What is different about this firing?
Two days ago, the Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League fired head coach Greg Gilbert and replaced him with Moe Mantha. …[read more]
Slumping Flint Firebirds fire coaches
Mired in yet-another slump with just two wins in their last 10 outings, Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League have relieved head coach John Gruden and assistant coach Dave Karpa of their duties effective immediately. …[read more]
Moe Mantha’s bittersweet decision
It wasn’t easy for Moe Mantha to leave the expansion French River Rapids of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League to return to the Ontario Hockey League after a 10-year absence and take over as interim coach of the Saginaw Spirit. …[read more]
40 years ago in Greyhound history
They had missed the playoffs in each of their first three seasons as members of the Ontario Hockey League and fans and supporters of the Soo Greyhounds were becoming restless and impatient. …[read more]
Moe Mantha is new coach in Saginaw
Saginaw Spirit of the Ontario Hockey League has fired head coach Greg Gilbert and replaced him with veteran bench boss Moe Mantha for the balance of the 2015-2016 season, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Good old Greyhound goalies
The number of goalies who have tended twine for the Soo Greyhounds since they entered the Ontario Hockey League in 1972 stands at just over 80. …[read more]
Two old hockey friends meet up
It was 1980 and Paul Hendrick was a rookie sportscaster with CKCY Radio-TV in Sault Ste. Marie and Ken Porteous was a rookie goalie with the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
Greyhound GM needs to step it up
Methinks that Soo Greyhounds general manager Kyle Raftis needs to do a better job of providing better players for coach Drew Bannister as the Ontario Hockey League team moves forward. …[read more]
Wolves out on coldest night of the year
Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League paid a visit to the town’s Samaritan Centre on Tuesday as part of the fourth annual Coldest Night of the Year winter walk event. …[read more]
Hounds well-served by youth
This is a transition season for the Soo Greyhounds from which they are expected to return to Ontario Hockey League contender status in 2016-2017. …[read more]
Adam McPhail to Soo T-Birds
Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have acquired 1997 birth-year forward Adam McPhail, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Hounds make a pair of trades
Soo Greyhounds made a pair of moves at today’s Ontario Hockey League trade deadline, bringing home local product Frankie Pucci and dealing veteran Keigan Goetz. …[read more]
Big deal on OHL trade-deadline day
It’s trade-deadline day in the Ontario Hockey League and the Saginaw Spirit and Barrie Colts finalized a major exchange early this morning. …[read more]
Hounds draft pick commits to Lakers
Owen Guy, a 1998 birth-year centre who was selected by the Soo Greyhounds in the fifth round of the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft, has made a future commitment to play for the Lake Superior State Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
Otters return to the Soo
The team that knocked the heavily-favoured Soo Greyhounds out of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs last spring is back in town. …[read more]
Scouting 9-and-10-year old players
There just could be a future member of the Ontario Hockey League’s Oshawa Generals skating in our midst at Soo Pee Wee Arena. …[read more]
Culina staying with OHL Spitfires
Goalie Mario Culina will remain in the Ontario Hockey League with the Windsor Spitfires and will not be returning to the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Time for change in major junior hockey
It may be time to change the old guard that watches over major junior hockey in Canada and encourage the man who has held so much influence and power for so many years to begin the retirement chapter of his life. …[read more]
Frontenacs now a formidable force
Already the top team in the Eastern Conference — and one of the more-balanced squads in the Ontario Hockey League — the Kingston Frontenacs have become a formidable force with the recent addition of left winger Michael Dal Colle. …[read more]
Kingston pays price for Dal Colle
In a blockbuster Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today, the Eastern Conference-leading Kingston Frontenacs have acquired 1996 birth-year left winger Michael Dal Colle from the Oshawa Generals. …[read more]
OHL re-opens for business
Play has resumed in the Ontario Hockey League and the trade embargo has been lifted following the Christmas holiday break. …[read more]
Perlini has plenty of Soo support
He was born in Guildford, England and was drafted into the Ontario Hockey League out of Detroit, Michigan but Brendan Perlini will always have Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. as a home base. …[read more]
Coach leads Hounds with steady hand
He has a calm, relaxed approach and with his steady, stay-the-course leadership, Drew Bannister just might be the most-effective coach the Soo Greyhounds have had since Craig Hartsburg moved on after the 2007-2008 season. …[read more]
Voodoos to Battalion, with success
Pint-sized forward Steve Harland is beginning to make an impact with the North Bay Battalion as a 19-year old rookie in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]
