Timmins to Timmins
Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has signed 2000 birth-year forward Cameron Chisholm. A local product, Chisholm tallied 13 goals, 16 assists, 29 points in 41 games for the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League in 2017-2018, regular season and playoffs included. …[read more]
Team NOHA taps Brick
Thessalon native Kyle Brick has been named head coach of the Team NOHA minor midgets for the 2018-2019 hockey season. …[read more]
Majors on the golf course
Staff members and players with the Timmins Majors were joined by alumni and supporters of the Great North Midget Hockey League team at a golf tournament fundraiser on Sunday. …[read more]
Soo minor midgets so far
Head coach Jamie Henderson has confirmed 18 of the 19 players for the 2018-2019 edition of the Soo Minor Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Kapuskasing via Timmins
Kobe Barrette is changing Great North Midget Hockey League teams. The 2002 birth year forward has opted to join the Kapuskasing Flyers from the Timmins Majors. …[read more]
Signed up in Timmins
Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League have signed 12 players ahead of their August 17-19 training camp preparatory to the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Majors have net worth
Any hockey team at any level can forge a path of success by having a dependable, winning goalie. Based on that, the Timmins Majors midgets have a head start on the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Majors golf tournament
Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League will be holding their second annual golf tournament on Sunday, July 29. …[read more]
New direction in Great North
Consummate volunteer Albert Corradini is moving up from his long-time position as general manager of the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves to take over as commissioner of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Majors to Rock
Timmins to Timmins. Riley Brousseau is moving up from the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League to the Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Hunter hits the Rapids
French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have signed 2002 birth year forward Hunter Brazier from the Sudbury Wolves of the Great North Midget Hockey League, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Several Rayside signings
Rayside-Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have ushered in the month of June by securing a number of new player signings ahead of the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Holmes staying home
Austin Holmes, who led the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League in scoring for the 2017-2018 season, has opted to remain at home and play for the Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in 2018-2019. …[read more]
Timmins Majors discover…
Score two for the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League. The Timmins midgets have confirmed a pair of skills and fitness related partnerships ahead of the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
North Bay shows the way
The minor midget talent pool from North Bay out-splashed Sault Ste. Marie by several lengths at the 2018 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
Mauro has an Erie feeling
Better late than never. Soo Thunderbirds minor midget forward Justin Mauro was picked by the Erie Otters in the 15th round of today’s Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
David Campbell drafted
Sault Ste. Marie product David Campbell has become a prospect of the North Bay Battalion. The lanky forward, who starred for the North Bay Trappers of the Great North Midget Hockey League during the 2017-2018 season, was taken by the Battalion in the fourth round of today’s Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
D-day has northern sky
D-day is looming in the Ontario Hockey League. As in the annual priority selections draft that is slated for this Saturday. …[read more]
Soo midgets held their own
If only they could have generated more offense. A timely goal or two and the Soo Thunderbirds might have won a game or two at the well-played, four-team, minor midget hockey tournament that was held in Sault Ste. Marie on the weekend. …[read more]
NB over TB in title tilt
North Bay Trappers upended Thunder Bay Kings 3-1 this afternoon to take home the gold medal from the Northern Ontario Hockey Association’s minor midget tournament of champions that was held in Sault Ste. Marie over the weekend. …[read more]
Minor midget tourney in Soo
Sault Ste. Marie is set to play host to a four-team, minor midget hockey tournament of champions this coming weekend. Included in the group are the three minor midget teams from the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Sweeping the Great North
No. 1 seed North Bay Trappers and no. 2 seed Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves will meet in the Great North Midget Hockey League finals for the second straight season. …[read more]
Trappers up two on Timmins
If Timmins Majors are to extend their playoff season the upstart Great North Midget Hockey League team cannot lose their next game. …[read more]
Trappers topple Timmins
Regular-season champion North Bay Trappers have taken a 1-0 lead in their second-round, best-of-five, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series with the Timmins Majors. …[read more]
Soo penalty totals don’t lie
A shot at redemption via the playoffs after a sub-par regular season was not to be for the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Good scout v. ordinary scout
