Here ‘n there
As the sun melts the snow and the grass starts to show, hockey is still a go. …[read more]
Best laid plans of the NOJHL
There is a lot happening on and away from the rinks of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League as we approach mid April.
On ice, Soo Thunderbirds and Cochrane Crunch are playing for the NOJHL championship. Off ice, there’s more action than working the Saturday night desk at a seedy northern Ontario hotel. …[read more]
Classic Rock
Timmins will make its return to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in 2015-2016 after an absence of more than 15 years — and the team will be known as the Rock. …[read more]
Crunch v. Thunderbirds
Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Cochrane Crunch tonight and Sunday evening in Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series. …[read more]
Back in Iroquois Falls
It was so much older then, it is younger than that now.
The franchise, that is. …[read more]
State of the NOJHL
Fans and supporters who live in the north country — good girls and bad boys alike — may have even more junior A hockey to watch in 2015-2016. …[read more]
Joe Drago has plenty to say
(ED. NOTE: The following interview with Hockey Canada chairman Joe Drago was conducted by TH Sports Media on behalf of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.) …[read more]
Crunch time for Thunderbirds
It’s a sure sign of spring.
Soo Thunderbirds are off to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series for the fourth successive season. …[read more]
Lower the boom in Blind River
What is next for the Blind River Beavers?
Will they remain a part of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League? …[read more]
Cain is T-Birds cool hand
He is the main man behind the scenes.
He is the guy who manages the roster and uses his many contacts in the game to keep his team a contender.
He is polite but he can be gruff. He has a cool hand but an iron fist. …[read more]
NOJHL teams on the verge
Barring an improbable comeback or two, the Soo Thunderbirds and Cochrane Crunch will face off for the 2014-2015 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship. …[read more]
T-Birds in familiar territory
Soo Thunderbirds are one win away from advancing to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series for the fourth successive season. …[read more]
More growth for NOJHL?
During the last off-season, the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League added a team to go from eight in 2013-2014 to nine in 2014-2015.
And once the 2015-2016 season begins, the NOJHL could be at 10 teams, maybe more. …[read more]
T-Birds go two up on Elliot Lake
Four first-period goals lifted the visiting Soo Thunderbirds to a 5-2 win over the Elliot Lake Wildcats on Saturday in Game 2 of their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League semi-final series. …[read more]
Thunderbirds thump Wildcats
Game 1 was for the Birds. But Game 2 will be in the Wildcats den. …[read more]
Thunderbirds v. Wildcats
Top-seeded Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Elliot Lake Wildcats in Game 1 of a best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League semi-final playoff. …[read more]
NOJHL poised to stay in the Falls
The first hurdle towards keeping a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League team in Iroquois Falls has been cleared. …[read more]
NOJHL final four is set
Seventh-place finishers in a nine-team Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League during the regular season, the expansion Powassan Voodoos have reached the final four of the playoff round. …[read more]
NOJHL to remain in Iroquois Falls?
It appears as though the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will not be leaving Iroquois Falls — home of the Abitibi Eskimos — after all. …[read more]
NOJHL playoff picture
Seriously now, did anyone on the outside looking in give the Powassan Voodoos much of a chance in their Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners? …[read more]
Matt Caruso lights up Blind River
Soo Thunderbirds completed a one-sided playoff sweep of the Blind River Beavers on Tuesday and rookie forward Matt Caruso continued to light the lamp. …[read more]
Elliot Lake on the rebound
Now that was more like it.
With the pressure on and in a virtual must-win setting, Elliot Lake Wildcats returned to the victory column in front of their home fans on Monday night. …[read more]
Barons have Wildcats on the run
It’s been a reversal of fortunes for the Elliot Lake Wildcats and Sudbury Nickel Barons thus far in their best-of-seven playoff series. …[read more]
Nickel Barons in driver’s seat
Sudbury Nickel Barons have seized home-ice advantage — and then some — in their first-round, best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series with the favoured Elliot Lake Wildcats. …[read more]
Thunderbirds 11, Beavers 0
Soo Thunderbirds built up a 10-0 lead after two periods and skated to an 11-0 shutout of the visiting Blind River Beavers in the opening game of the best-of-seven, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League playoff series on Thursday. …[read more]
NOJHL mismatch
Soo Thunderbirds will play host to the Blind River Beavers at John Rhodes Community Centre tonight in Game 1 of a best-of-seven playoff series between the top and bottom teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
David Radke, Thunderbird all-star
Seasoned defenceman David Radke is the lone skater from the regular-season champion Soo Thunderbirds to be recognized as a Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League all-star for the 2014-2015 season. …[read more]
Mazzuca and me
There is a misconception out there that Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League commissioner Robert Mazzuca and I are not on speaking terms. …[read more]
Thunderbirds claim first place
Soo Thunderbirds scored two late third-period goals to pull out a 5-4 victory over the visiting Sudbury Nickel Barons in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Saturday. …[read more]
Six-point outing for Jaren Bellini
Jaren Bellini fired three goals and added three assists for good measure as the visiting Soo Thunderbirds routed the Blind River Beavers 10-0 in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Wednesday.
