Goals by Baber and Porco
Sault Ste. Marie products Camaryn Baber and Nick Porco combined to score the tieing and winning goals as the Saginaw Spirit upended the Flint Firebirds 6-4 in Ontario Hockey League exhibition play from Friday. …[read more]
Hamilton hires Pat Jarrett
Reigning Ontario Hockey League champion Hamilton Bulldogs have rounded out their coaching staff for the 2018-2019 season with the hiring of Sault Ste. Marie native Patrick Jarrett, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
OHL watchtower views
A writer’s selection of storyline material ahead of the approaching 2018-2019 Ontario Hockey League regular season. …[read more]
Wins for Flint, Saginaw
Interstate 75 rivals Flint Firebirds and Saginaw Spirit both posted victories on Friday as the Ontario Hockey League exhibition season got underway. …[read more]
Wolves at 29 players
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have trimmed their player roster to 29 ahead of a home-ice exhibition game against the Ottawa 67’s on Friday night. …[read more]
King of the Bulldogs
Hulking defenseman D.J. King has signed on with the reigning Ontario Hockey League champion Hamilton Bulldogs. …[read more]
Working out in Flint
Training camps are underway throughout the Ontario Hockey League preparatory to the 2018-2019 season. For example, the Flint Firebirds are hard at work with a goal of returning to the Western Conference playoffs after missing out in 2017-2018. Below are a few photos from the Flint training camp. …[read more]
Young pups of the Soo
Call it a rebuild. Call it a youth movement. Whatever the words or phrase may be, the 2018-2019 version of the Soo Greyhounds will be decidedly different from the 2017-2018 edition. …[read more]
Saginaw shows strength
The fact that the Saginaw Spirit has opted to allow three veteran skaters the opportunity to seek Ontario Hockey League employment elsewhere reads as a sign of strength for the looming Western Conference contenders. …[read more]
Saginaw goes Wilde
Call it a walk on the Wilde side. Two years after choosing Bode Wilde in the second round of the 2016 Ontario Hockey League draft, the Saginaw Spirit has signed the 2000 birth-year defenseman. …[read more]
The legend of Mav
He can be called an Ontario Hockey League legend and few — if any — would dispute that notion. He can also be termed gruff but pleasant, ornery but kind, a beer-drinking guy who coached and managed against the best of them. …[read more]
Oulahen, Findlay, Rutledge
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have finalized their coaching staff ahead of the 2018-2019 season, general manager Barclay Branch has confirmed. …[read more]
This Bud’s for Sudbury
A vacant coaching position has drawn former Ontario Hockey League bench boss Bud Stefanski out of retirement. Stefanski, who originally hails from the northeastern Ontario mining town of Timmins, has joined the Sudbury Wolves as an assistant on the staff of head coach Cory Stillman. …[read more]
Good for David Matsos
He is known as a good guy in the inner and outer circles of the Ontario Hockey League. And the recent hiring of David Matsos as head coach is seen as a good move by the reigning OHL champion Hamilton Bulldogs. …[read more]
Villalta has the numbers
There are sidebars to the rebuild project that the Soo Greyhounds are undertaking after a bid to win the Ontario Hockey League championship came up short this past spring. …[read more]
Hamilton adds draft picks
Reigning Ontario Hockey League champion Hamilton Bulldogs have acquired three future draft picks in a trade with the Guelph Storm. …[read more]
CCHL Nepean to OHL Flint
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have gone to the Nepean Raiders of the Central Canada Hockey League to hire a new associate coach. …[read more]
Guelph coach is a Wiseman
Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League has added to its staff with the hiring of Chad Wiseman as assistant coach. …[read more]
RBC at major junior camps
No less than 13 players from the Rayside Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League will be headed to main camps of teams in the Ontario Hockey League and Quebec Major Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Matsos is the man
Reigning Ontario Hockey League champion Hamilton Bulldogs have promoted from within to replace graduated head coach John Gruden, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Good deal for Flint
Apropos a position of consequence in hockey, it starts between the pipes. And where the stakes are high and there is parity within the two conferences, quality goalies are coveted in the 20-team Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Net gain for the Wolves
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have signed world-class, Finnish-born goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen. …[read more]
Flint nets big fella Vella
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have bolstered their net balance with the addition of 1998 birth year goalie Emanuel Vella from the Mississauga Steelheads, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
OHL perusal, prognosis
August has just arrived. Ergo, it might be referred to, in these dog days of summer, as pre-pre season in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Saginaw holds Wilde card
