The mouth runneth over
High-scoring forward Ryan Moore may have let an unfortunate slip of the tongue get in the way of a possible playoff upset for the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Home ice shifts to Flint
Flint Firebirds have seized home-ice advantage from Soo Greyhounds with the opportunity to take control of the first-round, Ontario Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
Sunday success on the road
Hamilton Bulldogs and Ottawa 67’s both pulled off big Sunday afternoon road triumphs as playoffs continued in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Fired-up Flint fires back
Seventh-seeded Flint Firebirds served summons to second-seeded Soo Greyhounds tonight that they won’t back down in their first-round, Ontario Hockey League Western Conference playoff. …[read more]
OHL rookie goalie success
There are those who have their doubts and reservations about rookies being starters as goalies in the Ontario Hockey League. But no less than three rookies were Game 1 starters in the first round of this year’s playoffs — and all three posted victories. …[read more]
1-on-1 with Wolves AC
EDITOR’S NOTE: By virtue of a 5-2 series-opening road win, Sudbury Wolves have a 1-0 lead in their first-round Ontario Hockey League playoff with Oshawa Generals. Before Sudbury boarded the bus for Oshawa prior to Game 1, Amanda Zurkowski caught up with Wolves assistant coach Darryl Moxam. …[read more]
Friday night OHL lights
The clocks are ticking toward game time in five Ontario Hockey League playoff centers — Mississauga, Oshawa, Kingston, Owen Sound and London. …[read more]
Hounds speed past Flint
There was little doubt as to which was the better team. Second-seed Soo Greyhounds were in control from the outset, showing skill and speed to sprint past seventh-seed Flint Firebirds 5-2 in Thursday’s opening game of the best-of-seven, Ontario Hockey League Western Conference playoff. …[read more]
OHL playoff predictions
One man’s view — also known as one man’s guess — as to which teams will win the eight first-round Ontario Hockey League playoff series. …[read more]
OHL playoff schedule
Playoff pairings have been finalized and the schedules in all eight first-round Ontario Hockey League series have been set, including four games that will be televised on Sportsnet 360. …[read more]
Wolves, Generals from A-Z
We know how the story starts. Sudbury Wolves move into sixth place with a win over Mississauga Steelheads and will face the third-place Oshawa Generals. …[read more]
989-word playoff preview
Make no mistake about it. Flint Firebirds stand out as one of the more-improved teams in the Ontario Hockey League from the 2015-2016 season to the 2016-2017 campaign. …[read more]
Wolves can set playoff tone
Today matters. It really matters. Win their regular-season finale and Sudbury Wolves will play Oshawa Generals in the first round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. Lose and they better have set the tone for what the Wolves will want to be a long series with the Mississauga Steelheads. …[read more]
Great North draft prospects
Led by Northern Ontario Hockey Association player-of-the-year Camaryn Baber, about a dozen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget League could be selected at next month’s Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Hamilton’s playoff drought
It’s been said that good things come to those who wait. Well, after an absence of a mere 26 years, there will be an Ontario Hockey League playoff game in Hamilton next week. …[read more]
Respect for the Troops
It’s do or die today for the North Bay Battalion. And do still doesn’t guarantee anything for the desperate Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Baber, Porco among the best
A pair of Sault Ste. Marie products with 2001 birth dates who are top prospects for the 2017 Ontario Hockey League under-16 draft are among the recipients who have received minor midget player-of-the-year awards for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
Hello playoffs! Wolves are in
The two-year drought is officially over. Yes folks, the Sudbury Wolves are headed back to the Ontario Hockey League playoffs. …[read more]
Hey Wolves: What was that?
