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]
Summer breeze up north
Winds of summer are shifting through the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. As in winds of change from one season to another. …[read more]
Palmerio defines character
Heart. Soul. Character. Passion. They are just four of the many positive words than can be used relative to graduated Soo Eagles captain Jake Palmerio. …[read more]
Soo Eagles to Johnstown
Assistant coach Nick Perri is moving on from the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League for a similar position with the Johnstown Tomahawks of the North American Hockey League, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Soo Eagles hire new coach
Doug Laprade, who was part of National Collegiate Athletic Association championship teams as both a player and assistant coach with the Lake Superior State Lakers, is the new head coach of the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
New coach in French River
French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have hired former Ontario Hockey League defenseman Shawn Frappier as their new head coach, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Cicchello has OHL invites
Defenseman Tristan Cicchello, fresh from an eye-catching rookie season with Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, will have ample opportunity to showcase himself at upcoming Ontario Hockey League tryout camps. …[read more]
Capy out as Eagles coach
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have made a change at the head coach position, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Crunch time for Lenny
He adds a lot of colour to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. He can be funny, frantic and furious all in one. He is a man of his word — and a man of many words. And in his fourth season with the Cochrane Crunch since bringing junior hockey to the northeastern Ontario town of about 5,000 residents, Ryan Leonard is an NOJHL champion. …[read more]
Scouts on Beaver dam
Good teams have good scouts. Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are a good team. And they have added more good scouts. …[read more]
Crunch a punch away
Cochrane Crunch is one click away from punching its ticket into the Dudley Hewitt Cup, Central Canada championships. …[read more]
Title tilt tied 2-2
As we catch up with the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, the Cochrane Crunch has caught up with the Rayside Balfour Canadians. …[read more]
Katchouk v. Culina
Two members of the 2014-2015 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Dudley Hewitt Cup champion Soo Thunderbirds will be on opposite sides of the Ontario Hockey League, Western Conference title series. …[read more]
Soo Eagles tryout camp
A hockey season ends. And then, shortly after, the preparation for another one begins. Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have slated an open tryout camp for the May 11-13 weekend. …[read more]
Hockey moms for Humboldt
The deadly, horrific bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan Jr. Hockey League has tugged at the heart strings of the nation, while somehow bringing it closer together. …[read more]
Two jobs for Kyle Brick
Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are showing added faith in highly-successful coach Kyle Brick. …[read more]
Soo packs, RBC plays on
And so it is written. For Soo Thunderbirds, the off-season begins. For Rayside Balfour Canadians, the games will continue. …[read more]
Hat trick for Trine
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are moving yet another player to Trine University, a Division 3 National Collegiate Athletic Association school. …[read more]
NOJHL appeal process
If you happen to be one of those who is expressing outrage at Robert Mazzuca for the reduction in suspension to Rayside Balfour Canadians forward James White, don’t take your hostilities out on the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League commissioner. …[read more]
Soo Eagles to Trine X 2
Another member of the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has committed to Trine University, a Division 3 National Collegiate Athletic Association school. …[read more]
3-2 series lead for Rayside
Rayside Balfour Canadians have moved to within one win of advancing to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series. …[read more]
Beavers to Wolves
Sudbury Wolves made a startling selection in the 10th round of today’s Ontario Hockey League draft. In a process that is designed for players born in 2002, the Wolves opted for 2000 birth year centre Owen Robinson from the Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
T-Birds even the score
It has been reduced to a best-of-three series. Playing at home on Thursday, Soo Thunderbirds came through with a clutch 8-2 verdict over the Rayside Balfour Canadians to even their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series at two games each. …[read more]
Rayside steals road win
Advantage to the visitors. Rayside Balfour Canadians have taken the edge in their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the Soo Thunderbirds. …[read more]
Rayside v. Soo resumes
The series is tied at a game apiece. There is the side bar relative to a blind-side hit that has a player out for the season with a concussion and the instigator of it suspended by the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo Eagles to Trine U
