Hope for the OHL Hounds
They control their playoff destiny. Soo Greyhounds currently have occupancy of a post season position within the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League.
…[read more]A first for Charlie Schenkel
Overage goalie Charlie Schenkel returned to fine form on Friday in picking up his first win as a member of the Kingston Frontenacs.
…[read more]John Dean: stay or go?
He has been the head coach of the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League since 2018. And it can be argued that John Dean has been given the resources by general manager Kyle Raftis and team ownership to have ongoing regular season and playoff success.
…[read more]OHL trade deadline rehash
It was like a gust of a winter blizzard over the span of a few days. More than 15 deals got done just ahead of the annual Ontario Hockey League trade deadline, several of which can be termed significant.
…[read more]Overage goalie exchange
Soo Greyhounds have cashed in on overage goalie Charlie Schenkel in a big way. Not only are the Hounds adding overage goalie Nolan Lalonde from Kingston but they are also getting three future draft picks from the Frontenacs in return for Schenkel.
…[read more]Matsos is back in the O
Good player. Good coach. Good guy. Add it all up and David Matsos is back in the Ontario Hockey League, this time as an assistant coach with the Sarnia Sting. The now 51-year old Matsos won a Memorial Cup as a hard working forward with the 1993 Soo Greyhounds. He later had OHL success as a championship associate coach with the 2018 Hamilton Bulldogs that followed winning ways as an assistant with the Windsor Spitfires.
…[read more]Hounds trade Gibson
Soo Greyhounds are moving towards the future. The trading of Team Canada world junior defenseman Andrew Gibson to the Oshawa Generals is a major indicator that the Greyhounds are looking more to time ahead than the present.
…[read more]Happy New Year, Evan
Garden River First Nation product Evan Headrick made his long awaited Ontario Hockey League debut for the Kitchener Rangers on New Year’s Eve. And what a baptism celebration it was.
…[read more]Firebirds at mid season
Four successive wins — including two straight over their despised arch-rival Saginaw Spirit — have lifted the Flint Firebirds to the .500 level with the Ontario Hockey League at the Christmas holiday break.
…[read more]OHL trade winds blowing
The annual January 10 trade deadline is looming. And there is no shortage of guesswork and supposition making its way in and around the Ontario Hockey League rumour mill.
…[read more]D1 deal for Tyson Doucette
Sault Ste. Marie product Tyson Doucette of the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League has committed to Colgate University for the ’25-26 season. Colgate is a Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association program.
…[read more]Bloodlines of U16 NBT trio
The top three scorers for the North Bay Under 16 Trappers of the Great North Under 18 Hockey League all have deep roots through dads who played in either the Ontario Hockey League or at the Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association level.
…[read more]Sault side to Team Canada
Sault Ste. Marie is represented in a rather well rounded manner at this year’s World Junior Hockey Championships, which start on Boxing Day and go until January 5 and are being held in Ottawa.
…[read more]Raftis on state of Hounds
His team is 25 games into the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League regular season. And Soo Greyhounds general manager Kyle Raftis took the time to discuss the current condition and near future of the Red and White with Hockey News North.
…[read more]Hound picks in NOJHL
Recently assigned 2007 birth year goalie Reid Thomas and 2008 birth year forward James Elliott are two Ontario Hockey League draft picks of the Soo Greyhounds who are developing with rival teams in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
…[read more]What do Hounds do next?
The Greyhounds are seemingly not quite ready for prime time in the Knight time. In their second meeting with London this season, the Greyhounds were overpowered by the Knights, who out shot the home side by a ridiculous 43-13 margin en route to a 5-1 victory.
…[read more]Greyhounds nip Spitfires
Marco Mignosa scored in the first minute of play and tallied again just past the 8:00 mark and the visiting Soo Greyhounds never trailed in upending the Windsor Spitfires 3-1 in a mid week Ontario Hockey League match.