Towering defenseman Bode Wilde has — through various media outlets — declared his intention to play in the Ontario Hockey League come the 2018-2019 season. But as of this date, Wilde has yet to sign with the OHL team that drafted him in 2016. …[read more]
Setting up in Saginaw
It is being seen as a matter of when, not if. And it should happen within the next season or so. That is, there is a strong hockey Spirit that is set to rise. …[read more]
Houndtown transformation
The slate in the coaches office has been wiped clean. As the Soo Greyhounds prep for the 2018-2019 season following a 2017-2018 campaign that did not result in expected victory, there are new coaches at the helm. …[read more]
Porco a top prospect add
Sault Ste. Marie product Nick Porco has a shot at playing for Canada’s under-18 summer hockey team. The 2001 birth-year left winger is fresh from his rookie season in the Ontario Hockey League as a first-round draft pick of the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
Hamilton coach search
For the second time in three summers, Hamilton Bulldogs president and general manager Steve Staios is conducting a search for a new head coach for the Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Wolves promote Moxam
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have elevated Darryl Moxam from part time assistant coach to full time associate coach. …[read more]
Gruden to NY Islanders
John Gruden is moving on — and up — after his Ontario Hockey League championship season with the Hamilton Bulldogs, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Signed up over in Flint
Another building block is in place. Flint Firebirds have a commitment from their third round pick at the 2018 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft. …[read more]
Memorial Cup reunion
Members of the 1993 Memorial Cup champion Soo Greyhounds are holding a 25th anniversary reunion weekend beginning on Friday of this week. …[read more]
OHL goalie market
A veteran goalie or two could be on the move ahead of, or just into, the 2018-2019 Ontario Hockey League season. …[read more]
Jordan Smith to Hounds
Sault Ste. Marie native Jordan Smith is moving on from the Sudbury Wolves after one season as associate coach for a job with the Soo Greyhounds, Hockey News North has learned. …[read more]
Give Dean a chance
John who? That is a question more than one fan and advertiser was asking after the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League hired 37-year old John Dean as their new head coach. …[read more]
Greyhounds new coach is …
Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League have settled on a new bench boss, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Cusp of the rising Spirit
The Spirit is set to rise in the Great Lakes Bay Region, specifically the mid Michigan, Ontario Hockey League town of Saginaw. …[read more]
Nick Porco has the Spirit
He is a polite, respectful, mature young man who just turned 17 years old in March of this year. And while Sault Ste. Marie is home, he is eagerly anticipating a return to Saginaw for his second season in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Kingston coach search
Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League are going to a Plan B of sorts as they look for a new head coach. …[read more]
Cirella feels the Heat
Joe Cirella has become the third member of the Soo Greyhounds coaching staff to leave the Ontario Hockey League team since the end of the 2017-2018 season, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Pro job for Bobby Jones
Career coach Bobby Jones has moved a step closer to a National Hockey League job. Jones, who hails from the Sault Ste. Marie area beach town of Haviland Bay, has joined the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League as an assistant coach. …[read more]
6 Firebirds with NHL ties
Boasting a roster of some of the best young talent in the Ontario Hockey League, Flint Firebirds seem poised to return to the Western Conference playoffs in 2018-2019 after missing out on the post season in 2017-2018. …[read more]
Rapids sign Wolves pick
Speedy centre Ryan Smith, an 11th round pick of the Sudbury Wolves at the 2018 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft, has signed with the French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Russian goalie has Spirit
Looking to solidify its net worth with the graduation of overage backstop Evan Cormier, Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League selected Russian-born goalie Ivan Prosvetov with the 13th overall pick at today’s Canadian Hockey League import draft. …[read more]
Building blocks of Flint
After posting a winning record and making the playoffs with a veteran-laden team in 2016-2017, Flint Firebirds rebuilt the engine in 2017-2018 and missed the post season with a young group of players. …[read more]
Wild about this kid
Saginaw Spirit forward Damien Giroux, who hails from the Sudbury area town of Hanmer, is now a National Hockey League prospect of the Minnesota Wild. …[read more]
NY Islanders show Spirit
New York Islanders snagged forward Blade Jenkins from the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League in the fifth round of today’s National Hockey League entry draft. …[read more]
Seven up for the OHL
Seven players from the Ontario Hockey League, including two from both the Soo Greyhounds and London Knights, were among the 31 skaters who were chosen in the first round of the 2018 National Hockey League draft. …[read more]