
The championship series in the Great North Midget Hockey League is down to a best-of-three playoff set. …[read more]
Great North finals begin
North Bay Trappers will begin their best-of-five Great North Midget Hockey League championship series against the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves with a pair of home games at Memorial Gardens. …[read more]
NB caps series with Kap
Now that was close. It’s on to the Great North Midget Hockey League championship series for the North Bay Trappers. …[read more]
Soo midgets eliminated
Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves have advanced to the Great North Midget Hockey League finals by virtue of a 4-0 blanking of the Soo Greyhounds this afternoon. …[read more]
Great North semis continue
Nothing has been resolved as of yet in the two Great North Midget Hockey League semi-final series that are going on. …[read more]
Soo midgets need wins
There is no way to sugar coat this. It’s either win two games — beginning tonight — or it’s season over for the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Kap has North Bay at home
Kapuskasing Flyers have seized home-ice advantage in their Great North Midget Hockey League playoff with North Bay but it would be foolish to sell the Trappers short. …[read more]
Best of the Great North
The five-member all-star team from the Great North Midget Hockey League for the 2016-2017 regular season has been confirmed by commissioner Bob MacLean and relayed to HockeyNewsNorth.com. …[read more]
Hound midgets in a hole
Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League are facing elimination following a pair of road losses to the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves on the weekend. …[read more]
Kap keeps up with NB
Veteran-laden Kapuskasing Flyers were primed to give the pennant-winning North Bay Trappers all they could handle in their Great North Midget Hockey League semi-final playoff series — and through two games they have done just that. …[read more]
OHL scouts eye Great North
Scouts from a number of Ontario Hockey League teams have casually confirmed they will have a presence in North Bay and Sudbury this weekend as the Great North Midget Hockey League begins semi-final playoff action. …[read more]
Great North second round
Top-seeded North Bay Trappers will return to the ice following an opening-round playoff bye in one of two Great North Midget Hockey League semi-final series slated to start this weekend. …[read more]
Soo midgets sweep Sudbury
It’s on to the second round of the Great North Midget Hockey League playoffs for the Soo Greyhounds following a relatively-easy, first-round sweep. …[read more]
NB Trappers a balanced act
Six teams in the Great North Midget Hockey League begin opening-round playoff action this weekend while the North Bay Trappers have a bye as a result of their first-place finish during the regular season. …[read more]
Great North stats, seeds
Second season — aka the playoffs — in the Great North Midget Hockey League is set to start with three first-round series and an opening-week bye. …[read more]
1st-place Trappers get bye
Finishing first in the Great North Midget Hockey League carries the reward of a first-round playoff bye for the North Bay Trappers. …[read more]
Team defense tilts Trappers
North Bay Trappers are poised to head into next week’s Great North Midget Hockey League playoffs as the no. 1 seed in the seven-team loop. …[read more]