Big changes for Rayside-Balfour
New owner Adrian Gedye has brought sweeping changes to the Rayside-Balfour Canadians that includes the return of time-tested, title-winning coaches to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Rayside calls a press conference
The new owner of the Rayside-Balfour Canadians will introduce the staff of his Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team for the 2016-2017 season at a press conference tonight. …[read more]
New coach for Blind River Beavers
Kyle Brick will be leaving his position as an assistant coach with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to become head coach of the West Division rival Blind River Beavers. …[read more]
T-Birds to play on for a while
Regardless of whether they win the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff championship, Soo Thunderbirds will still be playing once their best-of-seven series with the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners is over. …[read more]
Elliot Lake extends series
Elliot Lake Wildcats shrugged off an early 3-0 deficit and rallied to defeat the visiting Soo Thunderbirds 4-3 in overtime on Friday, thus extending the best-of-seven Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
T-Birds up three on Wildcats
A second-successive shutout has the reigning champion Soo Thunderbirds within one win of a spot in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League title series. …[read more]
Soo Eagles spring tryout camp
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will be holding an open tryout camp on the May 6-8 weekend, co-coach/general manager Bruno Bragagnolo has confirmed to HockeyNewsNorth.com. …[read more]
Soo T-Birds spring tryout camp
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will hold their 2016 spring tryout camp from May 13-15 at John Rhodes Community Centre. …[read more]
NOJHL final four playoff update
Best-of-seven playoff finals in the West and East Divisions of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League resume this week. …[read more]
Tech takes over the T-Birds
As part of a friendly takeover, The Tech 1921 Ltd. will assume official command of the Soo Thunderbirds effective the end of the 2015-2016 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season. …[read more]
It’s Crunch time again
Cochrane Crunch continues its quest of trying to make it to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series for the second time in its two-year history when it takes on the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners in the East Division finals. …[read more]
Soo Eagles working towards ’16-17
Their 2015-2016 season over after being swept by the Soo Thunderbirds in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League’s West Division playoffs, Soo Eagles co-coach/general manager Bruno Bragagnolo has started building towards the 2016-2017 campaign. …[read more]
Crunch these playoff numbers
Cochrane Crunch scored a bunch in its playoff sweep of the Timmins Rock and now the small-market Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team will face the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners in the East Division finals. …[read more]
Change at the top for Soo T-Birds
As was first reported by HockeyNewsNorth.com on Saturday, a change in operation awaits the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Off-ice change awaits Soo T-Birds
On the ice, the reigning Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League champion Soo Thunderbirds are in pursuit of repeat glory while off the ice, they await a poised change in operation. …[read more]
Birds send Eagles packing
A huge crowd at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo watched the exit of the Soo Eagles for the 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Beavers have had NOJHL success
There are numerous blueprints for the Blind River Beavers to copy and study as the franchise strives to return to a level of competitiveness in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Eagles perched on the edge
Soo Eagles managed to hold the Soo Thunderbirds to a single goal on Wednesday but the end result was a third straight playoff loss for the Michiganders. …[read more]
Coaching change in Blind River
Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are looking for a new coach and general manager, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
T-Birds up two on Eagles
Soo Thunderbirds have taken a commanding two games to none lead on the Soo Eagles in what so far has been a one-sided Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League West Division semi-final playoff series. …[read more]
T-Birds take it to Eagles
Soo Thunderbirds made it look quick and easy with a resounding 9-3 win over the visiting Soo Eagles in the opener of their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff set on Saturday night. …[read more]
Eagles “looking forward” to series
Soo Eagles finished 49 points behind the Soo Thunderbirds and lost 10 of 12 games to the regular-season champs but the two teams start even as their best-of-seven Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series begins tonight at 7:30 at the Essar Centre. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff perspectives
Eight teams — seven of which finished the regular season with winning records well above the .500 mark — are in position to win the 2015-2016 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff championship. …[read more]
Back on the hockey beat
After spending parts of five days in Ottawa at the Tim Hortons Brier, Canadian men’s curling championships, I am back home on the hockey beat. …[read more]
Eagles should upend Express but…
Soo Eagles have a distinct advantage on the Espanola Express ahead of the best-of-three, preliminary-round, West Division playoff series between the two Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League teams. …[read more]
Can the Eskis knock off the Rock?
