Coaching vacancy in Kitchener
After one season as an associate coach with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League, Daniel Tkaczuk is moving on for a job within the National Hockey League organization of the St. Louis Blues. …[read more]
Timpano has the tools
He was the starting goalie as a 17-year old on the worst team in the Ontario Hockey League and as an 18-year old he endured another losing season with the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
New pact for Hounds GM
Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League have signed general manager Kyle Raftis to a three-year contract extension. …[read more]
Crowded crease in Sudbury
Sudbury Wolves have a pleasant problem preparatory to the 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League season with a crowded crease that includes two seasoned stoppers and a highly-touted rookie. …[read more]
New assistant coach in Oshawa
Former Ontario Hockey League defenseman Nathan McIver has been hired by the Oshawa Generals as a second assistant coach. …[read more]
Distant howl in Wolves country
After two long winters with barely a whimper, a distant howl can be heard as the Sudbury Wolves seek a return from the Ontario Hockey League wilderness. …[read more]
NHL camps full of Firebirds
While they just completed their first season in the Ontario Hockey League, the Flint Firebirds nonetheless boast five players who attended National Hockey League prospect development camps over the past few weeks. …[read more]
Legendary OHL rivalries
I have been commenting on and writing about the Ontario Hockey League since 1974 when I was a journalism student at Sault College — and thus have been around my fair share of personal and team rivalries. …[read more]
Oshawa to name new assistant
Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League are expected to name a new assistant coach by early next week, sources have told HockeyNewsNorth.com. …[read more]
Hearst to Saginaw
Maxim Grondin, a hulking 6-foot-3, 195-pound centre who hails from the northeastern Ontario town of Hearst, has signed with the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
High hopes for Hounds but…
It can be stated, without hesitation, that the Soo Greyhounds have a lot to build on from the 2015-2016 season preparatory to the 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League campaign. …[read more]
Knight moves
The best team in the Ontario Hockey League — you know, the one that fans from the other 19 centers love to hate — is in upper management transition. …[read more]
Fired up in Flint
Fueled by a flurry of off-season hiring, signing and trade moves, the Flint Firebirds have become better-positioned for their second session in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Wolves get first-round ink
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have confirmed that 2000 birth-year defenseman Owen Lalonde has inked a standard players agreement contract. …[read more]
Moving up the OHL ladder
Five up-and-coming teams that will be worth watching once the 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League season gets underway: …[read more]
Columbus day for Ottawa center
Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League have signed undrafted center Dante Salituro to a three-year, two-way, entry-level contract. …[read more]
Oshawa to Flint and a re-union
Jalen Smereck just got closer to home after being acquired by the Flint Firebirds from the Oshawa Generals in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized today. …[read more]
OHL trade market
There is some quality, mid-grade talent that either already is or could be made available in an Ontario Hockey League trade market where buyers and sellers are virtually always open for business. …[read more]
Knight shift to Wolves den
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League have obtained overage defenseman Aiden Jamieson from the London Knights in exchange for multiple conditional draft picks. …[read more]
Another defender in Ottawa
Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League have added yet-another young defenceman with the first-round selection of Russian defender Andrei Golikov at today’s Canadian Hockey League import draft. …[read more]
Czech out the Wolves big import
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League went for youth and size in today’s Canadian Hockey League import draft with the selection of Jachym Kondelik from the Czech Republic. …[read more]
OHL nods and nots
It takes all kinds to make the world spin within the high-profile, high-end, high-stakes, 20-team Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Good NHL draft year for OHL
No less than 48 players — representing more than 22 per cent of the 211 selected — were plucked from the Ontario Hockey League at the seven-round, 2016 National Hockey League draft which was held over the past two days. …[read more]
Firebirds are three for three
The new-direction Flint Firebirds now have their top three picks from the 2016 Ontario Hockey League draft under wraps. …[read more]
Coming together in Flint
It was a first season to forget in many ways but the signs are pointing in the right direction as the Flint Firebirds prepare for their second go-round in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Firebirds deal Finnish defender
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have confirmed a major transaction with the Mississauga Steelheads. …[read more]
