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]
Reaching for the Stars
Ty Dellandrea has become the first player in the three-year Ontario Hockey League history of the Flint Firebirds to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Culina to Carolina camp
Sault Ste. Marie product Mario Culina is headed to the National Hockey League rookie camp of the Carolina Hurricanes, Hockey News North has learned. …[read more]
Bob Gainey, for Petes sake
A storied Ontario Hockey League franchise has gone back to its celebrated past to bring a Hall of Fame, Stanley Cup champion home to Peterborough. …[read more]
OHL coach ascension
As the Ontario Hockey League develops players for the professional ranks, so too is it a training ground for coaches. …[read more]
A walk on the Wilde side
It is a story, complete with headline, that I have been waiting to write for quite a while: Bode takes a walk on the Wilde side to Saginaw. …[read more]
Saginaw gamble pays off
Center Cole Perfetti has opted for the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League over the University of Michigan Wolverines, a prestigious Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association school, Hockey News North has confirmed. …[read more]
Bannister exit is timely
Season by season by season, three of them in total, Soo Greyhounds climbed the Ontario Hockey League ladder under head coach Drew Bannister. …[read more]
Best of the OHL’s best
The best of the best were honoured by the Ontario Hockey League as part of its awards ceremony in Toronto today. …[read more]
Who will coach Hounds?
Drew Bannister has moved up to the minor pro level after three successful seasons as head coach of the Soo Greyhounds. With the bench boss position with the Ontario Hockey League Greyhounds vacant, Soo general manager Kyle Raftis is in position to choose from what should be a choice crop of potential replacements. …[read more]
A future hint in Flint
A hint of future promise has signed on with the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League. First-rounder Evan Vierling, who was the second overall pick at this year’s OHL priority selections draft, has officially committed to Flint. …[read more]
Refs didn’t decide series
Those who don’t wear blinders seem to have accepted the fact that, over what was a six-game series, the Hamilton Bulldogs were better than the Soo Greyhounds and were deserving winners of the 2018 Ontario Hockey League championship. …[read more]
More Bulldogs, Hounds
A repeat performance of sorts? Maybe yes, maybe no. But at the very least, the two teams that met in this spring’s Ontario Hockey League championship series are positioned to be contenders again next season. …[read more]
Wolves have historian
Sudbury Wolves have a lengthy Ontario Hockey League history that dates back to 1972. And now, the Wolves have their very own historian. …[read more]
Fulcher is top goalie
Hamilton Bulldogs puck-stopper Kaden Fulcher has won the Hap Emms Memorial Trophy as the top goalie at the 2018 Memorial Cup tournament. …[read more]
Bulldogs had a good run
They out-played and out-chanced the host Regina Pats in the semi-final match of the 2018 Memorial Cup championship tournament. And while the 2017-2018 season ended for the Hamilton Bulldogs with a 4-2 loss, it was a very good run for the Ontario Hockey League champions. …[read more]
Here’s to the Bulldogs
Being clearly provincial and partisan towards the Ontario Hockey League, I am rooting for the Hamilton Bulldogs to win the 100th rendition of the prestigious Memorial Cup championship tournament. …[read more]
Memorial Cup matchups
Three teams, including the Ontario Hockey League champion Hamilton Bulldogs, remain in the quest for the 2018 Memorial Cup title. …[read more]
Up and down Hounds
A first-place finish during the 2017-2018 regular season that included 116 points from a record of 55-7-6 did not lead to an Ontario Hockey League playoff championship for the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Some of what was said
Plenty of words were spoken, flattering ones at that, after the Hamilton Bulldogs upended the regular-season champion Soo Greyhounds to win the Ontario Hockey League title series four games to two. …[read more]
Hail to the OHL champs
The team that deserved to win the Ontario Hockey League championship did just that. As good as the Soo Greyhounds were, the Hamilton Bulldogs were better. …[read more]
Eyes on Hounds, Bulldogs
The best team in the Ontario Hockey League over the course of the 2017-2018 regular season faces elimination today. …[read more]
Hamilton has the hammer
The underdogs from Hamilton are a win away from taking the Ontario Hockey League championship from the top dogs of Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Razzle dazzle playoff days
It began in the third week of March and has played on until the middle of May. Thrills, spills and chills of the 2018 Ontario Hockey League playoff race towards championship glory have been plentiful. …[read more]
Jumbo hot dog a la Cherry
I am on record as saying that I agreed with Don Cherry when the outspoken Hockey Night In Canada commentator referred to the Soo Greyhounds as “hot dogs” because of the way they seem to over-celebrate goals. …[read more]
Hound Power via Hamilton
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following guest column by Steve Buist reflects on his days as a fledgling sportswriter whose first media job was covering the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. The award-winning Buist is a former Sault Star writer who is now an investigative reporter and feature writer at the Hamilton Spectator. …[read more]
OHL history in Hamilton
The Ontario Hockey League officially returned to Hamilton in 2015 when the Bulldogs took the place of the relocated Belleville Bulls. That was then, this is now. …[read more]
No bad dogs here
Opportunistically speaking, if only Hamilton was the host city for this year’s Memorial Cup tournament, which will be held later this month in Regina, Saskatchewan. …[read more]
Bulldogs bite back
Hamilton Bulldogs have drawn first blood in their Ontario Hockey League championship series with the top ranked Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Dog days of May
This has the makings of a real dog fight. Soo Greyhounds and Hamilton Bulldogs are unleashed with their collars off and eager to mark their territory as champions of the Ontario Hockey League. …[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]
Soo v. Hamilton schedule
The playoff dates for the best-of-seven, Ontario Hockey League championship series between the Soo Greyhounds and Hamilton Bulldogs have been confirmed. …[read more]
Frantic night in Houndtown
All it would have taken was an overtime goal from the upset-minded visitors and the season would have come to a stunning conclusion for the no. 1 ranked team in Canada. …[read more]
Seven Up
There’s nothing quite like quenching a playoff thirst than with the refreshing taste of a Game 7. Mmmmm. Bring it on, baby. …[read more]
Home sweet home
Put the pressure on. Force the issue. Take advantage of home ice. Firing it up in that fashion on Friday, Soo Greyhounds pushed Kitchener Rangers to the embers of the grill with a 7-3 sizzler before close to 4,900 partisan fans. …[read more]
Hamilton hums into finals
Hamilton Bulldogs can take a break and await the winner of the Western Conference finals between the Soo Greyhounds and Kitchener Rangers. …[read more]
Series math: 2 + 2 = tie
Depending on what side of the equation you are on, there are a number of ways to study the Ontario Hockey League playoff series between Soo Greyhounds and Kitchener Rangers. …[read more]
Hounds, Bulldogs in the lead
Could this be the year of the dog in the Ontario Hockey League? To be sure, Soo Greyhounds and Hamilton Bulldogs are the pick of the litter thus far in the playoffs. …[read more]
McKenzie’s his own man
He is not nearly as well known in the hockey world as his famous dad. But very few are. Besides, Kitchener Rangers general manager Mike McKenzie is making a good name for himself on his own. …[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]
Standing room only
I am not a press box guy. It has nothing to do with heights (well, maybe a little) or disliking someone who sits in media row. It’s just that I would rather stand among the fans to watch a Greyhound game, walk around the rink, take in the atmosphere and listen to the various comments of the passionate hockey souls of Sault Ste. Marie. …[read more]
Hounds fend off Attack
The hot dogs emerged as top dogs over the under dogs. A little mustard, a little ketchup, a little relish and the Soo Greyhounds finally downed the Owen Sound Attack. With a gulp. …[read more]