This one has the makings of a nasty, intense playoff series — the small-town Iroquois Falls Eskis up against their neighbours, the bigger-market Timmins Rock. …[read more]
NOJHL prelim round playoff dates
The Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League has confirmed the schedule for its two preliminary-round playoff series. …[read more]
Voodoos boast home-grown flavour
A second-year franchise, the Powassan Voodoos fashioned an impressive 84-point regular season to finish third overall in the 12-team, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League standings. …[read more]
Eagles have defensive Powers
He may not be the Soo Eagles best defenseman but Roger Powers is one of the most-improved players on the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team. …[read more]
Thunderbirds score by committee
Soo Thunderbirds may be the top team in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League but they are far from an offensive powerhouse. …[read more]
Parrott flies like an Eagle
He can skate, he can shoot, he can play a rough-and-tumble style and he is a favourite of his coach because of the way he plays the game. …[read more]
Watch the Soo T-Birds for free
All minor hockey players 14 years of age and younger will be admitted free to Wednesday’s Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League game between the Soo Thunderbirds and Rayside-Balfour Canadians — on one condition. …[read more]
Eskis forward gets NCAA deal
Castleton Spartans, a Division 3, National Collegiate Athletic Association program that plays out of the New England Hockey Conference, has a commitment from a high-scoring forward with the Iroquois Falls Eskis of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
March 1 musings
The first of March takes us one day closer to spring and another day closer to playoffs.. …[read more]
Culina paying off for Spitfires
Free-agent goalie Mario Culina has been money in the bank for the Windsor Spitfires as a 1997 birth-year rookie. …[read more]
Soo Eagles makeup game
Soo Eagles will play host to the Espanola Express on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in a re-scheduled Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League game. …[read more]
Jake Palmerio has a school offer
Lawrence University Vikings of the Division 3, Northern Collegiate Hockey Association have offered a future roster spot to Soo Eagles forward Jake Palmerio, HockeyNewsNorth.com has learned. …[read more]
Playoff-implications pair at Pullar
Soo Eagles will play host to the Blind River Beavers tonight and the Espanola Express on Saturday in a crucial two-game home-stand at Pullar Stadium. …[read more]
This is what’s next for Soo Eagles
Soo Eagles have an in-house situation that carries major ramifications for many within the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Net worth in Elliot Lake
Rookie goalie Aaron Mackay has not lost a game in regulation time for the Elliot Lake Wildcats covering 16 appearances dating back to October 23. …[read more]
Soo Eagles in a 10-game swoon
They reached a high on January 23 when they beat the league-leading Soo Thunderbirds for the first time this season but since then the Soo Eagles have only 2 wins in their last 10 outings. …[read more]
Moe Mantha’s bittersweet decision
It wasn’t easy for Moe Mantha to leave the expansion French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to return to the Ontario Hockey League after a 10-year absence and take over as interim coach of the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
Moe Mantha is new coach in Saginaw
Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League has fired head coach Greg Gilbert and replaced him with veteran bench boss Moe Mantha for the balance of the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Border battle resumes tonight
It’s Monday night hockey this evening as the Soo Eagles play host to the Soo Thunderbirds in a 7 p.m. face off at Pullar Stadium in the Michigan Soo. …[read more]
Race for 5th place in NOJHL West
Blind River Beavers have narrowed the gap on the Espanola Express in what is shaping up as a frantic race for the fifth-and-final playoff spot in the West Division of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Here come the NCAA recruiters
Recruiters from the Division 1 and Division 3 ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association are doing — and in some cases, have done — their homework on a flock of front-line players from within the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Good return for the Soo Eagles
They were champions of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in 2010-2011 and made it to the semi-finals in 2011-2012 before deciding to test the North American Hockey League for the 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons. …[read more]
NOJHL notions a la RR
Let’s head East and West, team to team, town to town in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, according to the gospel of RR: …[read more]
How about an NOJHL showcase?
It is evolving as one of the better junior A hockey leagues in Canada with a reputation for attracting top players and good coaches. …[read more]