Lamour shows Spirit in Rayside
A third-round pick of the Saginaw Spirit at the 2016 Ontario Hockey League draft, 16-year old goalie Cameron Lamour is spending a critical development season with the Rayside-Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League. …[read more]
Connor Hicks is back in the mix
As a center piece in an early-season trade with the Hamilton Bulldogs involving holdout forward Will Bitten, Connor Hicks was acquired by the Flint Firebirds to bring experience and stability to the goalie position. …[read more]
Flashback: Brantford Alexanders
Their history is one of modest length yet the Brantford Alexanders remain an iconic Ontario Hockey League franchise mainly because of the number of well-known players who wore their red-white-and-black jersey from 1978 to 1984. …[read more]
Western omelette
There’s a scramble for position within the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League where eight of the 10 teams have records well above the .500 mark. …[read more]
Ex-OHL star now practises law
It was a chance meeting in a Detroit hotel bar where I happened to be sitting at a table adjacent to where a former Peterborough Petes scoring star from more than 30 years ago was seated. …[read more]
Brown takes coaching break
Jeff Brown has confirmed that he is “taking a break” from his coaching duties with the Ottawa 67’s but will continue to work as general manager of the Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Wolves boast 3 NHL captains
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League not only help to produce their share of players for the National Hockey League but they are developing captain material as well. …[read more]
Surging 67’s step up to .500
The patience that Ottawa 67’s coach-general manager Jeff Brown has been preaching is starting to pay off for the surging Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Flashback: Centennial years
It was North Bay’s first Ontario Hockey League team, arriving from Niagara Falls in 1982 only to leave for Saginaw 20 years later. …[read more]
Flint Firebirds a fearless foe
They won only 20 of 68 games in 2015-2016 but through 20 outings thus far in 2016-2017 the Flint Firebirds already have 11 victories on the board. …[read more]
Wolves have coach vacancy
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League are on the look for a new associate coach following the departure of Drake Berehowsky to the Orlando Solar Bears of the East Coast Hockey League. …[read more]
Spirit rising
Given up for ghosts through the first 15 games of the 2016-2017 season, Saginaw Spirit has risen from the depths of the Ontario Hockey League to reel off three successive victories. …[read more]
Fortier loves hockey, enjoys life
Jason Fortier loves his gig as an associate coach with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League — but he enjoys his time away from the rink as well. …[read more]
One point down, 578 to go
Daylon Groulx has not only ascended to making his debut with the Owen Sound Attack after being a fourth-round draft pick this year but the 2000 birth-date forward has his first Ontario Hockey League goal and point. …[read more]
67’s add scorer from Spirit
Ottawa 67’s have acquired former Saginaw Spirit first-rounder Tye Felhaber in an Ontario Hockey League trade involving the 1998 birth-year forward and a total of seven draft picks. …[read more]
Who are the best 16-year olds?
The recent World Under-17 Hockey Challenge offered a glimpse at the best 2000 birth-year players on the planet including 24 who are rookies in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
WU17 Notebook
On the competition and overall skill level, the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge more than met the lofty expectations that were set for it. …[read more]
Goalies who need to be better
They are in their third full year in the Ontario Hockey League and as no. 1 goalies they need to be better than they have been thus far this season. …[read more]
Big points for Flint defender
Overage defenseman Mathieu Henderson has played a main role in the early-season showing of the Flint Firebirds. …[read more]
Kingston via Canisius College
Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League have obtained the rights to 1997 birth-year forward Josh Supryka from the Hamilton Bulldogs. …[read more]
My old friend Joe Drago
Besides getting to watch the best under-17 hockey players in the world at the challenge series that is going on in Sault Ste. Marie, the tournament serves as an opportunity to meet up with friends and acquaintances in the game. …[read more]
Saginaw has net worth
Saginaw Spirit may be languishing in the cellar of the Western Conference but mid Michigan’s Ontario Hockey League team has a valuable trade chip in its possession in the person of goalie Evan Cormier. …[read more]
67’s seek home remedy
Having shown they can win on the road, the Ottawa 67’s will be out to utilize home-ice advantage for the first time this season with games tonight and Sunday afternoon at TD Place. …[read more]
Battalion calls on a Voodoo
Forward Andy Baker, who leads the Powassan Voodoos of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League in goals, has signed an Ontario Hockey League contract with the North Bay Battalion. …[read more]
More ticks if Flint PP clicks