If you watched Thursday night’s crucial Ontario Hockey League game between the ninth-place North Bay Battalion and the eighth-seeded Sudbury Wolves, you might be asking yourself the same question I am — what was that? …[read more]
Wolves, Battalion on edge
There really hasn’t been a bigger series this season for North Bay Battalion and Sudbury Wolves than the one that will take place tonight and Friday — a home and home set between the Ontario Hockey League, Eastern Conference rivals. …[read more]
Only 2 from Soo at OHL Cup
The numbers tell the story. Of the nineteen 2001 birth-year players from the Great North Midget Hockey League who are representing Team NOHA at the OHL Cup Showcase Tournament, only two are from the Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
OHL down to the wire
As teams continue to jockey for position with the Ontario Hockey League into the final week of the 2016-2017 regular season, one first-round playoff matchup has been determined — Hamilton Bulldogs v. Kingston Frontenacs. …[read more]
Foget on fire for 67’s
Small-sized centre Mathieu Foget is a big reason why the surging Ottawa 67’s are on the verge of securing an Ontario Hockey League playoff position. …[read more]
Gotta hand it to the Hounds
They didn’t get much pre-season respect. They were picked by some in the media to finish as low as eighth place in the 10-team Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Full of Bulldogs
The latest venture of the Ontario Hockey League into Hamilton is giving the appearance of being a rather solid move. …[read more]
OHL playoff picture
Seven of the eight playoff spots are spoken for in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. But with less than two weeks remaining on the regular-season schedule, three playoff positions are still up for grabs in the Eastern Conference. …[read more]
Flint pots playoff spot
It’s official. After missing the Ontario Hockey League playoffs in their first season in Flint, the Firebirds are going to the dance. …[read more]
Storm slowly approaching
Guelph Storm will miss the Ontario Hockey League playoffs for a second straight season. But the Storm is poised to once again become a Western Conference factor. …[read more]
Good that Hounds can score
They will finish the 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League regular season with 90-plus points and with a half-dozen games to play, they are in position to finish as the no. 2 seed in the Western Conference. …[read more]
A feel-good survival story
16-year old cancer survivor Jake Murray has signed a standard player agreement with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
First W for northern kid
Northern Ontario product Cameron Lamour has his first win as an Ontario Hockey League goaltender — and against his hometown team no less. …[read more]
Poised for playoffs in Flint
Flint Firebirds are at the door waiting to punch their ticket into the Ontario Hockey League playoffs that begin in about three weeks. …[read more]
Pay minimum wage but…
So, there are those who think players in the Ontario Hockey League should be paid minimum wage for their services. …[read more]
North side to Saginaw
A solid case can be made that the future of the Saginaw Spirit is somewhat attached to the hockey rinks of northern Ontario. …[read more]
Hounds win, fans whine
They are winning. They are a contender. They are an Ontario Hockey League overachiever, these Soo Greyhounds. …[read more]
Colella a bargain for Flint
Among the many impact trades made by general manager George Burnett that have elevated the Flint Firebirds into a solid Ontario Hockey League team this season, the low-key acquisition of left winger Maurizio Colella has paid nice dividends. …[read more]
Troops, 67’s in war zone
North Bay Battalion and Ottawa 67’s are in a tie for the eighth-and-final playoff in the Eastern Conference with the Ontario Hockey League regular-season slate in the stretch run. …[read more]
Nice chat with Wolves VP
He is the man who oversees hockey operations as vice president of the Sudbury Wolves and Rob Papineau has definitive plans in place as the franchise moves forward under first-year owner Dario Zulich. …[read more]
Soo, Flint personify parity
The second-place and seventh-seeded teams in the Western Conference help define the parity that exists within the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Late-round Storm brewing
Guelph Storm rookie defenseman Nolan Makkonen is proof that the Ontario Hockey League draft can be a difficult yet rewarding science. …[read more]
OHL scouts eye Great North
Scouts from a number of Ontario Hockey League teams have casually confirmed they will have a presence in North Bay and Sudbury this weekend as the Great North Midget Hockey League begins semi-final playoff action. …[read more]
OHL coach to crown prosecutor
If the name of the crown prosecutor who won a conviction in the much-publicized Calgary murder trial of Douglas Garland rings a bell to Ontario Hockey League followers it’s because Shane Parker is a former coach. …[read more]
Flip a coin in Flint
They do not have a clear-cut no. 1 goalie yet the Flint Firebirds have managed to move five games above the .500 mark and in firm possession of a playoff spot in the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Wolves on Eastern edge
Their record remains below the .500 mark and they are teetering on the edge of a playoff spot yet the Sudbury Wolves are not far from fourth place in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Owen in Erie: 8-0, 2-2
Transplanted defenseman Owen Headrick has yet to experience defeat since relocating to the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League from the Lake Superior State Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
Gotta love the $2 beers
If I didn’t reside 300 miles from Flint I would be watching the Firebirds play host to the London Knights tonight and firing back a few $2 beers. …[read more]
Hounds home for three
Soo Greyhounds, with the third-most points in the Ontario Hockey League, will be in the comfort of home for three games this week, beginning tonight. …[read more]
Forrest on fire
Former Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League all-star Garrett Forrest is stating his case to be more than a backup goalie for the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Mental health and the OHL
It’s considered to be the top development program for the National Hockey League but the Ontario Hockey League also has a good history of trying to do good for its players away from the rink. …[read more]