The ordinary scout who tracks the Great North Midget Hockey League is the one who shows up when all the others do and goes along with whatever the majority is saying about a certain player. …[read more]
Great North semi-final pairs
It will be the no. 1 seed North Bay Trappers v. the no. 5 seed Timmins Majors and the no. 2 seed Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves v. the no. 3 seed Kapuskasing Flyers in the second round of the Great North Midget Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Timmins ousts Soo midgets
Visiting Timmins Majors completed a two-game playoff sweep of the Soo Greyhounds on Saturday with a come-from-behind, 3-2 overtime triumph. …[read more]
Great North winners
Kapuskasing Flyers and Timmins Majors have drawn first blood in their respective first-round, best-of-three, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff sets. …[read more]
Great North playoffs begin
Separated by a single point during the 2017-2018 regular season, Soo Greyhounds and Timmins Majors are set to face off in a best-of-three, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Great North playoff dates
Fourth-seed Soo Greyhounds and fifth-place Timmins Majors will face off in a first-round, best-of-three, Great North Midget Hockey League playoff series this weekend. …[read more]
Timmins has shot at fourth
Timmins Majors have three games to play in the 2017-2018 regular season — all on home ice — and need a single point to overtake the Soo Greyhounds for fourth place on the major midget side of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Avery Rebek is top dog
Having become the first team in the major midget division of the Great North Midget Hockey League to complete the 36-game regular season schedule, the Soo Greyhounds now await the start of the playoffs, which are likely to begin on the second weekend of February. …[read more]
Soo midget teams clash
The major midget Soo Greyhounds needed overtime to eke out a 3-2 decision over the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds in Great North Midget Hockey League action from Wednesday. …[read more]
Touring the Great North
The clock is ticking on the regular season watch of the Great North Midget Hockey League. The 2017-2018 regular season slate in both the major midget and minor midget divisions ends in early February. …[read more]
Dallaire is a Major difference
Statistics do not lie. They may not always tell the whole story but they do not lie. Just take a look at the goal-tending stats for the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Majors close in on Hounds
Timmins Majors completed a two-game sweep of the Soo Greyhounds today to close the gap between fourth and fifth place within the major midget division of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Flying high up in Kap
They are just waiting to be scouted. And to be sure, there are a number of jewels who are hidden off the highways in the hockey nooks of northeastern Ontario. …[read more]
Minor midgets of the north
There are, without much question, a good number of minor-midget aged youngsters who are high performance players within the Great North Midget Hockey League this 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Brousseau plays Major role
He was a rookie forward for the lowly Timmins Majors, who won only two of 36 regular season games in 2016-2017. But as the Majors have made major strides in the Great North Midget Hockey League in 2017-2018, so too has 2001 birth year forward Riley Brousseau. …[read more]
Flyers have a Kap on third
A record of 16-9-3 through 28 games has the Kapuskasing Flyers sitting in a comfortable third spot on the major midget side of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Hidden jewel of the north
Any Ontario Hockey League general manager or scout who does his own homework and does not go with the flow may want to go out of his way to check out minor midget aged forward Kobe Barrette of the Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Majors go forth in Great North
Timmins Majors are on the move, having won four of their past five games, including a Christmas wrapping of the high and mighty Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves. …[read more]
Soo midgets hop the Express
Espanola Express of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has called on forward Parker Morgan and defenseman Jacob Doucette from the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Hound midgets take a break
There is a good measure of talent on the major midget Soo Greyhounds. But as they are on break from the Great North Midget Hockey League slate, the Greyhound midgets are not in a position of strength. …[read more]
NOJHL debut for Campbell
Minor midget forward David Campbell made a point, literally, in his Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League debut as an affiliate player with the Blind River Beavers. …[read more]
Hound midgets fall to 9-16-4
There is no sugar coating this. Facts are facts. The major midget Soo Greyhounds now have a record of 9-16-4 following an embarrassing 7-3 loss to the minor midget Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Ritchie makes NOJHL debut
Short on players for a weekend road trip, French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League called on defenseman Jordan Ritchie from the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo’s ’02 birth year class
Much has been said and written — in both factual and opinionated form — about the overall state of the AAA midget program in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Trappers of the Great North