…[read more]Flint on a crease Bender
Ahead of three games in as many days this weekend the Flint Firebirds have added another goalie by way of an Ontario Hockey League trade with the Oshawa Generals. Flint has parted with future fourth round and seventh round OHL priority selections draft picks to get 6 foot 4 puck stopper Noah Bender from Oshawa.
…[read more]Sounds of the Hounds
The silence around Hound Town emanates from the so called forum moderator experts who had the locals written off after two losses to begin the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]Hounds, Spits, Spirit et al
Let us go here and there and around the Ontario Hockey League with stops in Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor and Saginaw.
…[read more]Noel Nordh heads north
Better late than never. Two years after being picked by the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League in the first round of the 2022 Canadian Hockey League import draft, 6 foot 2, 200 pound forward Noel Nordh is headed this way.
…[read more]Day after Day in Flint
Being a workhorse goalie is part of the routine for Nathan Day of the Flint Firebirds. Day has been in the net for every minute of Flint’s five games to begin the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]In the Nik of time
It only took three games for Sault Ste. Marie stalwart Nik Rossetto to score his first goal in the Ontario Hockey League as a member of the Brantford Bulldogs.
…[read more]Capt. Carlisle of the Hounds
Overage defenseman Caeden Carlisle will wear the captain’s jersey for the Soo Greyhounds for the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]Motor City to Hound Town
Keep an eye on this guy. Free agent pick up Erik Muxlow has the makings of being a noteworthy addition to the present and future of the Soo Greyhounds.
…[read more]Hounds in a rebuild house
Real time in the Ontario Hockey League — as in the ’24-25 regular season — is set for this week. In Sault Ste. Marie, first action for the Greyhounds is on Friday night when the Red and White plays host to the reigning Memorial Cup champion Saginaw Spirit at GFL Memorial Gardens.
…[read more]Watch out for Steelheads
The Ontario Hockey League is back in Brampton this season after an absence of more than 10 years. The Steelheads have relocated from Mississauga to Brampton, which is a distance of a mere six miles. And after an 84 point season in ’23-24 — which was good for fourth place in the Eastern Conference, just five points out of first — the Steelheads are a prime time contender for OHL glory in ’24-25.
…[read more]Take a hike, Ryder Cali
Soo Greyhounds have dealt no show forward Ryder Cali to the North Bay Battalion for a collection of future Ontario Hockey League priority selection draft picks.
…[read more]OHL teams of intrigue
The countdown is on. Opening face-off to the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League regular season is set for September 25 when the reigning Memorial Cup champion Saginaw Spirit plays host to the Windsor Spitfires.
…[read more]Erik Muxlow is a Hound
Free agent forward Erik Muxlow has signed with the Soo Greyhounds after being initially bypassed at the 2023 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft.
…[read more]Hounds add a third goalie
The Greyhounds have another goalie under team control. Reid Thomas, who was picked by the Soo in the 15th and final round of the 2023 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft, has been signed to a scholarship and development package.
…[read more]Cooke in the Flint kitchen
One of the youngest players from the 2023 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft has signed with the Flint Firebirds. Forward Brendan Cooke, who has a December 22, 2007 birth date, was an eighth round pick by Flint from the Soo Jr. Greyhounds of the Great North Under 18 Hockey League. He spent the ’23-24 season in the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League with the Blind River Beavers where he connected for 13 goals, 16 assists, 29 points in 55 games.
…[read more]25 Hounds still in camp
The Greyhounds have reduced their training camp roster to 25 players ahead of the Ontario Hockey League exhibition season. Five overage players are still around. OHL teams can only dress three overage players in a given game.
…[read more]Four from the Wild West
August is leaning towards September. Up first are training camps. Then exhibition games. Followed by a schedule of names, games, checkers and chess; not to mention all of the intrigue and anxiety that goes with debatably being the best development league on the hockey planet.