As the well-coached Flint Firebirds continue to be a feel-good story in the early going of the 2016-2017 season one wonders how much better they could be if their power play starts to click. …[read more]
Hot and not in the O
Some are hot. Some are not. Here are some of both as we ramble around the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Rayside to Peterborough
Iroquois Falls product Chad Denault, a 2000 birth-year right winger, has signed with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Flint gives a hint
It was my first opportunity of the 2016-2017 season to watch the Flint Firebirds live and the upstart Ontario Hockey League team lived up to well-followed expectations. …[read more]
Wolves of resurgence
They lost 100 games over the past two Ontario Hockey League seasons, finishing 20th and 19th overall in missing the Eastern Conference playoffs by a wide margin both times. …[read more]
Hounds out to halt home hex
Unbeaten in six road tilts this season, Soo Greyhounds will try to transfer that success to home ice with three games at the Essar Centre this week. …[read more]
Hounds get picks for Mercier
Soo Greyhounds have extracted a pretty-good return for overage defenseman Medric Mercier in getting a pair of draft picks from the Oshawa Generals. …[read more]
Wolves face hi-test Hamilton
Surging Sudbury Wolves will put their 4-2-1 record on the line tonight when they play host to the high-scoring Hamilton Bulldogs. …[read more]
Team Canada X 3 in the Soo
Rosters for the three Canadian squads — Team Canada Black, Team Canada Red and Team Canada White — that will represent the nation at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Sault Ste. Marie have been finalized. …[read more]
Timpano has an Erie feeling
So far so good for 1997 birth-year goalie Troy Timpano, who was acquired by the Erie Otters in an off-season Ontario Hockey League trade with the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Moore is more in OHL
There is an unlikely leader atop the Ontario Hockey League scoring chart in the person of Flint Firebirds forward Ryan Moore. …[read more]
Windsor wins with Culina
Free-agent goalie Mario Culina continues to provide net worth for the Windsor Spitfires in his second season in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Zack is getting on track
It wasn’t from lack of effort or desire that Zack Dorval struggled his first two seasons after the Kingston Frontenacs selected the hard-toiling center-left winger in the second round of the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Flint’s twine-tending tandem
Three was a crowd ergo two is company and Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have opted to go with erstwhile Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League standout Garrett Forrest and Connor Hicks as their goalies. …[read more]
Twin torches of the Wolves
Free agent rookie forwards from the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, twin brothers Darian Pilon and Drake Pilon have brought a fiery passion to the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
67’s add to kid corps blueline
Already featuring the youngest set of defensemen in the entire Ontario Hockey League, the Ottawa 67’s have added 1999 birth-year defender Kyle Auger from the Barrie Colts. …[read more]
First for the Flint Firebirds
1997 birth-year defenseman Jalen Smereck has become the first player from the second-year Flint Firebirds to sign a National Hockey League contract. …[read more]
Giving thanks to David Branch
It has been decades since David Branch first began his crusade to make the junior game safer by cracking down on fighting and checks to the head — and the Ontario Hockey League commissioner is slowly but surely winning the war on violence. …[read more]
Big numbers! OHL to CIS
The numbers do not lie. No less than 198 graduates of the Ontario Hockey League are beginning the 2016-2017 season with Canadian Interuniversity Sport programs as they pursue goals — on the ice and in the classroom — via their respective OHL scholarship packages. …[read more]
Wolves, Knights swap forwards
Sudbury Wolves and London Knights have completed an Ontario Hockey League trade involving a pair of veteran forwards. …[read more]
Flint is early surprise in OHL
Buoyed by the recent return of three players from National Hockey League training camps and boasting the top two scorers in the Ontario Hockey League, the upstart Flint Firebirds, with a record of 4-1, have been an early-season surprise. …[read more]
Writer’s selection: Hot and not
Who’s hot and who’s not as we peruse the Ontario Hockey League, the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and the Central Canada Hockey League: …[read more]
Jimmy D drops the puck
He now has ties to the Ontario Hockey League as a new minority owner and advisor of the Saginaw Spirit while continuing his duties as senior vice president for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. …[read more]
Rugged OHL road trip for 67’s
Ottawa 67’s will put more than 1,100 miles on the old bus by the time they play three road games in less 48 hours this weekend. …[read more]
Wheeling and dealing in Flint
Busy on the Ontario Hockey League trade front this week, Flint Firebirds made three transactions in all as general manager George Burnett did deals with the Hamilton Bulldogs, London Knights and Oshawa Generals. …[read more]