Once a lowly presence — over a period of several years — within the Great North Midget Hockey League, the North Bay Trappers now serve as a model program for success and development. …[read more]
Overtime in the Great North
It was a relentless road effort by the Timmins Majors that paid off with a come-from-behind overtime triumph over the Soo Greyhounds in Great North Midget Hockey League action from Friday. …[read more]
Great North gravy
As November prepares to make way for December there continues to be good story lines from within the major and minor divisions of the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Crunch time for Soo boy
Kurtis Rogers of the Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League got to experience the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League recently as a Cochrane Crunch affiliate player. …[read more]
Hound midget hypothesis
There is a lot of individual talent that dots the roster of the major midget Soo Greyhounds. But as the 2017-2018 Great North Midget Hockey League season plays on, the Greyhounds as a team do not show well. …[read more]
T-Bird midgets developing
One of three minor midget teams in a loop that also includes six major midget entries, Soo Thunderbirds sit at the bottom of the Great North Midget Hockey League standings. …[read more]
Kap gains for Hearst
There is a tidy development path along the rugged highway from Kapuskasing to Hearst that serves as player advancement between the two northeastern Ontario towns. …[read more]
Team NOHA has 7 from Soo
Seven Sault Ste. Marie area players have been named to the two Northern Ontario Hockey Association teams that will compete at the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, Eastern AAA Showcase Tournament, to be held next month. …[read more]
Nickel Caps chasing Traps
Three home games this weekend will provide ample opportunity for the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves to close in on the idle North Bay Trappers. …[read more]
Telus Cup update
As Sudbury is slated to play host to the 2018 Telus Cup, major midget hockey championship tournament, preparations for the national event are ongoing. …[read more]
Great North grievance
Soo Greyhounds of the Great North Midget Hockey League have had two wins taken away from them for using players who were under suspension. …[read more]
Soo minor hockey issues
The state of minor hockey in Sault Ste. Marie serves as an ongoing and almost routine basis for banter among those with any sort of link or interest in its well being. …[read more]
Trappers edge past Hounds
Coach Guy Blanchard and his visiting North Bay Trappers worked a pair of overtime shifts to upend the Soo Greyhounds in Great North Midget Hockey League action from last night and this afternoon. …[read more]
Great North stunner!
Backed by the spectacular play of goalie Noah Zeppa, the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds stunned the visiting major midget North Bay Trappers 3-2 in Great North Midget Hockey League action from this afternoon. …[read more]
Making it the hard way
Suffice to say that Ty Zachary does not know the meaning of the word quit. Suffice to say that few have had to overcome what Zachary did just to make the roster of the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds, a first-year team in the Great North Midget Hockey League. …[read more]
Great North starts and stops
There is a form of parity within the Great North Midget Hockey League. For example, over the past week, the North Bay Trappers handed the Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves their first loss of the season only to then be upset by the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Team NOHA names coach
Former Ontario Hockey League forward Richard Rochefort has been named head coach of Team NOHA for the 2017-2018 season. …[read more]
Nine in a row for Nickel Caps
Sudbury Nickel Capital Wolves have a perfect record nine games into the 2017-2018 Great North Midget Hockey League regular season. But the North Bay Trappers are keeping pace with the Nickel Capital Wolves in the race between major midget powerhouses. …[read more]
Cubs clip winged Birds
Short on players due to injury and with just 12 skaters in the lineup, the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds gave it their all only to fall 4-2 to the major midget New Liskeard Cubs on Saturday night. …[read more]
Small goalie, big saves
Maybe, just maybe, there will be an Ontario Hockey League general manager or scout who will think outside the box when it comes to evaluating goalie Noah Zeppa of the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
Up and down the Great North
Today’s Great North Midget Hockey League tour goes from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury to North Bay to Kapuskasing to Timmins. …[read more]
Points for Soo minor midgets
Through five games into their first season in the Great North Midget Hockey League the minor midget Soo Thunderbirds have yet to post a victory. …[read more]
Great North notes, quotes
It was a hot, hazy, humid September weekend in northeastern Ontario. But as it was steamy and sticky outside, there was ice on the sheets inside as early-season play in the Great North Midget Hockey League continued. …[read more]
First-ever N.O. Cup
Soo Thunderbirds of the Great North Midget Hockey League will play host to the first-ever, minor midget, Northern Ontario Cup, which is slated to be staged next March 2-4, 2018 in Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Hockey nights in Timmins
Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Timmins Majors of the Great North Midget Hockey League are both in action at home this weekend. …[read more]