…[read more]Firebirds wheel and deal
Trade winds have blown through Flint. The Firebirds have been busy in the player exchange game ahead of next week’s training camp opening and the subsequent ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]State of the Hounds ‘D’
The graduation of standout import defensemen Kirill Kudryavtsev and Arttu Karki has created space and opportunity for returnees Caeden Carlisle, Andrew Gibson, Spencer Evans and Brodie McConnell-Barker to have enhanced roles on the blue line of the Soo Greyhounds come the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]Hounds are high on Holub
Right hand shooting defenseman David Holub has signed with the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. The Hounds took the 6 foot, 185 pound defender — he has a 2007 birth date — in the first round of this year’s Canadian Hockey League import draft.
…[read more]Greyhounds in the middle
Aside from the reigning champion London Knights — of course — there is no clear cut favourite for first place in the Western Conference ahead of the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League regular season. Two lower seed teams from ’23-24, the last place Windsor Spitfires and eighth place Flint Firebirds, should both be top five in the Western Conference in ’24-25. Then there are the Soo Greyhounds, the no. 3 seed from ’23-24 who were upended by the eventual Memorial Cup champion Saginaw Spirit in the second round of the playoffs.
…[read more]Gary Corbiere, gone 20 years
It was 20 years ago that my friend Gary Corbiere passed away in a tragic boating accident. To this day, it says here that, pound for pound, the toughest player to ever wear the Ontario Hockey League uniform of the Brantford Alexanders was none other than Corbiere, a medium size left winger who played minor hockey in Sault Ste. Marie and who went to become an accomplished lawyer.
…[read more]Liam Watson to Soo Eagles
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have signed a second defenseman who was a 2024 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft pick from the Soo Jr. Greyhounds of the Great North Under 18 Hockey League.
…[read more]Five OAs at Hounds camp
Jobs are on the line — and there to compete for — among the elders of the Red and White. No less than five 2004 birth year players will be competing for the three coveted overage spots when the Greyhounds begin training camp later this month ahead of the ’24-25 Ontario Hockey League season.
…[read more]Flugins to the Firebirds
Canadian Hockey League import draft pick Karlis Flugins has been signed by the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League ahead of the looming ’24-25 season.
…[read more]Harvard for Hounds 1st pick
Ryder Cali, chosen by the Soo Greyhounds in the first round of the 2024 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft, has secured a future Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association commitment from Harvard University.
…[read more]Cubs ink Wolves draft pick
Skilled skater Mason Walker is slated to develop with the Sudbury Cubs of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League come the looming ’24-25 season. The 2008 birth year forward was a ninth round pick by the Sudbury Wolves at the 2024 Ontario Hockey League priority selections draft.
…[read more]Mangone’s improbable ride
He has played in more than 200 games — regular season and playoffs included — since the Saginaw Spirit took him with the second pick of the 2021 Ontario Hockey League supplemental draft. To say that Sault Ste. Marie product Calem Mangone has overachieved would be an understatement.
…[read more]OHL sidebars & snippets
It was just a tad under two months ago that the host Saginaw Spirit scored a razor thin win over the Ontario Hockey League champion London Knights in what was an all OHL showdown for the 2024 Memorial Cup crown. But the restless hands of time are already ticking towards a new season and the projections and prognosis that go with it.
…[read more]Seven ’07s to watch
Our Hockey News North choice list of seven select 2007 birth year skaters from the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League includes two Greyhound forwards. In all, the skilled seven are projected to be impact players in ’24-25 after showing particular potential and promise as OHL rookies in ’23-24.
…[read more]Here comes the OHL
Hot fun in the summertime will soon turn to ice. For example, It doesn’t matter if you are up north in Sault Ste. Marie, in the mid to lower Michigan regions of Flint and Saginaw, or in the southwestern Ontario areas of London and Windsor, first pucks will drop on Ontario Hockey League training camps in late August.
…[read more]Connor Toms to Carleton
Former Soo Greyhounds and Windsor Spitfires defenseman Connor Toms is utilizing his Ontario Hockey League education package to begin his university schooling and playing career this fall.
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