A scribe’s OHL scribbles
Coaches come and coaches go and one coach who I would like to see return to the Ontario Hockey League is 1993 Memorial Cup champion Ted Nolan. …[read more]
OHL Wolves make another trade
Sudbury Wolves have acquired 6-foot-9, 240-pound defenceman Jarett Meyer from the Owen Sound Attack in exchange for fellow defender Trenton Bourque in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized early this afternoon. …[read more]
Keeping up with Bobby Jones
He may not be a high-profile guy but Bobby Jones is building up quite the record for longevity as an Ontario Hockey League coach. …[read more]
Inside the OHL rumour mill
A blockbuster trade in which the Niagara IceDogs acquired goalie Alex Nedeljkovic and defenseman Josh Wesley from the Flint Firebirds in exchange for goalie Brent Moran, three second-round draft picks and two third-round draft picks has fueled the Ontario Hockey League rumour mill. …[read more]
Wolves good for what ails Hounds
Sudbury Wolves provided a healing remedy for the Soo Greyhounds on Wednesday night. …[read more]
Greyhound goalies are C-minus
Drew Bannister, the first-year head coach of the Soo Greyhounds, is known as a positive person — albeit one who does not mince words. …[read more]
Races are on in the OHL
They are about a third of the way into the 2015-2016 Ontario Hockey League season and there is a certain amount of parity within the 20-member loop. …[read more]
Hounds can move over .500
Soo Greyhounds have returned to the .500 mark following a 2-1 Ontario Hockey League win over the visiting Kingston Frontenacs on Friday night. …[read more]
Here ‘n there
Around the rinks of the Ontario Hockey League, Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League and Western Collegiate Hockey Association: …[read more]
Waiting for another OHL shot
He has played in two games for the powerhouse Erie Otters — one last season and one this season — but having narrowly missed out on gaining a full-time roster spot, 1997 birth-year forward Frankie Pucci awaits another Ontario Hockey League opportunity. …[read more]
Saginaw adds seasoned winger
Saginaw Spirit has obtained 1997 birth-year winger Mike Davies from the Kitchener Rangers in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today. …[read more]
Questions surround Hounds
It’s a question that I am asked frequently these days: What’s the matter with the Soo Greyhounds? …[read more]
Statement from Flint owner
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a statement from Rolf Nilsen, owner of the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League, with regards to the recent firing and subsequent re-hiring of his coaching staff. …[read more]
News…views…around the rinks
News and views pertaining to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League and Lake Superior State University Lakers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. …[read more]
Around the rinks
Good day hockey fans, I am back from a three-day, mini-vacation to Detroit, home of my favourite (though I am not sure why) National Football League team. Time now to head out on a trip of a different sort and pay a visit to the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League, the Greater Metro Hockey League, the Great North Midget Hockey League, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, the North American Hockey League, the North American 3 Hockey League and the U.S. Premier Hockey League. …[read more]
Rest in peace, John Tavella
Left winger John Tavella played only one season in the Ontario Hockey League — but what a season it was. …[read more]
Eagles ink former Greyhound pick
Soo Eagles of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League have signed free-agent left winger Gordie Helmuth, who was a 10th-round pick of the Soo Greyhounds at the 2012 Ontario Hockey League draft. …[read more]
Bannister bench boss era begins
Drew Bannister may be a rookie head coach in the Ontario Hockey League but the 41-year old bench boss of the Soo Greyhounds has one thing that none of his players have — a Memorial Cup ring. …[read more]
Mav and Doc were full of Bull
I still remember when the Belleville Bulls entered the Ontario Hockey League as an expansion team in 1981 — and subsequently meeting an iconic pair who would become the colourful faces of the franchise. …[read more]
I began covering Hounds 40 years ago
The start of another Soo Greyhounds, Ontario Hockey League season has a way of bringing me back in time. …[read more]
60 years, for Petes sake
Peterborough Petes, a storied Ontario Hockey League franchise that exudes history, will be celebrating their 60th anniversary this 2015-2016 season. …[read more]
Petes acquire Adam McPhail
Sault Ste. Marie product Adam McPhail has been traded by the Saginaw Spirit to the Peterborough Petes in an Ontario Hockey League trade finalized earlier today, HockeyNewsNorth.com has confirmed. …[read more]
Soo T-Birds to Windsor Spitfires
Goalie Mario Culina — a good, old Croatian boy from Sault Ste. Marie — has signed with the Ontario Hockey League Windsor Spitfires as an undrafted free agent. …[read more]
Wolves seek path to winning ways
There is no place to go but up in the standings for the Sudbury Wolves. …[read more]
Another shot for Ryan Vendramin
Sault Ste. Marie native Ryan Vendramin is getting what could be a last chance to stick in the Ontario Hockey League. …[read more]