A second-year forward, Bellini now has 31 goals, 26 assists, 57 points for the league-leading Thunderbirds. …[read more]
NOJHL game in Blind River PPD
Tonight’s scheduled Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League game between the host Blind River Beavers and the visiting Sudbury Nickel Barons has been postponed. …[read more]
Best of the border
Today’s tour takes us from one side of the International Bridge to the other as we check in on the Soo Eagles of the North American Hockey League and Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Big game for Brett Jeffries
He is not known as a big goal scorer.
But Brett Jeffries had a big game on Tuesday, scoring four goals to spark the Soo Thunderbirds to a 7-3 victory over the visiting Blind River Beavers in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action. …[read more]
T-Birds blank Gold Miners
Brian Kment blocked 22 shots to backstop the visiting Soo Thunderbirds to a 4-0 blanking of the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Friday. …[read more]
It’s not all fun and games
It is supposed to be all fun and games and for the kids but we all know it’s way more than that.
Junior A hockey isn’t the hundred million dollar business that the major junior game is but it’s still a business.
Take a look at the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Beavers at the bottom of the barrel
Just what is going on down Highway 17 East at Blind River?
At the very bottom of the nine-team Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League are the once-proud Blind River Beavers with one point from a record of 0-38-1. That’s right, one lousy point.
And as bad as things are on the ice in Blind River, it is a mess off the ice as well. …[read more]
T-Birds, Gold Miners all tied up
Double overtime solved nothing.
The top two teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League fought to a stalemate on Saturday night. …[read more]
Here come the KL Gold Miners
The two teams that met for the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship last spring will face off on Saturday night when the Soo Thunderbirds play host to the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners. …[read more]
Two more goals for Tassone
Veteran forward Nic Tassone tallied twice to spark the first-place Soo Thunderbirds to a 6-3 victory over the visiting Abitibi Eskimos in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action on Sunday. …[read more]
Blind River head coach resigns
Veteran bench boss Don Gagnon has resigned as head coach of the Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Thunderbirds thump Sudbury
Soo Thunderbirds skated to a 6-2 win over the visiting Sudbury Nickel Barons in Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League action from Saturday. …[read more]
Thunderbirds add Devin Shell
Devin Shell is back home.
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have acquired the 1995 birth-year forward from the Cambridge Winter Hawks of the Greater Ontario Jr. Hockey League in a cash exchange. …[read more]
Mario Culina is player-of-the-month
Soo Thunderbirds rookie goalie Mario Culina has been named the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League’s player-of-the-month for December. …[read more]
Those high-flying Soo Thunderbirds
They are perched on top as play sets to resume following the holiday recess.
Thirty games into the 2014-2015 campaign, Soo Thunderbirds have the best winning percentage in the nine-team Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
T-Birds end 2014 with win
Rookie defenceman Andrew Barbeau scored his first Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League goal — and it stood as the game winner — as the Soo Thunderbirds closed out the 2014 portion of the season with a 4-2 triumph over the visiting Elliot Lake Wildcats on Sunday. …[read more]
Hat trick Nic
Nic Tassone has become the first member of the Soo Thunderbirds to hit the 20-goal mark this 2014-2015 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season. …[read more]
Two home tilts for T-Birds
Soo Thunderbirds will close out the 2014 portion of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season with a pair of home games this weekend. …[read more]
Crunch time for Thunderbirds
Cochrane Crunch makes its first visit of the 2014-2015 season to Sault Ste. Marie tonight when it takes on the first-place Thunderbirds at John Rhodes Community Centre.
Game time is 7:30 p.m. …[read more]
The latest on Owen Headrick
He is a current Thunderbird and a future Laker and he is inching towards a return to active duty.
It’s been two months — almost to the day — since Owen Headrick underwent shoulder surgery and the likeable youngster from Garden River First Nation is on the road to recovery. …[read more]