Spirit shows in Damien Giroux
Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League is in the news again, this time relative to a rookie player from northern Ontario. …[read more]
Spirit lives on for 15 years
Boasting continuity in ownership and the upper chamber dating back to 2002 when it first became members of the Ontario Hockey League, Saginaw Spirit will celebrate its 15th anniversary this 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
New coach for Saginaw Spirit
After a lengthy process, relative unknown Spencer Carbery has been hired as the new head coach of the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
67’s sign five fresh faces
Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League ushered in the summer solstice today by signing five draft picks from the 2015 and 2016 priority selections process. …[read more]
It’s how you play-by-play
Listening to Dan Dickerson so expertly and casually broadcast another Detroit Tigers baseball game on Sunday reminded me of how many well-called Ontario Hockey League matches that I have tuned in to on the radio over the years. …[read more]
Old goalie is back in the O
Forty years after graduating from the Ontario Hockey League as a workhorse goaltender, Jim Bedard is returning as a coach. …[read more]
Voodoos vouch for OHL prospect
Powassan Voodoos did not have to venture far to confirm their first new player signing preparatory to the 2016-2017 Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League season. …[read more]
Finalizing with the Firebirds
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League earlier this week finalized two more positions on their staff. …[read more]
Goodwin leaving OHL Frontenacs
Well-respected assistant coach John Goodwin will not be returning to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League for a third season, multiple sources have told HockeyNewsNorth.com. …[read more]
Bowling Green to Sarnia Sting
Defenseman Jordan Ernst is bolting the Bowling Green Falcons of the Division 1, Western Collegiate Hockey Association for the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
North Bay’s Amadio is Soo’s best
North Bay Battalion forward Michael Amadio put the cap on a splendid four-year Ontario Hockey League career on Tuesday when he was named Sault Ste. Marie’s sportsperson-of-the-year. …[read more]
Holmes is where the Firebirds go
Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have followed up the recent signing of 2016 first-round draft pick Ty Dellandrea by inking second-rounder Hunter Holmes. …[read more]
OHL in summer session sizzler
No sooner had the London Knights put the lid on the 2015-2016 campaign by winning the Memorial Cup that the 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League season officially began with the lifting of the trade embargo on June 1. …[read more]
Decline of the dual OHL role
It used to be rather common for teams in the Ontario Hockey League to employ one man in the dual role of coach-general manager. …[read more]
By George, Flint is in good hands
Following the fireworks of a first Ontario Hockey League season in Flint, the Firebirds are moving forward with a new general manager who what he lacks in luster makes up for in level-headed leadership. …[read more]
Old Hound to scout for Beavers
David Legree, who as an overage goalie backstopped the Soo Greyhounds to their first-ever Ontario Hockey League playoff appearance in 1975-1976, is joining the Blind River Beavers of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League as a scout. …[read more]
67’s, Storm open trade season
Highly-touted goalie Liam Herbst, who has endured multiple surgeries to his hips and knees since being a first-round, Ontario Hockey League draft pick in 2012, has been traded, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Father, son and the big picture
Jeff Brown knows what it’s like to play and stay in the National Hockey League, having starred in more than 800 games at the highest level of competition. …[read more]
Caron keen on overage option
He is a late bloomer who was drafted into the Ontario Hockey League a year after his 1996 birth-date class — and he has aspirations of playing as an overage forward for the 2016-2017 season. …[read more]
New bench gig for Darryl Moxam
Darryl Moxam’s planned return to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League coaching ranks came to an abrupt halt earlier today when the soon-to-be-40-year-old was hired by the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League as an assistant. …[read more]
Firebirds 1st-rounder in like Flint
Forward Ty Dellandrea, who was a first-round pick, fifth overall at the 2016 Ontario Hockey League draft, has committed to the Flint Firebirds for the ’16-17 campaign, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Flint Firebirds hire OHL vet as GM
George Burnett has been hired as general manager of the Flint Firebirds and Joe Stefan has been given the job as assistant GM of the Ontario Hockey League team. …[read more]
Is UNH recruit headed to Hounds?
Corson Green is a big defenseman with a future Division 1, National Collegiate Athletic Association commitment — but the youngster seemingly still has some interest in playing for the Soo Greyhounds, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2015 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]