Having graduated from the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, defenseman Owen Kipke has made a commitment to play at Trine University effective the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Uproar over hit on Baber
The Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League is investigating a blind side hit on Soo Thunderbirds rookie forward Camaryn Baber that took place on the opening shift of a playoff game against the Rayside-Balfour Canadians on Friday. …[read more]
Seven game sizzler
One team had to win. One team had to lose. One team did win. Barely. One team did lose. Barely. …[read more]
In the Nick of time
Leave it to a pure goal scorer to decide a hotly-contested, seven-game playoff series. A power play marker by top gun Nick Smith with just over seven minutes to play in the third period lifted the Soo Thunderbirds to a dramatic 3-2 win over the Soo Eagles tonight in the seventh-and-deciding game of their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League West Division semi-final set. …[read more]
Game 7 showdown
If this one does not stimulate the junior hockey fire and desire from within then you may want to check your heart beat. …[read more]
Give the NOJHL some love
It is not the Ontario Hockey League. But there are players aplenty who get to the OHL via the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
T-Birds force Game 7
It was thought by many of those close to the scene that this would go the distance. And it will. Soo Thunderbirds and Soo Eagles will play a seventh-and-deciding game in their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
NOJHL tickets punched
Three of four seats for the divisional playoff dance have been booked. Timmins Rock — yes, Timmins Rock — and Cochrane Crunch from the East block along with Rayside Balfour Canadians from the West side have all punched their tickets to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League division finals. …[read more]
T-Birds extend series
Soo Thunderbirds stared elimination straight in the eyes on Saturday and did not flinch. Eric Schuch made 27 saves and rookie forward Camaryn Baber made a triumphant return to the lineup as the T-Birds forced a sixth game in their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the Soo Eagles. …[read more]
T-Birds are teetering
Successive shutouts have Soo Eagles in position to put away Soo Thunderbirds for the season with another win tonight. …[read more]
Eagles blank T-Birds
Nothing like a whitewash on home ice to take a pivotal series lead. Rookie forward Austin Rowe tallied once and set up two others as the Soo Eagles blanked the Soo Thunderbirds 3-0 tonight in Game 3 of their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff trail
A playoff march through March has more than a touch of spring fever to it along a path of parity in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles tie up T-Birds
The border battle is even. Soo Eagles upended Soo Thunderbirds 3-2 in a Monday night match to tie their best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League semi-final playoff series at a game apiece. …[read more]
Cicchello shoots, scores!
It can be such a simple philosophy. That is, shoot the puck at the net and there is always a chance of scoring a goal. …[read more]
Twin Soo border alert
And so it begins. And so it will be written. The latest chapter in the ongoing saga involving the cross-border foes from Sault Ste. Marie will turn pages beginning tonight. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff picture
It’s a game of crazy eights now. The cards are on the table. There are eight teams spanning four playoff series of chance in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Stick it! BR sweeps EL
Apropos, Blind River Beavers are moving on to the semi-final playoff round within the West Division of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
NOJHL has its Ides of March
There is hustle and bustle — and some rustle — taking place as the Ides of March descend upon the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles finish in third
Soo Eagles took advantage — barely — of a Soo Thunderbirds team that opted to rest several top players in the regular season finale for both clubs on Wednesday. …[read more]
Eagles in search of third
Soo Eagles are in position to overtake the Blind River Beavers for third place in the West Division when the regular season in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League draws to a close tonight. …[read more]
Down to the wire in NOJHL
There are only two games to play on the 2017-2018 regular season schedule in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Good news for Cochrane
Cochrane Crunch of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League already has its first victory of the 2018-2019 season. …[read more]
Baber is on the right path
The general manager of the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League is thrilled with the way rookie centre Camaryn Baber is developing with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Soo Eagles give and receive
Ever since arriving in Sault Ste. Marie in 2010 as the general manager and coach of the Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, Bruno Bragagnolo has been big on community involvement. …[read more]